Death By Powerpoint - Jon Torrens

I’ve started a taskforce.

A taskforce of one, but still a taskforce. Our (my) mission will be to attend presentations and heckle the bad ones. This was inspired by a fairly awful presentation I attended recently. It had:

Too many slides
Too much information per slide
All the spoken information written in full
So much content it resulted in information overload, and went over its time

In short, it was textbook ‘death by Powerpoint’, a casebook study on how not to do it.

I thought this stuff was elementary, and that everyone knew what to avoid. But now I feel differently; now I realise that if we’re going to have presentations that don’t bore, confuse and frustrate everyone, there needs to be something of a revolution. Are you with me?

If you’re not, then:

Please don’t waste your audience’s time in the ways above; instead show some consideration and thought in what you’ve prepared.
Watch out for the taskforce.

(Final note on images: Using an image like the one at the top and talking about something like ‘fitting together’ is tedious. Don’t do it.)

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