This is a beginning public speaking course. So you don't have to use PowerPoint. In fact, you don't ever have to use PowerPoint, the greatest speakers in the world typically dump now, I'm not anti PowerPoint. I use PowerPoint. So my best friends are PowerPoint. But I don't want to spend a lot of time on here.

Here's the rule of thumb for PowerPoint. If you're going to use PowerPoint, it's not about maximum of three bullet points or 10 words per slide. Those are not the rules you need to worry about. The rule of thumb is, can someone in your audience look at your slide, instantly understand what it is what the message is, and do they remember your message? That's the only thing you have to worry about. What that means is you need to narrow it down to one idea, per slide.

And to use images, not text. Now I realize in your organization, your business, you probably see people Do it differently, you probably see a whole bunch of bullet points and lots of complexity and complex graphs. How's that working for you? How much of that? Do you really remember? So rather than taking beginning steps of how to make really bad, boring PowerPoint the way everyone else does, I want to make your life simpler, easier.

Number one, you shouldn't have to use PowerPoint, but if you do, one image per slide, one idea per slide, do that. And no one's gonna think you're a beginner in public speaking they're gonna think you're great.