Presentation skills ~ tellingpeople

OMG.  With the best will in the world, I can’t see this as an overall good thing.

At it’s best, PowerPoint is a fair-to-middling tool, woefully often mis-used, and giving people more gadgets is going to result in more really, really bad presentations.  That’s not to say there aren’t positive uses too, just that my experience I’d risk a bet that more often than not it all ends in tears…..

Oh, no… wait….. that’ll be more work for me as a presentations trainer! Ah, I take it back…. it’s a good thing! 

More  seriously, if you’re tempted to get into this kind of gadget/gimmick add-ons to your PowerPoints, remember to ask yourself if you really, really need it.  If not, it’s just a vanity on your part and a distraction on the audience’s.   Besides, you still need to have a really good recording voice to get things worth listening to…..