PowerPoint Isn’t Your Presentation
I recently wrote a post over at SmartBlog on Leadership titled “7 tips to enhance your next presentation”. It outlines some tips to consider when 
Probably the most important takeaway from the session was “Your PowerPoint deck is not your presentation.”
I was reminded of this during a recent conversation about conference iPhone / iPad apps. I asked about including the speaker PowerPoint decks within the conference app. I got a little pushback. The reasoning was, including the decks with the app meant everyone would have the slides – even the people who didn’t attend the conference.
And I thought…so what?! The deck isn’t the presentation. The speaker is the presentation.
That being said, I’m not suggesting that every speaker give their PowerPoint slides away for free. Creating a PowerPoint deck takes time. Sometimes it contains a proprietary chart, graph, or image. Even so, the PowerPoint is not the entire presentation.
Let me know your thoughts on this. Can you figure out the entire message of a presentation by looking at the speaker’s PowerPoint slides?
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