Core Concepts: Office Offences and Management Misdemeanours - 3 Worst PowerPoint Crimes
Knowing Self-Aware Leadership Minimalistical
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Welcome to today’s Knowing Self-Aware Leadership ‘Core Concepts’ minimalistical!
I need to share with you my frustration about the world’s worst office offences and management misdemeanours - the PowerPoint crimes. Reports, Scripts and Presenting Backwards. Discover 3 ways to keep yourself from being thrown into professional prison and keep yourself on the right side of presentation law.
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Turning reports into PowerPoint slides – If your slide looks like it could double as a government white paper, you’ve gone too far. PowerPoint isn’t Word in disguise, so let’s stop squashing entire reports onto slides and pretending they’re readable.
Reading slides like a script – If the audience can read the slides faster than you can present them, you’re officially redundant. Slides are not a karaoke machine, so please, speak like a human, not like a teleprompter.
Facing away from the audience – Unless you’re hosting a magic show, turning your back on the audience won’t win any points. The message gets lost somewhere between your shoulders and the projector fan, so stay front-facing and make eye contact like it’s 2025.
Cramming in too much content – Just because PowerPoint lets you keep typing doesn’t mean you should. If your font size drops below 10 and you need a telescope to read it, it’s time to trim the fat and let your message breathe.
Letting the slides do all the talking – If your slides could give the presentation without you, they probably should. But since you’re here, make it worth everyone’s while by adding a bit of insight, personality and something we can’t just skim in an email.
Losing the human touch – Presenting is more than reading things out with a laser pointer. People remember stories, not bullet points, so stand up, speak up and give them something they’ll actually care about.
Letting culture shape your slides – Just because “everyone does it this way” doesn’t mean it’s good. Bad habits spread fast, and cluttered slides are no exception. Break the mould, be the rebel, and keep your slides clear enough to read without a decoder ring.
The Last Word
Let’s be honest, we’ve all committed at least one PowerPoint crime in our time. Maybe we packed in too much text, hid behind our slides, or treated the screen like a script. The good news is, these are misdemeanours, not career-ending offences. With a bit of self-awareness and a dash of humour, we can all move from presentation offenders to confident communicators. So next time you open PowerPoint, remember: less is more, you’re the star of the show, and the audience came to see you, not your 12-point font.
Nia is an expert leader who talks the talk and walks the walk. She is an academically awarded thought leader in self-aware leadership and practices self-aware leadership every single day in her role as a Director in a Children’s Charity.
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