I HATE folks that stand up before meetings to "present" and proceed to read from their 10 point font that they have placed on slide after slide.
Not only is this "death by powerpoint" - it serves the presenter poorly since no matter how dynamic they might be - most people over the age of 7 in the audience can READ their slides faster than the dman fool can drone through them.
A presentation is an opportunity to tell someone something useful - to give them information that they did not already know - help them avoid a trap they are already walking into - or show them how to do something they can not accomplish today.
A fantastic book regarding one of the great communicators of the last 25 years is JACKED UP by Bill Lane - former speachwriter for Jack Welch at GE.
GE's culture was about learning from best practices - not a cliche that I still associate with a former colleague known as Best Practice Brad that figured his lunch order, hair gel and fingernail cuttings should be collected and stored in the company archive with the same reverence as the Magna Carta - but the real opportunity to share something that IS working with others in the organization as quickly as possible.
Lane's point is that being ON MESSAGE - being consice - being on topic and being USEFUL should the the focus of EVERY presentation....
and he is right!
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Hey, this is the funniest story I have ever read on the Onion and coincidentally enough, actually ties into with what you are saying.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30903
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