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I need to share with you my frustration about the world’s worst office offences and management misdemeanours – the PowerPoint crimes. Reports, Scripts and Presenting Backwards. Discover 3 ways to keep yourself from being thrown into professional prison and keep yourself on the right side of presentation law.
Looking forward to having you on my learning journey!
Nia
Office Offences and Management Misdemeanours: 3 Worst PowerPoint Crimes
A phenomenon of geography or culture? I’d never seen this until I moved from Wales to England over 6 years ago. It could be totally unrelated to geography and more related to organisational culture of course. But the move and the discovery were peculiarly coincidental.
In Wales, we’d been shifting to a ‘less is more’ approach to PowerPoint. We were taking more of a TED talk approach and using PowerPoint as an aide – to emphasis, excite and exemplify. But 5 and a half years ago all of that changed and I was exposed to a new phenomenon
What is this phenomenon, I hear you ask?
Well, it’s what I call the Packing-in of PowerPoint
In the last 5 and a half years I’ve worked in 3 very different organisations. I’ve seen countless PowerPoints presented in hundreds of different meetings by people from a myriad of different places. And I can confirm, the phenomenon is………………
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