Strengths+and+Weaknesses+of+Presentation

Strengths and Weaknesses of Bill Gate’s and Steve Job’s Presentations ** Bill Gates **  Recommendations: - Keep the presentation interactive, particularly because it is an informative presentation. This can be done by using different communication techniques such as asking questions to the audience, using personal stories etc… - Only include information that the audience __must__ know. Difficult to follow because of vast amount of information and unknown terms. - Make the presentation succinct and “flowing”. - Break up the slides so that they are not so cluttered. ** Steve Jobs **  Recommendations: - Make the slides more descriptive and interactive; this will engage the audience better. - Use transitional terms to make the presentation flow. - Add titles and explanations for graphics. Report: I think that it will take some “playing” with different designs to find the best fit for this report. But I think the most important part of this assignment is to keep in mind that the purpose is to help improve the presentations of each of these two department heads. Thus, our report should focus on solutions for the problems instead of creating a detailed list/summary of each. Once we have narrowed down our list of strengths and weaknesses this will be easier to do. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">- Brief paragraphs with strengths and weaknesses of each presentation followed by detailed recommendations for improvement.
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Strengths **  ||  ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Weaknesses  **  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Inflection of voice and articulation of words || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Hesitated and used the word “ah” too often (distracting/boring)  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Hand gestures helped emphasize important points and brought up the energy || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Facial expressions were unchanging and did not animate the presentation  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Slides were informative with titles and bullet points – fairly easy to read || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Graphics slide was far to cluttered, too many images packed into one slide  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Uses transitional terms. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Supporting details did not back up Mr. Gates’ claims…not specific  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Words and phrases were used that were difficult to understand and relate to.   ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Strengths **  ||  ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Weaknesses  **  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Audience interaction – good use of varied communication techniques || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Slides – no titles on any of slides  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Inflection of voice, hand gestures and facial expressions to keep up energy || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Slides were not interactive, lack of graphics to describe main points  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Very informative and easy to understand the product and purpose of presentation || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">PowerPoint was not a representation of the Apple/iPod image and did not give a clear picture of the iPod  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Repeated important points for audience retention || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">No transitional terms  ||