Another word about PowerPoint in team presentations, in my experience have far too much energy is spent on having the consistent look and the branding destroyed to the bottom. And everyone having the exact same number of bullet points. That is the wrong approach. The only reason you're using PowerPoint is to make your ideas more understandable to the audience. So I'd much rather you use different styles of PowerPoint. And yet, the images you use actually resonate with your audience.
They're understandable, they're memorable. And then if each one of the speakers has a whole lot of data, put that together in a document a Word document, it could be a PowerPoint document, email it in advance handed out email and afterwards. But I'm telling you right now, if you want your team presentation, to follow a script, and the script is the PowerPoint and you're basically Kind of half talk into it kind of referring to it. kind of always looking at notes back up here, your group presentation is going to be awful. To be boring. People don't like to read bullet points on a screen 2030 feet away on paper or talking to them.
So I'm sorry, I do realize that most corporations that is the status quo, have lots of bullet points for the group presentation. And we have this following pattern of everyone sticks to the script. I tell you, nobody in your audience cares about your script. All they care about is do something interesting, useful and relevant to say to them. And are you saying it in a way that's memorable? Are you showing them something that's memorable?
That's the only thing your audience cares about. You want to be a great group presenter or solo presenter. You got to focus on what your audience wants, not what you want, not what your corporate mandate traditionally is you've got to focus on your audience. So if you're going to have a PowerPoint, again, I would recommend you have two separate PowerPoints one, that's lots and lots and lots of notes, words text, bullet points, email to people handed out. Another one that has images. And you can all work from the same deck.
But if you're going to use the images, all of you need to be on the same page. It looks odd for one person have great, interesting visuals that are fascinating. And then the next person comes up and it's a white screen and a whole bunch of black texts with bullet points. That's a bit jarring. It's not that you all have to have the same styles. But if someone has a really good, interesting, memorable visual style, and someone else is presenting in a way that reminds everyone in the audience is the worst possible data dumping droning speaker, that's a real downer.
Now you can say, well, TJ we're a team and different people have different styles and wants and needs and Smithers over here he's more comfortable with all of his notes on the PowerPoint I get attacked. I don't care about Smithers. Sorry if that sounds cold or cruel, you know, I care about the audience who has to listen to Smithers, that prospective client, they got to hear pitches from five other firms. And Smithers is going to bore them if he sort of stands up and reads bullet points. So my recommendation, have a PowerPoint document that you email the people handout, but the PowerPoint that you're projecting, use images and have everyone on the team use it because if even one person insist on boring text, it's gonna really leave a sad sour taste in the mouth of your audience.