Prosperous Project Management: Red Flags in your slideshow

Prosperous Project Management

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.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Red Flags in your slideshow

When you are presenting with PowerPoint, monitor what you say. If you find yourself using any of these terms, then you need to review your slides and make changes. Why do you have these slides on the screen if you make excuses with these phrases?

- I am just flipping through this slide quickly
- We already covered this slide in previous discussions
- You can't read this slide, but the text says ...
- You can't really see this picture, but this is really a picture of ...

And the ultimate excuse - This slide is a continuation of the list from the previous slide. What !! Not only do you have a list of bullet points, you are even continuing your list onto multiple slides.

From today commit to listening what you say when you present with PowerPoint. Are you making excuses for your slideshows? If so, then fix your slides and stop making excuses. Your audience deserves it.

Labels: PowerPoint, PowerPoint Images

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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.