Over recent
years there has been a marked growth in the number of people claiming that
presentations need more interaction. The latest voice in the clamour is Meeting
Professionals International (MPI) which has published a series of papers
looking at the future of meetings. One deals with content.
Among other things it says ‘Shorten content and add lots of
interaction…’.
A few days
before reading this, I sat through several presentations. Some were good but
some were delivered by incompetent presenters with appallingly bad PowerPoint
material. The idea that those sessions could be made compelling by adding ‘lots
of interaction’ is obviously misguided. All we would have would be sessions
delivered by incompetent presenters with appallingly bad PowerPoint material
and badly executed interaction.
No technology
in the world will make a poor presenter look good and their sessions won’t
suddenly become riveting by the inclusion of interaction. They have to be shown
how to do the job properly. Only when they have become competent presenters
should anybody even think about teaching them how to incorporate interaction.
Originally published in Conference News
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