I know you've seen somebody like this, I'm sure there are people like this in your organization or your industry could even apply to you. You've seen this person, speak present. And during a question and answer session, they're on fire. Everyone's sitting on the edge of their seat. They're interesting. They're compelling.

They're giving examples, a little humor, easy to understand, follow and remember, and yet this very same person stands up to give a so called formal PowerPoint presentation. It's dry, it's boring. Everybody's falling asleep or checking their email. What's the difference? It's not that PowerPoint is boring. It's that the things that worked for that person when they were answering questions being interesting giving examples, giving case studies, bringing in humor, being conversational.

They took those things and strip them out. They started using the PowerPoint. And the real key to this is keeping the good stuff you have from the q&a session, or any non PowerPoint speech continuing to do that, and then simply adding slides at the appropriate time to amplify and enhance your presentation. So the problem is in PowerPoint, the problem is, we tell ourselves, oh, now that I'm using PowerPoint, I have to throw away all the normal good things I do. Looking at people being interested in giving examples, case studies stories. Don't make that mistake.