Don’t Blame PowerPoint
If your PowerPoint presentation is a disaster don’t blame PowerPoint…
It seems these days that everyone is condemning this powerful tool without taking any responsibility for the fact that they created and delivered the slides that put their audience to sleep !
As a child I was taught that “A good workman never blames his tools” and to me PowerPoint is just a tool to help me deliver my messages. Sometimes it is not the right tool to use and sometimes it is the right tool but we don’t use it in the best way.
A great craftsman doesn’t just be a set of great tools and magically become a master. He works hard, he studies the masters and through experimentation and practice learns how to his tools properly.
Contrast this with how few business people have had little or no training in PowerPoint yet use it all the time. I it any wonder that there are so many bad PowerPoint presentations out there.
