SWOT Team: Do PowerPoint Improvements Ever End?

by Hank Stroll

Published on July 20, 2004

Tags: Job Search, Marketing Challenges, Personal Branding

“Change the font.”

“These colors are all wrong.”

“Don't like that word. Use this one instead. Hey, what about our mission statement? I didn't see it. That needs to go on the front.”

Executive- and director-level managers have their own quirks as to what they like and don't like in presentations, project plans, contracts and what-have-you.

Many of us get frustrated and think, “C'mon! It's just a presentation! Those changes aren't going to impact the information presented!” On occasion, valid suggestions do affect the content—but result in missed deadlines. Time runs out, and whatever material is in the current version becomes the final version. When this happens, how late is the presentation? How much time has been wasted that the presenter could've used to prepare for giving the presentation?

Does this vicious cycle of trying to please everyone with a document have to happen to avoid stepping on political landmines? You finish the draft early enough to have the final done on time, yet it rarely meets the deadline—thanks to the picky feedback from others who won't let it move forward until they've eyeballed it. What are ways of dealing with approvals to get a document completed on time and with fewer go-arounds?

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