Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
49 | ☠️ Death By PowerPoint? Fixing Boring Virtual Presentations For Good
Ever sat through a slide deck so text-heavy and lifeless that your brain completely shut down? Most virtual presentations don’t fail because of bad ideas – they fail because audiences check out. That’s what’s known as Death by PowerPoint.
In this episode of the Virtual Presentation Skills Podcast, we share quick, practical ways to boost virtual engagement and keep your audience focused from start to finish. After coaching over 8,500 professionals worldwide, they know exactly what causes disengagement—and how to fix it.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- Why too much text kills attention and how to simplify.
- The science of online attention spans (and how to reset focus).
- Easy engagement tools: polls, gray-out builds, questions, and visuals.
- How to make sure your slides support you, not suffocate you.
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👉 Press play and make “Death by PowerPoint” a thing of the past.
6 days ago
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8 days ago
Death by Powerpoint is an old concept.. What is your new spin?
20 days ago
FIxing boring virtual presentations can be simple and easy!
1 months ago
Interesting History: The term ”Death by PowerPoint” is most widely credited to Angela R. Garber, who first coined it in an article for Small Business Computing in 2001 to describe the dull, uninspiring presentations that can lead to boredom and inattentiveness in the audience. While the phrase gained prominence with Garber’s article, the concept of mind-numbing presentations was likely already a reality due to inefficient use of PowerPoint’s predecessor, which dates back to the introduction of PowerPoint in the late 1980s.