Tag Archives: Death by PowerPoint

‘Letter B’

By Phil Stella | Published: November 3, 2014

Your laptop or PC keyboard has 26 letters on it along with numbers, symbols and punctuation marks. When that computer is connected to a projector to run PowerPoint slides, my favorite is Letter ‘B’. Curious? … read on. Read More »

How to Avoid ‘Death by PowerPoint’

By Phil Stella | Published: September 1, 2013

How you use speaker support slides to reinforce and support your message has a direct impact on accomplishing your audience-centric outcomes. PowerPoint – or other similar software packages – has the capacity to provide you with efficient, effective and attractive slides. But, how and why presenters use this great tool makes all the difference. So, let’s add a few new or different tools to your Presenter Tool Kit and share PowerPoint Best Practices. To get us in the mood, let’s discuss Worse Practices first.

How many of you have been the victim of ‘Death by PowerPoint’? I see a lot of hands going up. Remember, it’s not the fault of the software, but of the user. PowerPoint will do most anything you ask it to do – even dumb things. It has user-friendly capacity, but no taste, soul or intelligence … yet. Read More »

Laugh thru the Pain

By Phil Stella | Published: December 2, 2012

Too many of us have to endure ‘Presentations from Hell’ too often at work. So, enjoy these two clever YouTube clips to help you laugh thru that pain:

1. Lots of amusing hints from Don McMillan about ‘Life after Death by PowerPoint’:

 

2. And ‘Every Presentation Ever’ is why I love coaching people how not to be like this guy:

 

No need to thank me … it’s part of my job.