{"id":20282,"date":"2017-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/why-we-dont-use-powerpoint-in-our-training\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:39:43","slug":"why-we-dont-use-powerpoint-in-our-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/why-we-dont-use-powerpoint-in-our-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we dont use PowerPoint in our training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t use PowerPoint in our training (unless we are doing keynotes to very large audiences where we use it as a backdrop to give the audience something to look at).<\/p>\n<p>We think it gets in the way of communication, makes audiences passive and discourages discussion and interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Now it looks as if the US military has found the same thing, a couple of quotes from the NY Times article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/27\/world\/27powerpoint.html?emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we have met the enemy and he is PowerPoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;PowerPoint makes us stupid,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSome problems in the world are not bullet-izable.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to the effect on audiences PowerPoint is often used in a way it was not intended to &#8211; it is a presentation tool &#8211; hence the advice to use bullet points &#8211; the presenter should talk around the points, not just read the bullets.<\/p>\n<p>What happens in large organizations is that PowerPoint has become a common email attachment &#8211; &#8220;what do you mean I didn&#8217;t inform you about our plans, it was on page 170 of the PowerPoint deck I sent you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In attachments bullet points don&#8217;t communicate &#8211; they are too short to be clear and as Gen Mattis says\u00a0 &#8211; not everything can be distilled down to 5 bullet points.<\/p>\n<p>Why not just write them a word document or give them a call? 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