The PowerPoint Detox: Reinvent Your Slides And Add Power To Your Presentation
- 1h 51m
- Patrick Forsyth
- Kogan Page
- 2009
We all know the feeling of attending a lack-lustre, dreary and formulaic presentation where dense lumps of text are read verbatim from the screen. It is beyond tedious, and it is unsurprising that the phrase “death by PowerPoint” has entered the language. But it need not be that way. With a little time and effort you can add power to your presentations and do so simply.
The PowerPoint Detox is a straightforward, practical guide that will help you to prepare and use slides that will fit with your message and support it; add power to your presenting style; enhance your presentation with a visual element in a way that makes explanation easier and clearer; be more likely to be understood, make your message memorable and assist retention. It is designed to appeal to anyone who needs to use PowerPoint: new presenters and those with some experience, those who have had some training or read a book or two and those who have not.
With sample slides and plenty of examples reproduced in PowerPoint style, The PowerPoint Detox is a clear how-to book that will help you to add explanatory power, style and professionalism to your presentations.
About the Author
Patrick Forsyth runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy based in the U.K. and specialises in marketing, sales and communications skills. Writing is a significant part of his own work portfolio. He is the author of more than fifty successful business books (with translations into 23 languages). These include: Motivating your staff, Successful time management, How to write reports and proposals, Tough Tactics for Tough Times, Effective Business Writing and The PowerPoint Detox (all published by Kogan Page). He writes regularly for a number of business journals and for Writing Magazine, and devises and writes training materials.
In this Book
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The Powerpoint Detox—Reinvent Your Slides And Add Power To Your Presentation
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Author’s Note
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Preface
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Introduction: Stand Up Comic
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How Human Nature Affects Communication
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Presentations: The Slide/Speaker Duo
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What To Avoid
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Best Practice
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Afterword
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Appendix—Presenting Successfully—The Business Equivalent Of An Open Goal
