Managing Organizational Behavior 2nd Edition by Timothy Baldwin,Bill Bommer,Robert Rubin

Exercise 1

Fixing a Typically Bad PowerPoint Presentation
You were asked by your boss to research and prepare a presentation on using social media for internal communications in your firm. You put together what you thought was a solid PowerPoint presentation of the existing data and the important issues for your firm. After a practice run for your boss and a couple of her colleagues, however, they spend 20 minutes giving you frank feedback which included comments like, "Nice slides but it was kind of long and boring," "It was a lot of good bullet points, but didn't have much punch," "It was often hard to see where you were going," and "Forget the jazzy PowerPoint features and just cut to the chase." One even said, "With all due respect, I felt like I was undergoing death by PowerPoint."
How would you proceed in trying to "fix" this presentation? Are there any guidelines you would follow to avoid the kind of comments you evoked in your practice run? Similarly, given that so many presentations end up just as yours has, what are some of the traps that seem to consistently make their way into such presentations, and probably did in yours?