If your business is looking to gain any edge it can, one surefire way to stifle progress is for your representatives to give lackluster presentations. Carmine Gallo of BusinessWeek recently took a sarcastic look at "How to Give a Lousy Presentation." Here are the steps that are sure to get folks talking about you in a less than flattering manner, and you can read the full article for expanded explanations:
- Misspell words
- Create distracting color combinations
- Use inconsistent fonts
- Use a really small font size
- Insert improperly sized photos that are stretched to fit the slide
- Look completely and totally disinterested
- Look disheveled
- Ready every word of a slide
- Don’t bother with a backup plan
- Don’t practice
- Call attention to your mistakes
- Open with an aggressive or off-color joke
- Use wild animations
- Use cartoon clip art
- Use ancient presentation software