What's the most effective way to change slides during your PowerPoint presentation? Let's work from the worst and then get to the best. In my opinion, the worst way to do it, is to have some poor assistant administrative assistant Assistant Vice Prez, someone that works for you. You've finished one slide, you finished what you say. And then you're now saying, Now Jeeves, let's go to the next slide. It just seems like you are so full of yourself.

You're so important that you need your own caddy up on stage. I think that doesn't set the right message. It also kind of stops the presentation and puts a spotlight on the mechanics of you telling someone to advance it's awkward. It seems phony and it kind of seems like you just think you are a king or a prince or something. I don't like that at all. Now, a next thing people do sometimes They finish.

And then it's kind of like this befuddlement, they they're walking 10 feet over. What am I supposed to do? This is different from my own laptop fiddling around. That's not good either. And then there's the thing where they're holding a remote control but it's big and bulky. And it's like they're treating it like it's a bunch of eggs that could crack.

You want to do this with the least amount of attention possible. Now, if you're in front of a small group or you're sitting down, the easiest thing is just to hit the spacebar on the keyboard. That way you don't have to worry about remotes anything else. You're right there. You just hit the space bar and you can walk around the room. Come back and off.

All you have to do is hit one button. That's easy. Now I have no problem with remotes. I'm using a remote right now. What I do recommend is the smallest remote possible So that your hands can still gesture and you're not freezing your hand and destroying your body language and you want something so that all you have to do is hit advance. That keeps it simple.

You're not gonna have to sit there and study your remote, on and on and on. That's what keeps it simple.