Quick tip on how to make a great start when you're delivering a PowerPoint presentation. Don't show a single slide the first two minutes of your presentation. Just come out, stand in front of people, no lector, not behind a table, talk to them. Tell them one interesting idea you have for them today. engage them at some level, then only then show the first slide. Because so many people in your audience have such negative feelings about PowerPoint because so many people give awful boring data dump PowerPoint presentations.

So he walked up there and there's a slide the first thing you do is go to the next slide. In their gut, they're gonna think oh, this is gonna be awful. This is gonna be boring. Sure is a good thing out in the front row and I have my phone. You don't want that. So By starting off to speaking to people, you'll make, oh, well this is going to be I wasn't expecting that.

Then when you do get to your slideshow you've already established yourself with a high level of credibility.