Please Send Me Your Presentation

   if you're just going to read it to me!

   People that read their PowerPoint presentations bullet by bullet kill me. Talk about a cure for insomnia. If you are not creative enough to come up with something else to say while your slides full of text are up on the screen you probably should not be the presenter.

   There are a number of very solid guidelines and strategies out on the internet (which are well-documented so I won't bore you with the details) for making your presentation something people will (A) stay awake through, (B) retain for more than 5 minutes after its conclusion, and (C) maybe even benefit from!

   So do yourself and your audience a favor - spend half the time you would normally spend typing up way too many words on your slides and instead go drink a beer the night before. Then when you get up to present the next morning you'll have to take your summarized bullets and flesh them out on-the-fly. Guess what? You'll probably present the ideas much more understandably and both you and your audience will come away feeling better for it!