How to Use Whiteboards, Flip Charts in Presentations

00:00 Yes. Not only is it okay to use, for example, a whiteboard, it's often better than a lot of PowerPoint slides.

00:07 Here's the beauty of using a whiteboard where you are holding a magic marker or chalk and drawing is that you can only focus on one thing at a time.

00:16 I've never yet seen someone who can just grab ten different color magic markers and do ten lines at once, creating a financial chart.

00:24 And yet that's what people put up when they have the PowerPoint slide.

00:27 It's too complex.

00:29 So the beauty of you drawing in front of people is it forces you to focus on one thing at a time.

00:36 It forces your audience to focus on one thing at a time.

00:38 It often makes it much more understandable.

00:41 It's extraordinarily difficult to draw in front of people with a lot of complexity. You have to distill it down to the simplest elements. So that's why I'm a huge fan of using simple techniques.

00:57 Whiteboards, drawing and props are perfectly fine too, if you're talking about how your number one product commodity is oranges, and you're from the Chamber of Commerce in a Florida county, you may want to simply have an orange and pass it around to people rather than put up a bullet point slide with all sorts of numbers about oranges.

01:20 So yes, we live in a PowerPoint world.

01:22 I'm not anti PowerPoint, but sometimes the simplest tools are the most effective.