Advancing Slides the Advanced Way

What’s the most effective way to change slides during your PowerPoint presentation.

Let’s work from the worst and then get to the best in my opinion the worst way to do it is to have some poor Assistant Administrative Assistant Assistant Vice pressed someone who works for you.

You’ve finished one slide you finished what you say and then you’re now saying I know Jeeves let’s go to the next slide.

It just seems like you are so full of yourself you’re so important that you need your own caddie up on stage.

I think that doesn’t set the right message.

It also kind of stops the presentation and puts a spotlight on the mechanics of you telling someone to advance.

It’s awkward it seems phony and it kind of seems like you just think you are a king or a prince or something.

I don’t like that at all.

Now the next thing people do sometimes they finish and then it’s kind of like this befuddlement they they’re walking 10 feet over what am I supposed to do.

This is different from my own laptop fiddling around.

That’s not good either.

And then there’s the thing where they’re holding a remote control but it’s big and bulky and it’s like they’re treating it like it’s a bunch of eggs that could crack.

You want to do this with the least amount of attention possible.

Now if you’re in front of a small group or you’re sitting down.

The easiest thing is just to hit the spacebar on a keyboard.

That way you don’t worry about remotes or anything else.

You’re right there you just hit the space bar and you can walk around the room come back and off.

All you have to do is hit one button that’s easy.

Now I have no problem with remotes.

I’m using a remote right now.

What I do recommend is the smallest remote possible so that your hands can still gesture and you’re not freezing your hand in destroying your body language and you want something so that all you have to do is hit advance that keeps it simple you’re not going to have to sit there and study your remote on and on.

That’s what keeps it simple.