The PowerPoint Detox: Reinvent Your Slides and Add Power to Your Presentation

The PowerPoint Detox: Reinvent Your Slides and Add Power to Your Presentation

by PatrickForsyth (Author)

Synopsis

We all know the feeling of attending a lack-lustre, dreary and formulaic presentation where dense lumps of text are read verbatim from the screen. It is beyond tedious, and it is unsurprising that the phrase death by PowerPoint has entered the language. But it need not be that way. With a little time and effort you can add power to your presentations and do so simply. The PowerPoint Detox is a straightforward, practical guide that will help you to prepare and use slides that will fit with your message and support it; add power to your presenting style; enhance your presentation with a visual element in a way that makes explanation easier and clearer; be more likely to be understood, make your message memorable and assist retention. It is designed to appeal to anyone who needs to use PowerPoint: new presenters and those with some experience, those who have had some training or read a book or two and those who have not. With sample slides and plenty of examples reproduced in PowerPoint style, The PowerPoint Detox is a clear how-to book that will help you to add explanatory power, style and professionalism to your presentations.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 03 Mar 2009

ISBN 10: 074945511X
ISBN 13: 9780749455118
Book Overview: PowerPoint detox analyses presentations and the role of visual aids; communication and the psychology of putting over a point clearly; the slide/speaker relationship; what to avoid; best practice; experiments and resolutions for the future.

Media Reviews
PowerPoint is a great tool for presentations - used carefully. But it can go disastrously wrong, says, Patrick Forsyth.
Author Bio
Patrick Forsyth runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy based in the UK and specializes in marketing, sales and communications skills. He is the author of more than fifty successful business books (with translations into 23 languages). These include: Motivating Your Staff, Successful Time Management, Effective Business Writing and How to Write Reports and Proposals, all in the Creating Success series. He writes regularly for a number of business journals, and for Writing Magazine, and devises and writes training materials. He has acted as a book reviewer for Amazon and The Good Book Guide, and also undertakes copywriting work, and the production of corporate publications, for clients in many industries.