Business Storytelling: Power Point Presentations

The following link was sent so I could review it and see about having this speaker present to our local National Speaker's Association chapter. http://www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/DemoVideo2009v1a/DemoVideo2009v1a.html

I think Mr. Paradi makes some excellent points but since this blog is about storytelling let me focus on one that is germane. Paraphrasing: he says that storytelling has been used for 5,000 years by humans to train and transmit information. It has been successful and the human race has survived so why stop now? Power point presentations tend to be fact and data driven with numerous slides filled with much verbiage and/or graphs and statistics. Usually far too much for audience members to take in.

Mr. Paradi suggests instead of using words and graphs to use more visuals. Pair the visuals with headline type descriptions and tell a story. Take a look at the video, he demonstrates the principle. It is amazing how much more interesting the information is when he re-formats it.

Tell a story with your presentation. Make sure your power point tells a story too!