Just how is PowerPoint built in companies today? Here at Eyeful we keep a close eye on PowerPoint usage in the corporate world and one of the ways we keep bang up to date is with our annual survey..
PowerPoint is right now the most vital tool for any sales person..
An amazing 52% of the owners of the content within companies have had no formal training on powerpoint slides or on presenting. Coupled with an huge 72% of people who have no formal process for updating their presentation we start to see how under managed PowerPoint collateral is. 95% of companies use PowerPoint slides. 30% of these companies use it everyday.Take into account that 30 million presentations are given each day worldwide you start to see the size of the problem.But of those 30 million only 48% are given by presenters with any formal training and 72% haven’t been coached for a considerable amount of time quite often over a 2 years.The Beginning – This is the second most vital part of the powerpoint slides It should grab the audience’s concentration and give them a flavour of what’s to come. What you use to grab their concentration should depend on your audience and be relevant, but some examples are: An exciting or funny story but remember, use of humour can be a double-edged sword! A small video clip ..no more than 60 seconds… Strange statistics about your trade or your audience, a quote that is associated to what you’re going to talk about The Middle – This is where you get into the real story and the content of what you have to say. To make the powerpoint slides flow, try using the following outline:
Describe an subject faced by the audience – make clear why the audience is there.
