The Cost of Bad PowerPoint Presentations

There are number of reasons behind a bad PowerPoint presentation, out of which one significant cause could be the ineffective formatting of your slides. Filling it with large amount of text along with bullets can create a big visual mess.

Be it a corporate seminar or an educational teaching, the basic fundamental to follow is to keep everything simple and apposite. Addition of bright backgrounds and non-relevant images can confuse the audience, thus making your effort a total waste.

Following inefficient strategies, you can kill the immaculacy of your content that can lead to devastating results. Let’s have a look:

Loss of Audience Interest

Your slides act as a major source in making your viewers understand what actually you want to convey. But unattractive and disorganized slides would make the onlookers completely lost and results in gradual lack of interest. Also, the way you present yourself plays a crucial role in catching their attention.

Unfulfilled Objective

The target of your presentation should be the better understanding of your company’s operations. And when the viewers are unable to comprehend the information you are providing, the purpose of your presentation remains unaccomplished.

Affects Your Business

Bad Presentations can lead to number of confusions among the audience and can affect your business considerably. Making use of lengthy sentences and lack of communication skills can puzzle the spectators.

Wastage of Time and Money

Bad presentations often incur loads of money. The amount of funds consumed in conducting such presentations including the salary of the presenter and the concerned audiences, goes in vain.

Moreover, the number of hours absorbed in an ineffective presentation gives no fruitful results. 

Following efficient methods, while preparing your presentation, can eliminate all worse outcomes. Make sure that the size of text and color you are using in your content is easily comprehensible. Avoid using complex diagrams and do not read the sentences as it is. For more details, refer to our article on 18 tips to improve your presentation skills.

Keep a friendly approach while communicating to have a powerful interaction with the gathering. Set a clear picture in the mind of audience by sticking to one central idea per slide.

So it is important to envisage once, before making a bunch of audience sit through another pointless presentation and avoid the above mentioned disastrous consequences.