I'm going to give you a whole lot of tips in this course on what effective PowerPoint is how to use it what it should be. But let's just take a timeout a minute and really clarify what a PowerPoint presentation isn't. It isn't the poor man's the poor woman's teleprompter. If it's one thing I encountered all over the world, six continents I've worked in is that people app salutely hated when a speaker reads to them. Admit it, you hate it, when a speaker reads to you from a PowerPoint slide. Because you can see the words up there, they're reading it.

So if I'm reading a slide, and you can read it, too, what I'm really saying is, Hey, I think you're so stupid. You don't know how to read. So I'm gonna read it to. That's brutal folks. Everybody hates it and yet the various things People who tell me they hate it end up doing it when you have to teach and they have time to prepare, and you know, I couldn't memorize it, and it's right there and I want to get every word just right. So I'm going to read it now.

If you're thinking of reading your PowerPoint presentation, call in sick. Just give us all of it, spare us the misery, okay? The PowerPoint slides are for your audience. They are never for you. If there's something you need to help you remember what to say next, use a good old fashioned piece of paper, use some notes. That's what I use.

Nothing wrong with notes as long as you keep it to a single sheet of paper and large font so you don't have to, you know, be doing all this stuff. So remember, the PowerPoint slides are not for your notes. Use good old fashioned piece of paper. For your notes. The PowerPoint slides are just for your audience.