Business Presentations

It’s time—your time—to present a subject before others. Many others or few others; it doesn’t make any difference, does it? Did your boss schedule you to make a critical pitch before potential clients? Do you have to pitch a major, expensive project to the Board of Directors?

Do you think, “It doesn’t matter,” because PowerPoint® will protect me!” when you have to present a topic to a group? After all, you can do so many things with a PowerPoint® presentation to spice it up; to make it “sexy.”

Right.

That’s true, whether either of these describes you:

• You’re not comfortable speaking before the public
• You’ve pitched so many subjects before so many different audiences that you can do it in your sleep

What PowerPoint Can Do for You

Software is a tool; PowerPoint is software. Therefore, PowerPoint is merely a tool. An experienced speaker can use PowerPoint to great effect, supporting their presentation and enhancing the experience of their audience. PowerPoint will not make you a good public speaker.

For that matter, I cannot make you a good public speaker, either. You can do that, through practice.

PowerPoint is Not the Presentation

Marshall McLuhan is famously quoted saying: …the message is the medium…

There’s more to that than just that, of course.

Today, people refer to PowerPoint as in “This morning, I gave a PowerPoint Presentation!” In itself, that’s a problem, because the subject matter you present to your audience, not the tool, should be the presentation.

I can help. Absolutely.

Kill Your Audience? Not!

PowerPoint often seduces subject matter presenters into the attempt to kill their audience through the overuse of its bells and whistles.

I create a PowerPoint documents that:

• Support your subject matter
• Help you hold your audence’s attention
• Sell your selling point