Are you someone who loves pitching their ideas to a room full of board members, with the help of a powerpoint presentation. The corporate world ushered in the PPT style of presenting ideas and projects.
I have been to my fair share of meetings. And everybody reaches out for their laptops and opens up a fancy ppt to put across their point. In fact it seems like nowadays we can’t establish the validity of our work if not accompanied by a powerpoint presentation.
But at times the information overload is so evident that even the person presenting it, misses out on the core idea behind the presentation. Has it ever happened it with you? Too many slides, too many colours, too many designs, too many ideas, too many facts and figures and lot more too manys.
Have you ever seen in TEDTalks, the participants relying heavily on a PPT presentation for motivating people. Of course not. How could you possibly influence someone by showing them few slides. The whole point behind meetings is to engage in a dialogue and address concerning issues or discuss an idea.
You see words like engaging, dialogue, discuss imply on making it a two-sided conversation. Not just bombardment of information.
So how much is too much? Check out whether overt usage of PPT presentations is affecting your ability to influence people?
Remember some of the most influential personalities never needed a PPT to put across their point. People were influenced irrespective of thre fact whether they used PPT or not. Invest in your idea not the tool you will be using to present it.