Creative PowerPoint Slides for Public Speeches

00:00 I love PowerPoint.

00:03 It's the greatest tool ever.

00:05 It is fantastic for speakers and great for audiences.

00:08 Do you agree? Well, I'm being a little bit facetious.

00:18 I do like PowerPoint.

00:19 I use it myself, sometimes five days a week.

00:22 However, the big problem with most PowerPoint presentations is they're so deadly dull, all they do is put the audience to sleep.

00:36 They have become sleep aids because they are nothing but a boring data dump of text. They become the teleprompter for the speaker.

00:44 Now, a news anchor using a teleprompter can be effective because you don't actually see the words.

00:51 The news anchor appears to just be talking to you.

00:55 But when all the words are up there, and you see the person kind of turning their back and blah, blah, blah, blah, it destroys the whole effect.

01:02 It becomes incredibly boring.

01:05 So the first thing you've got to realize if you're going to use PowerPoint effectively, is you can't use it just as your teleprompter.

01:13 The poor man's the poor woman's teleprompter, because if you do, you're just going to put everybody to sleep.