PowerPoint presentations are usually boring manager

The more films are projected on the wall, the more boring lecture. The findings of a study of executives.

Slide show at an exhibition in Berlin

Managers in German companies find the most business presentations are not convincing. The survey showed that managers' Publikumeter 2012 "by the Hamburg Institute praesentarium. Thus, 82 percent of all presentations will be classified as boring as exciting as 14 percent targeted and only 4 percent.

The Institute interviewed 5,000 people over a period of 10 years in live interviews - with the proviso to classify their own experience in three prescribed and analysis. A similar survey was conducted a few years ago, the Wall Street Journal among American executives. Comparable results were obtained. "And so, although in the United States already trained primary school children in terms of presentation - that is with us still rather rare," says Danz Gerriet. "In my opinion, the excessive use of projectors and slides a major reason for the weak effect of many presentations." Danz advises presenters to give up films in doubt: "Each film is less strengthens the effect of the presenter and the quality of the presentation."

PowerPoint Alternative Power Bullet

The presentation program is Powerbullet pretty easy, but also free.

Power Bullet is similar in terms of construction and use of the text and presentation software from Microsoft. With the open source Apache program Impress, it shares the prize, because it is free to download. Power Bullet, however, has another advantage: The film collection is not only in HTML Flash stored but also in Exe format and therefore requires the presentation of the available hardware or a specific software or a separate player.

A professional PowerPoint presentation design in 2 minutes

All of your PowerPoint presentations look somewhat alike, and you find that boring? This must not be. Because Microsoft PowerPoint installed many smart-looking designs that allow you to help each presentation in a flash to a new look. With a few clicks, you change the design. Here's how:
Open an existing PowerPoint file, or create a new one.
Turn the ribbon to the tab "Design".