According to Microsoft, there are over 30 million PowerPoint presentations given every day. Nearly all of them are PowerPointless.

I started my career at a Fortune 500 company that had over 40,000 employees. I then moved to Brazil to work for a company with 50 employees.

Regardless of the size of the company, geographic location of the employees, or the language that colleagues spoke, the overwhelming majority of the presentations I was forced to endure were terrible.

The reasons for this vary. If you’ve been in any kind of environment where colleagues have to present on a regular basis I’m sure you can relate. As a simple experiment - think about all of the workplace presentations you’ve sat through in your life. How many do you remember? How many were a complete waste of time?

Although some of this post will discuss how PowerPoint has made presentations suck for everyone (sorry friends at Microsoft), that won’t be the main focus.

Instead, it will be to help you and your colleagues give better presentations with little to no extra effort.