Persistent Presentation Paradigm #9: “Clip art makes my slides look more interesting and sophisticated. A Dilbert comic can say more than thousand words.” Continue reading...

Persistent Presentation Paradigm #8: “The source of every information needs to be put at the bottom of a slide. It would be unprofessional not to do it.” Continue reading...

Persistent Presentation Paradigm #7: “Send me your presentation.” Continue reading...

Persistent Presentation Paradigm #6: “Slides need to be numbered to provide a reference for the listeners, so that they can refer to a specific slide later.” Continue reading...

Persistent Presentation Paradigm #5: “I can’t draw. Therefore I can not make my slides more interesting.” Continue reading...

Persistent Presentation Paradigm #4: “The best way to show competence in a presentation: put it all on the slides. Displaying all the detail and research proves that I know what I am talking about.” Continue reading...

Persistent Presentation Paradigm #3: “I don’t have time to make proper slides because I sometimes have only a few hours to prepare a presentation.” Continue reading...

Persistent Presentation Paradigm #2: “I have to play it safe, can’t afford to be vulnerable. I rather put everything on a slide — just to make sure.” Continue reading...

Persistent Presentation Paradiagm #1: “My company demands documentation slides, that’s just how things are being done here.” Continue reading...

Today we start a new series, called “Persistent Presentation Paradigms, or The True Reason Why I Bore My Listeners To Tears”. Given that most of the reasons of presentations going sour lie in wrong or outdated paradigms, we are in for some serious paradigm breaking here. Continue reading...