Transcript Top Ten Tips for Screwing-up a Presentation Presented by someone who has screwed-up a lot of presentations (and has watched others do the same)

Top Ten Tips
for Screwing-up a
Presentation
Presented by someone
who has screwed-up a lot of
presentations
(and has watched others do the same)
Tip #10
Clutter your slides
with
graphics
that
distract
from what
you are
saying.
And use a small font too.
Tip #9
Don’t proof your slides very, very
carefully
If you use bad grammer and speeling on a
slide people think you ain’t really all that
smart
Tip #8
Put a lot of text on a slide and then read it
to your audience so that they think you
think they can’t read and don’t forget to
talk fast too. Or assume they will read
the slides and then they will not listen to
what you are saying and what you are
saying may actually be interesting unlike
the text on this slide.
Tip #7
Memorize
your
presentation
and
talk like a robot.
Tip #6
Look at only the
cute people
in the room.
Tip #5
Don’t test your stuff in enough time
to make adjustments.
Don’t test your technology.
Don’t test your clothes.
Tip #4
Don’t anticipate the questions.
Faint when you don’t know the answer
to a question (and hope for the
sympathy of the audience).
Tip #3
Make sure you
run out of time
and don’t get a chance
to make your
main points.
Tip #2
Allow people to
forget about you
as soon as you
sit down.
Tip #1
Don’t give a flip
about the kind of audience
you have.
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Clutter your slides.
Don’t proof your slides.
Put a lot of text on a slide and read.
Memorize and talk like a robot.
Look at only the cute people.
Don’t test in enough time.
Don’t anticipate the questions.
Run out of time.
Allow people to forget about you.
Don’t give a flip about the audience you have.