We are not always  “Bashing” Power Point.  It has it’s place.  Just don’t always default to it.  Think…”Do I really need a Power Point presentation to make my point?

From interview with Teresa Taylor, chief operating officer of Qwest:

It’s amazing, there will be eight people in the room and they all have a different answer of what’s going on there. I’ll also say, once we’re clear about what we’re doing: “Does everyone need to be here? If anyone feels like they want to leave right now, that would be fine.” Every once in a while a couple of people will say, “Yeah, I could use this time back,” and they get up and leave.

Q. But you could chew up 10 minutes just going around the table.

A. Sure, I think it’s a good 10 minutes. I really do.

Q. What about presentations?

A. I use a little saying, which is, “Be brief, be bright and be gone.” It’s also not uncommon for me to say, “Why don’t we put the PowerPoint aside for a minute and why don’t you just talk to me?”

Q. What’s the maximum number of PowerPoint slides you want to see?

A. Six. But I actually prefer no PowerPoint. To be honest, I’d rather just talk. A really great meeting, to me, is someone who is just talking to me and might give me a piece of paper or two to support something, but that’s it.

I would like to wish everyone logging in a very Happy New Year!

Now as promised the Three T’s we teach in our training other than the three ”Tell em ” T’s mentioned on the last blog.

1. Touch
2. Turn
3. Talk 

Who can figure the above three T’s out? Feel free to contact us if you would like to know more about how these are used during a talk. They are very helpful techniques everyone should know.

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