Alternatives to Powerpoint

We've been pretty busy of late. Hence the lack of anything remotely resembling a work-related post for quite some time. We've been too busy working to think about work, if you see what I mean. (Hope you've been enjoying the bike stuff in the meantime).

On Planet Staufenberger, work usually means a presentation of some sort. But clients get a bit tired of endless Powerpoint. And the document tends to get filed and forgotten. Now, we'd be the first to suggest that it's not Powerpoint that's the problem; it's the way you use it that gives it a bad rep. Nonetheless, we like being a bit different, and avoid it wherever possible.

So we always try to make landmark presentations a little bit special. And if we can't make them special then we at least try to make them stand out a bit.

The presentation-that-isn't we're currently working on is a graphic novel. The style is vaguely relevant to the gist of what we want to say in the meeting. And it will certainly look a bit different to a few bullet points and pie charts.

Let's hope the client likes it.

Comments

[Toffael]

Yusuf,

you're just a frustrated and wannabe thesp! Bit late in life to have that calling!

Hope your client likes it too ... If I were your client, I'd be dead chuffed you'd gone to that much effort to accentuate your point.

Just one tip after my 12 years as a blue chip client:

Rememeber that we often have to summarise what you say and presnt it up our chain of command, so make sure also that the client gets a few summary slides that he/she can also use for their own presentation purposes!

Hope that is helpful

Toffael Rashid; ex Unilever & PepsiCO

[simonw]

Like your style...

For my next major client proposal I'm planning to use techniques I learnt watching puppetry of the penis. Combined with maybe some interpretative dance.

But seriously - isn't the downer people have on ppt partly just due to over-burdened clients having reduced attention spans?

[Yusuf]

I think clients have seen too many bad PowerPoint presentations. You can literally see the relief in their eyes when you tell them there's no powerpoint to come. It's a very similar reaction to when we tell them we have no creds presentation.