Home » Blog » Uncategorized » My 3 tips to empower your presentation, without PowerPointAgile & Scrum BasicsMy 3 tips to empower your presentation, without PowerPointPowerPoint as a standard for planning and persuasionIf you want to convince in a meeting, a flashy PowerPoint presentation is the norm in many organizations. Everyone does it, so do you. An idea or plan without an accompanying PowerPoint is not taken seriously in advance. However? Exactly.Look, in some organizations, professionals spend 50% of their time producing PowerPointslides and the other 50% of their time in meetings to present them or be convinced by PowerPoints from colleagues. A simple calculation tells you that this leaves little time for execution and operation, but also gives a feeling of high workload. In addition, the average PowerPoint presentation is full of data, graphs, pivot tables and organizational charts. That makes an average listener dizzy.From PowerPoint to interactionFair is fair. Until about 7 years ago, much of our training consisted of a slide deck. Sleekly designed with animations and photos. It gave structure to the structure of the training and immediately generated a handout for the participants of a training. But the real value of a training is not the handout of the training afterwards, but the interaction with each other during the training. In short: we stopped using it overnight and replaced the traditional way of training. For what? For the now successful style of training brimming with interaction, dialogue and practical experience.Why PowerPoint is usedCommon reasons for using PowerPoint are:It empowers a story, because the age-old cliché goes: he who writes stays;Everyone is doing it, so you too; it has become the norm within the corporate culture;It makes yourself and your position visible;It gives room to present lots of graphs, tables and data;PowerPoint has become a deliverable from a sprint. Which I personally think is a linchpin move. Because in my opinion, Microsoft is the only one who makes money from PowerPoint and for everyone else it is a tool, which an end user is not likely to want to pay an invoice for. The real value for end users and customers often really lies elsewhere.The 3 tips to empower your presentationUsing PowerPoint can be useful to organize your thoughts. You can also do that with pen and paper, for that matter. Here are 3 concrete tips to really strengthen your presentation. With or without PowerPoint. And I challenge you to try without PowerPoint next time.Make sure your presentation inspires. Storytelling helps with that. Make the story cool to listen to. In short: make it a blazing speech.Put the other person’s interests first. The point is not to convince the other person of your idea, but to show that you understand the other person. By putting the other person’s interests first, you get the other person excited, because they see where the gain is for themselves.Provide insight. This can of course be done by sharing data. But it can also be done by facilitating an interesting discussion to help colleagues gain insight. The value then lies in sharing different insights instead of presenting your own. This greatly increases the acceptance of the best ideas.In conclusionFor your learning and entertainment, I was made aware of this video by colleague Roy Gielen . If this video is recognizable to you, then the above 3 tips will certainly be of use to you.TagsinteractionpowerpointtrainingsShare this article