Why Companies Waste Thousands on PowerPoint—And Don't Rehearse

My own perception is the, the industry of PowerPoint has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. There's more design companies, there's more consultants and bigger companies. They are spending a fortune when it comes to actually paying outside companies. But more important, the time of executives, between the legal review and investor relations review and the CTO review of a deck, any one deck, at some point, if you added up the, the direct and indirect cost could be tens of thousands of dollars sometimes. And so my frustration is why are companies spending 10, sometimes $50,000 on a PowerPoint deck and yet spending zero time on a trainer being self serving now to actually rehearse the exec? Oh no, we don't have time or money. Well, you spent 100 hours between all the different executives touching the slide deck. And, and if you add up their time, some of them are charging 200, $500 an hour. If it's a legal counsel, they're spending in many cases in excess of $10,000, $20,000 on a slide deck and yet they don't spend time actually rehearsing it with a trainer. Do you have any advice, not necessarily to me, but to let's say younger presentation skills coaches of how they can get part of that business? Do they need to go into the slide building business to be a part of it? So you know something? What you said is so true. Okay, but there are exceptions.