How to avoid death by Powerpoint

If really powerful, a presentation can have a huge impact in a change process and contribute very clearly to change people's behaviour. Yet, we all know the difficulty of not falling into the trap of doing indigestive powerpoint slides with lots of bullet points, complex charts etc. In fact you could say it is quite simple to make complex slides and very complex to make simple slides.

Most people have also attended some sort of training on the subject and have learnt the ground rules like one message per slide, limited number of bullet points, visual aid, clear storyline etc.

For something that goes much more beyond those basic rules, www.vizthink.com offered last June an excellent webinar on powerful presentations by Nancy Duarte who actually advised Al Gore on his Inconvenient Truth presentation.

Link to the webinar: http://www.vizthink.com/blog/2008/06/18/webinar-creating-powerful-presentations-with-nancy-duarte/