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Any meeting involving PowerPoint can be an email instead. Just email the deck to people. If they have questions, they can either email you or request a meeting. But don't interrupt people if all you'r (kbin.social)
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Any meeting involving PowerPoint can be an email instead. Just email the deck to people. If they have questions, they can either email you or request a meeting. But don't interrupt people if all you're going to do is make them follow along while you read through a presentation.

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

If your PowerPoint slides contain all of the information that you intend to present, it's a shitty PowerPoint deck. A slide deck should only highlight the key points you are going to make, or to illustrate your points. The bulk of the information transfer should be verbal, with words that do not directly appear on your PowerPoint slides.

Go watch any professional presentation from a big organization ever. You'll notice most of what the presenter is saying does not appear verbatim on the slides.

[-] starbreaker@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

@bionicjoey I work at a big organization. (It's one of the Big 4 accounting firms.) Enough of what the presenter is saying appears on the slides that the presenter is irrelevant.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I don't read out PowerPoints, I just put pics and titles usually. But yeah, if you just read off your slides verbatim, the verbal component is pretty useless.

[-] florge@feddit.uk 0 points 11 months ago

If someone emails me a deck, I'm not reading it.

[-] starbreaker@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@florge Neither do I unless it's directly relevant to my work. Most of the time, though, it's just rah-rah corporate culture bullshit. I still attend these calls (with my mic and speakers muted) because people notice when I don't even though I'm never called upon to speak. Then it's all, "He never attends all-hands meetings. He's not a team player."

Neurotypicals gonna neurotypical, I guess. This is what I get for becoming a programmer instead of an electrician.

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