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12 Steps to Completely Fail Your Presentation: A Guide to Disastrous Slides

This tongue-in-cheek guide humorously outlines the worst practices for giving a presentation. From ignoring your audience to using endless bullet points, convoluted texts, and distracting animations, each step is designed to ensure your audience loses interest. Explore how to clutter your slides with irrelevant information, employ confusing fonts and colors, and make common errors that undermine your message. Perfect for those looking to understand what not to do at a presentation, this guide is a lighthearted take on improving your presentation skills by recognizing pitfalls to avoid.

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12 Steps to Completely Fail Your Presentation: A Guide to Disastrous Slides

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  1. KILL your presentation - in 12 steps -

  2. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1 – Completely ignore who is your audience.

  3. 2 • Use • bullet • points • all • the • way, • losing • relevancy Do not use bullet points in any way and, instead, write long texts in very small prints that someone will never, ever, be able to read until the end. The need to insert the biggest possible amount of the details reveals the lack of mastery of content by the speaker, who uses the slide as a crutch to support and as a source of consultation for not forget to say everything that needs to be said. Immense paragraphs with endless explanations that could be made orally by the presenter are a great way to make your audience fall into sleep. Technical and detailed explanations accompanied by huge graphs and tables filled with tiny numbers, too, are a perfect recipe to horrible slides. The alignment "justified" aid, even more, making the exercise to read that text a real torture. Well, if you managed to get this far, you may be wondering what is the size of this font that is both demanding such effort in reading, it is the Trebuchet MS 15. or

  4. 3 – Use lots of animation and sound effects!

  5. 4 – Use backgrounds that make it difficult to read.

  6. 5 – Create slidesmixing BIG, small anddifferentstuff!

  7. 6 - Use severaldifferent “cool” fonts. Use asmanyas Possible! Colorful is sobeautiful!

  8. 7 – Use Clip Art.

  9. 8 –Commit errors in spelling, grammar, concepts or data! http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/31321.jpg

  10. 9 –Read the slides. http://swissmiss.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/06/yawn.jpg

  11. 10 – Approach controversial issues! • Politics • Religion • Sex

  12. 11 – Be funny, whenever you want! https://fmx.cpa.state.tx.us/fm/tsabaa/sum2006/pics.php?start=16

  13. 12 – Re-think the content, duringthe presentation.

  14. Effective Presentations Questions? Get in touch. Pedro Mello +55-11-9942-6059 pedmello@uol.com.br apresentacoeseficazes.blogspot.com

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