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5 Tips for Overcoming

“Death by PowerPoint™”

Presented by

Ellen Dowling, PhD

Tip #1:

Don’t script—

Make a “storyboard”

with the

Presentation Diamond™

OPENING

OBJECTIVE

POINT

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QUESTION & ANSWER

CONCLUSIONCLOSING

(If needed)

POINT

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Tip #2:

Engage your audience.

Engage your audience.

Engage your audience.

Engage your audience.

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?

Who are you and why are you here?

Get into groups of 5 people. Then follow these instructions:

1.Put your right foot in.2.Put your right foot out.3.Put your right foot in and shake it all

about.4.You do the hokey-pokey and you turn

yourself around.

That’s what it’s all about!

How will you use what you have learned back at work?

Quick! List 5 more ways to engage your audience during a PowerPoint presentation!

Tip #3:

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

Tip #5:

5 Tips for Avoiding “Death by PowerPoint™”:

1.Use the Presentation Diamond™.

2.Engage your audience.

3.Keep it simple.

4.Add humor.

5.Don’t use PowerPoint at all!