Strategies for Presentations: Using 2 Separate PowerPoints

00:00 If you're giving a PowerPoint presentation, you really, in my opinion, need to have two separate, distinct presentations.

00:07 There is the PowerPoint that you actually project, could be on a small screen. It could be on a 100 foot screen in front of people when you are standing speaking to them.

00:17 That PowerPoint presentation should be devoid of words text, complexity, columns, and complex graphs.

00:25 Instead, it should have images.

00:27 Pictures. If there's a graph, it should show one relationship, two variables at most.

00:35 There is a second PowerPoint presentation that you also need, and that is something that you email to people in advance, or you hand out.

00:44 This PowerPoint can have lots and lots of text, lots of data, complexity, wildly complex graphs, because people can read it. They can print it out.

00:55 They can twist it.

00:57 Turn it. They can start to read it.

00:59 Get hungry, put it down. Go get a ham sandwich.

01:01 Come back and read it and study it again.

01:04 It's a different medium.

01:06 The text medium that you control is simply different from a live presentation where the audience can't control the slides going by now, Microsoft PowerPoint has a notes section where you can put notes in it, lots of data.

01:24 It shows up to anyone you email the PowerPoint to.

01:27 It shows up on any computer screen, but when you're projecting it, it doesn't show up.

01:32 So you can actually have two presentations in one file, or you can have it as two completely different ones.

01:40 If you try to have one PowerPoint that has multi purposes, you are going to fail.

01:46 I understand that's how most people do it, but I'm here to tell you it is not effective.