Death by PPT or Death of PPT, which side are you right now?
Prakash Rao
Master Certified Coach (MCC, ICF) & International NLP Trainer | OD Consultant | Top 100 Influential Coach 2023 by World HRD Congress
Trainer pulls down the screen and turns on the projector. And the trainer is busy fetching the PowerPoint Presentation, favorite to all?, Everyone in a Big Ballroom is sitting and waiting for training to start. And someone shouts Sir/Madam, PPT is not visible. Trainer turns-off some more lights and draws every curtains in the room available to make it visible to the last guy/girl in the room. So the mood is set, and you can go off to sleep. But, wait, Oh My God!!! The PPT is not Working. The Technician, Electrician and Every guy in the room try their luck shakes off the wire, projector and laptop to make it right. There you go, nothings working, it's the 'Death Of PPT'. As you read this, let's maintain 2-minute silence for what just happened.
Here is a happy side of the story. PPT is working and working fine, lights are dim, trainer is busy reading from PPT and occasionally looking at participants. Some are making notes and few are dosing off; at the end of session, trainer has completed 102 slides for the day. Few woke up just now, few are clueless, more are confused and this is 'Death By PPT'. And this time just a 2-minute silence will not matter. What matters is 2-minute reflection as to what just happened now.
Death by PPT or Death of PPT, Are You Caught Between These Two? Has this ever happened to you? How much are you dependent on PPT? What happens when the PPT is not there or not working?
Did you know, you can make training more learning centric by using no/less PPT? How many times are guilty for not completing syllabus by end of the day? Did you know, Visual Aid can be created by other means of training techniques? In the last 5 years how many training have you done without a PPT? If the answer is '0' or 'few', then continue reading.
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6 年I have found that as soon as a powerpoint goes up, people instantly check out. If you have to use powerpoint, limit your slides to 3 brief points per slide and talk with people, ask them questions, engage them.
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6 年As a speaking instructor, I teach that it's not a SLIDE SHOW, which many people took PPT.? It's an occasional 'aide' to assist.? ?Power point itself is not the problem.
Senior Project Manager, Meeting and Event Support at The Davey Tree Expert Company
6 年PowerPoint is a tool, nothing more. It can be used to help you to better convey your message, to help you tell the story you want to tell, but it still just a tool. How it is used makes all the difference. If contractors do a lousy job installing kitchen cabinets or building a deck, do you blame the hammer and saw they used or do you think they really should up their skills before trying to use those tools. It's the same for PowerPoint or any presentation tool in existence. Too often, the presentation of results, the telling of the presenter's story takes a back seat to the research and work that went into developing it when communicating the results should be at least as important. If no one pays attention because you failed the presentation, the whole rest of the work is wasted.
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6 年An interesting article Prakash, for me the main value of PPT is about accessibility - if it isn't making your training multidimensional it serves no purpose. Good visuals - helping to make sense of your key message are valuable, as are all of the great methods you mentioned. I recently ran an event for teachers, and one of the delegates said at the end she had dyslexia, and that this was one of the first trainings she had been able to truly process because of the way the visuals supported key points.
President/Visionary at Radcom, Inc.
6 年PowerPoint can be a useful tool in a presentation - but should never substitute for the presentation itself. If it's used to provide illustrations that's fine, but the content of the presentation belongs with the presenter!