Video Script: This video series highlights a dynamic, engaging way of using PowerPoint called visual interactivity that sets you apart from the normal speaker. Most PowerPoint presentations, as you probably know, look something like this … lots and lots of text that goes on and on for slide after slide. Pretty soon thoughts begin wondering off to that juicy sandwich you’ll be having for lunch and you can’t wait for this boring meeting to be over!

But let’s say you want your presentations to be different—different in two key ways. Rather than merely displaying paragraphs of text, or silly clipart, slides contain truly meaningful, visual content that clarifies concepts, entertains, adds depth to verbal messages, and helps people better understand ideas.

Difference 2 is that your presentation materials are full of navigation strategies that let you jump quickly and easily between groups of content—either in the same show, or across multiple separate slide shows. While addressing a client, for example, you stay linear initially, but then if time starts running out, less important slides are skipped along the way. Or, maybe a potential buyer has questions about a product. You dive off for a moment into a short sequence of unplanned detail in another slide show, and then return to the planned agenda. In worst case scenarios, you even have the power to completely change the direction, focus, and duration of a talk, in an instant, if something goes wrong.

In other words, instead of approaching each audience with a new, long, rigid deck full of PowerPoint text, your presentation materials are highly visual, highly flexible, and reusable, allowing you to be both verbally and visually interactive with viewers. You no longer just “give a one-way presentation.” You “have a conversation” with people that is dynamic and customizable. Your PowerPoint slides are like visual words displayed on demand, accompanied by verbal detail. We call this process “visually interactive” presentation.

Would you like try it? The next four video clips get you started with a wealth of ideas and techniques for transforming your own presentation materials into visually dynamic tools. Explore for yourself how presenting this way makes public speaking, teaching, and sales a whole lot more fun, effective and profitable. We’ll take you on a journey that changes a typical text-filled, linear slide into something far more interesting and user-friendly. Additional hands-on learning materials can then take you even further. Enjoy the ride and best of success!