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Discover five effective tips for enhancing your PowerPoint presentations and keeping your audience engaged. Presented by Ellen Dowling, PhD, this guide emphasizes the importance of creating a storyboard instead of scripting, actively engaging your audience, striving for simplicity, adding humor, and considering the option of not using PowerPoint at all. Transform your presentations from dull to dynamic, ensuring your message resonates and captivates your listeners. Say goodbye to “Death by PowerPoint™” and hello to impactful presentations!
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or 5 Tips for Overcoming “Death by PowerPoint™” Presented by Ellen Dowling, PhD
Tip #1: Don’t script— Make a “storyboard” with the Presentation Diamond™
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Tip #2: Engage your audience.
Where is the Rock of Gibraltar?
If a train leaves the West Coast going at 50 mph, and another train leaves the East Coast at the same time, going at the same speed, where will the 2 trains meet?
Get into groups of 5 people. Then follow these instructions: • Put your right foot in. • Put your right foot out. • Put your right foot in and shake it all about. • You do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around. • That’s what it’s all about!
Quick! List 5 more ways to engage your audience during a PowerPoint presentation! engage
Tip #3: Strive for simplicity! Keep it simple. Simple is best. Simplify! Simplify!
Tip #4 • Add humor: • Verbal • Visual
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticize them, you’ll be a mile away and have their shoes.” Jack Handey
5 Tips for Avoiding “Death by PowerPoint™”: • Use the Presentation Diamond™. • Engage your audience. • Keep it simple. • Add humor. • Don’t use PowerPoint at all!