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."



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