Presentation Skills: The Demise of PowerPoint

Jerry Tarver, a speech writer and Professor at the University of Richmond, wrote this incisive limerick that skewers those of us who think that, when it comes to PowerPoint slides, “too much ain’t enough.”

Learn the fate of a speaker named Clive,
Whose PowerPoint ate him alive.
His face was last seen
Fading into the screen,
Which entombed him in chart ninety-five.

 

Sims Wyeth is a speech coach in Montclair, NJ specializing in presentation skills and public speaking training in order to give accomplished people the knowledge and skill they need to become accomplished speakers. Learn more public speaking tips at www.SimsWyeth.com.

 

 

 

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