Designing a powerpoint presentation can be the most enjoyable process for some and vice versa for some. The law is simple, if you enjoy doing your presentation, the chance is that you are going to enjoy presenting your presentation hence the audience as well.
Nowadays we are facing DEATH BY POWER POINT. Seriously it is a serious problem. We simply lost the POWER of our points(powerLESS!). Our audiences neither listen to our speech nor our presentation.
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Death by power point! |
Lets us hear the good news! You can make your power point presentation to be extremely POWER. How? I'll share with you the principles. The principles are easy to apply and to be understood. If you live the principles, you will see the positive changes. The principles have already passed the time test which means they are valid all the time.
Principle 1 : Vitamin or Water
If you were having a meal, what would you do after that? Taking a vitamin to boost your energy or drink some water to help with the digestion?
Most of us will choose water over vitamin as in this case, vitamin acts as a
SUPPLEMENT whereas water acts as a
COMPLEMENT. Supplement means
an extra or additional items whereas COMPLEMENT means
something that completes or goes very well with something; in this case water completes your meal.
Your slides are the same. You can choose to make you slide to be your complement or to be your supplement. Complementary slides mean you have to be there to explain the slides or to rephrase; the slides need you! On the other hand, supplementary slides mean the slides can talk on its own. Your presence or absence will not affect your slides. It didn't care!
The choice is yours. They are both correct, only the impact would be different. Death by power point usually comes from SUPPLEMENTARY slides whereas the true POWER point comes from COMPLEMENTARY slides.
To summarize, enjoy the slides below and you will see the different = )
POWER vs power
LESS point!