TJ WALKER - THE HABIT INFLUENCER - Personal Development | LIVE STREAM

12 May 2010 · 1 min

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TJ Walker critiques common PowerPoint misuse: dense, bullet-filled slides that are unmemorable. He advises presenters to focus speeches on a concise "water cooler" message, limit themselves to two or three core themes, and use a single image/idea per slide to make presentations more engaging and memorable.

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PowerPoint can be a great, powerful tool, but not when it's used like this. Look at this slide. Lots of bullet points, words, text, black on white. It's completely boring. There's nothing memorable about this. Now, the ideas are fine. Here the slide is trying to present the idea that your speech should focus on what's memorable to your audience. What's the water cooler message? How can you focus on two or three themes and not overly complicate things? So how could you have used PowerPoint in a more effective way to make this idea come alive? Well, focus on a few principles. Use a single picture, a single image, a single idea. So if you want to communicate that people should focus on a water cooler message in your presentation, then all you have to do is flash up this.