Prosperous Project Management: What's worse that text on slides?

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Tips, techniques and pragmatic strategies for excellent Project Managers, Toastmasters and high personal achievers. Wayne Botha is a rare Project Manager, with passion for achieving results through Project Management, while improving inter-personal relationships, and developing Project Managers in the process. Wayne is a faculty member at Toastmsters Leadership Institute and Axia college of University of Phoenix.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

What's worse that text on slides?

If you subscribe to the Pow'Rful Process, and the accompanying philosophy of images in presentations, then you know that text on PowerPoint slides is bad. Very bad. What could be worse than text on slides?

What do you think? What could be worse that having text on slides? The presenter reading the text to the audience perhaps? Maybe having text on slides with the font too small for the audience to read?

These are bad slide design techniques, but I came across a new low-point today. Acronyms on slides. The slide read something like this "AG's in BU are now TLI for DEG".

Wow!! Text on slides is bad but at least your audience can re-read the slides at their own leisure. Unless your audience knows what these acronyms stand for in the context of your presentation, I propose that you work hard to find a simpler way to communicate your message.

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Name: Wayne Botha

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Wayne Botha is one of those rare people who can say he is a project manager, author and speaker and mean it. He is a past Area Governor for Toastmasters International and an enthusiastic Toastmaster. Wayne is a faculty member of Toastmasters Leadership Institute and has trained audiences in South Africa, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the USA. With an MBA in eCommerce, and a PMP certification, Wayne is sought out to speak at Toastmasters and Project Management conferences. Wayne's colleagues and friends often tease him about his South African accent.