English, Education, Presentation skills, Corporate, Business
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So this is the death of death by a Power Point through corporate world. We seem to accept these poor presentations. You look around the room and you just see people getting bored, paying no attention, perhaps looking at their phone and we seem to go back to our desk afterwards and we think, oh, we've got a presentation to do as well. So we create an equally poor presentation. So what I'm going to show you is how to avoid that. So this slide here is apparently from one of the top universities in the world advising students and staff how to do powerpoint, but it's actually very, very cluttered. It's the same boring text that you're probably familiar with sleeping through in your own workplace. And as you can see, this one's not much better. It's from a lesser known university but still very cluttered and very boring to look at. Sadly, these champions of presentations were branded by one website as amazingly beautiful business presentations. Now, while they look like the typical professional corporate presentation, they're also a great cure for insomnia. I'm sure you've slept through one of these bad boys at some point in your professional career, cognitively, these are a disaster for your audience unless of course, your plan is not to present but just to send your audience to read in their own time by email. This one is just great. I think the creator must have been semi blind to not realize that the text is hard to read. The text isn't aligned. It's just an absolute mess. And this slide is apparently the worst Power point by a CEO in 2010. Have you ever been given a presentation like this in your workplace or worse? Still? Have you ever given a presentation like this? And this has to be the mother of all bad presentations. This is actually the un describing the situation in Afghanistan. I guess you can probably read from this, that it was just an absolute mess and no one really understood what was going on. Take a look at this slide. Now, here we have the typical corporate slide we're all familiar with sleeping through. We've all had this torturous extreme boredom that makes you really think your life. Why did I choose this career? This is so boring, but it's got bullet points limited text, a supporting image. And you know, this is what it, how it needs to be. But think about this. Have you ever tried to read when someone is talking to you? I mean, what are you meant to do here? Read or listen, multitasking is a myth. Task switching is a reality and it's hugely ineffective. In fact, when you have slides like this, 90% of what you have said is gone after 30 seconds to illustrate this. Have you ever been to the airport? And they give you a ticket and you're looking at the gate number and you've got your seat number on there as well. You put the ticket back in your pocket because you know it's gate 12 seat 34 C and then you walk over to the gates, you see a sign and it says to the left gets 1 to 15, get 16 to 30 to the right. But what gate are you? But you should know this. You've already seen it on your ticket. No, you don't know it. Do you, you know, you don't know it, time to get that ticket out again, you walk a bit towards the gate again and you know your tickets coming out of that pocket before you get to the gate just to make sure that you're at the right gate number. Then once through the gate, you check your seat number again as you board the plane. On average, you will check your seat number from your ticket six times before you sit down. Now, the sad thing is this ridiculously poor memory that we have for airplane tickets is the same pathetic memory that we have for powerpoint presentations or keynote, whichever is your preference. But either way our memories are **** poor. If companies would have as little respect for business as they do for presentations, the majority would have gone bankrupt. That's from John J Medina. He's a world leading molecular biologist with special research interest in genes involved in human brain development. And he's the author of the book series Brain Rules. I think he knows what he's talking about. Really.