Humour at work: of power-packed presentations

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Let us take a look at some such instances which might seem familiar to many of us.Copy jam decks: This is when the presenter has to take printouts of the slides and pass them around even when a digital version of the presentation is playing on the screen. If the presentation has 50+ slides, even the giant printer and copier in the office will get jammed. Now imagine taking printouts for a meeting that has multiple attendees.

Yet, meetings won’t proceed unless the audience gets the printouts — environmental and cost concerns be damned.Eye test decks: Some powerpoint presentations become thinly veiled eye tests when the slides use a flurry of texts in font sizes of 10 or less. Suddenly the room is full of people squinting to just read the content. Sometimes even moving closer to the screen won’t leave us any wiser to either their intent or their content.Image bank decks: These presentations can be made pretty with images and graphics (and they are even more easy to create today with generative AI sprouting images of everything and everyone).

But somewhere along the way, the main points to be discussed become obscure. Colour me rainbow decks: Some powerpoints can be mistaken for rainbows with a sprinkling of graphs and charts in many hues and shades across slides. Be wary when the maker of a corporate presentation seeks too much of an artistic licence. There are more tools than ever before to help us with templates and designs for powerpoints, but that final version sometimes remains elusive for long when we have to shorten a presentation.