210 likes | 342 Views
PRESENTATION MAGIC!. Secrets from the Powerpoint Guru. Checklist to Victory. Use your template! Don’t just make random text boxes! Loading up a single slide with too much text/graphics/graphs makes us all look stupid Use one font; maybe two When it doubt, split content across several slides
E N D
PRESENTATION MAGIC! Secrets from the Powerpoint Guru
Checklist to Victory • Use your template! Don’t just make random text boxes! • Loading up a single slide with too much text/graphics/graphs makes us all look stupid • Use one font; maybe two • When it doubt, split content across several slides • Simplify, delete, consolidate and delete again • Just line everything up!
Perspective Nests Use your Template
Scrambled Sunnyside Over-Easy Bennidict
Does this make you feel comfortable? Source: McKaplan-Reid II, 2006, p.342-9
Collect the Material • Survey your office – look for content that supports your main thesis • Twigs, branches, ribbons, copy paper, coffee filters, elastic bands, etc. • Scan your Outlook™ Inbox for “Inspiration” • Perhaps a co-worker has summed it up better than you could have • Dry pitch it to a low status fellow employee • Go out to the loading dock, the cafeteria kitchen, the maintenance room, the front security kiosk
Plan for Yesterday Salmon Arm Cutlass Supreme Quadra Yellow Duck Source: Victoria / Rees SWM 97
Idea Zits Do Not Overload
Inspiration Ammunition • Anywhere, anytime, you can steal • Look around the office, it might surprise you what you can take • No one will tell on you • Trouble, like the coffee machine, is a stainless steel umbilical cord • You are not a farm hand; you do not milk cows for a living
Focus Puddles Use One Font, Maybe Two
Life Advice Scar Zone Odor Barrier Bikini Face High Gear
Decision Thieves Simplify and Consolidate
38 052 692 488 102 93 493 Sleep Close to the Washroom CHOICES YOU CAN MAKE Source: Yam Slim & Doub 257d-843b
All You Need to Remember Source: Lorem Ipsum 12994-4
Moving Forward • They will not get away with this • You will make them pay • If it was up to you, it would be up to you • No one will stand in your way • What do they know anyway? • Everyone not you is “Pure Idiot” • Be Professional, always
Failure Fireworks Just Line Everything Up
The Wizard of PPT Cubby “Master Slide” Greenhurst The Powerpoint Guru Igniting the presentation world for more than half a decade, “The Guru” has weaved his unique brand of magic throughout the B2B, advertising, medical, financial and corporate sectors. RFP’s, new product launches, conference speeches and more are all fair game when “The Guru” is unleashed upon your copy decks. Never lose a pitch again! YOU CAN BELIEVE IN MAGIC AGAIN!