PowerPoint just saying that word sends chills up the spines of a lot of people in the business world because they think, Oh my gosh, it's gonna be so boring. I hate PowerPoint. I understand that feeling. But the problem isn't PowerPoint. The problem is bad PowerPoint. There's no such thing is PowerPoint is bad.
That's like saying television is bad. Well, sure, there is a lot of bad TV and there's the Jerry Springer show, but you know what, if you love World Cup soccer, and you can't travel to that country to watch it, watching World Cup soccer on a giant High Definition TV is great. So the problem isn't TV. The problem is what you're watching. Same thing with PowerPoint. There's no such thing as PowerPoint being awful.
A particular PowerPoint presentation might be awful, because the tools were not used effectively. Back to the analogy of television, you're gonna have the world's greatest Is TV but if it's hung upside down, or if it's not plugged in, it's not going to be a very satisfying experience. Or if you have it only on the channel of public access, and it's playing the lunch menus for the schools next week. It's not going to be great TV. Again, the problem isn't TV. It's what is on it and how it's being used.
The same is true with PowerPoint. You can give a fantastic PowerPoint presentation. And you can give a fantastic PowerPoint presentation every time but you also can give an awful presentation using PowerPoint. This course is going to teach you how to give a great PowerPoint presentation more important. It's going to teach you how to give a great presentation because rule number one in this course is there really is no such thing as a PowerPoint presentation. Now hear me Before you hit cancel and ask for your money back, what I mean by that is from the audience's perspective, they are never sitting in their seats, looking at you saying, Wow, I sure am glad this person is giving me a PowerPoint presentation today or a technical presentation or a financial presentation, or a formal presentation.
That's not how audiences think. From an audience's standpoint, none of those things really exist. The only thing from an audience's perspective that exists when it comes to speeches is there are two kinds. It's either good because it's interesting, relevant, useful, I'll pay attention or it's bad, it's boring. Let me pretend to pay attention. And really, let me check my email.
That's it. There's only two types of presentations in the world. So the first thing you got to figure out when you're going to use PowerPoint is not how to give a great PowerPoint presentation or how to even give a PowerPoint for entation your first challenge is how do you give an interesting, relevant, memorable presentation? With every presentation you give, there's really four things you're trying to accomplish. The first is you need to know how to look comfortable, confident, relaxed, because if you look scared, nobody's going to focus on your slides or your message or anything else. Now, the challenge for many people is when they're just speaking informally, or with no PowerPoint, they're gesturing.
They have good eye contact, they come across Well, the second way of that PowerPoint, it's sort of awkward and, you know, half looking at the slides behind them and the remote control and this and that or reading a script. So sometimes the PowerPoint actually brings people down and makes them worse on the comfort level. The next challenge in any presentation, Can people understand you shouldn't be that hard. But if you too quickly, or you're too nervous and you're racing or too soft in the way you speak. No one can understand you. The third goal of every single presentation is to people remember your messages.
Now, this is the hard part. For most executives, whether it's in business government, the nonprofit world, the hard part at any speech is getting your audience to remember your messages, with or without PowerPoint. And if you're going to use PowerPoint, does it mean your messages are going to be more memorable, it could be more memorable. If you use PowerPoint slides effectively. You could actually make it less memorable. If you just have a whole bunch of words and a whole bunch of text up there.
The fourth goal in any PowerPoint presentation is getting people to take the actions you want. You want them to approve your budget, too. make a purchase to sign a contract to invest money in you never lose sight of the fact that when you present in the adult business world, you're doing so because you want your audience to take a particular action with or without PowerPoint. So let's not lose sight of those four main goals in every presentation. And now, let's hop in specifically to how PowerPoint can help you do this