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Business Presentations Survey - Ends With A Gift

Presentation Survey - To get your free gift you need to answer all the questions.

This survey is only about giving a live business presentation in front of an audience. Please answer the questions with that in mind.

No names or email information will be gathered. Everyone who fills out this survey will be anonymous. We want to tabulate the responses and use them in articles to convince people there are better ways to develop, design and deliver presentations.

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1.\ ^* Your role

Create and give presentations

Only give presentations, don't create slides

Create the slides, someone else gives the presentation

Mostly attend presentations and don't give them

2.\ ^* Approximately how many presentations do you give a year?

1 to 10

11 to 30

31 to 60

61 to 100

100 +

None

Organizing the Content

3.\ ^* For a 30-minute presentation, about how much time do you spend organizing the content and figuring out what information to include or leave out?

30 minutes

60 minutes

2 hours

3 hours

More than 3 hours

Not applicable

4.\ ^* For a 30-minute presentation how many slides do you normally use?

10 slides

15 slides

20 slides

25 slides

30 + slides

Not applicable

5.\ ^* For an hour-long presentation, about how much time do you spend organizing the content and figuring out what information to include or leave out?

30 minutes

60 minutes

2 hours

3 hours

More than 3 hours

Not applicable

6.\ ^* For an hour-long presentation how many slides do you normally use?

15 slides

20 slides

30 slides

35 slides

40 slides

45 slides

50+ slides

Not applicable

7.\ ^* Does your company give you outlines for organizing your content?

Yes

Not applicable

8.\ ^* If you were given outlines for specific types of presentations how much time do you think you would save? For example, an outline for presenting a strategy recommendation to the management team.

15 minutes

30 minutes

45 minutes

60 minutes

90 minutes

2 hours

3 hours

8 hours

Not applicable

9.\ ^* Generally, how satisfied are you that your presentation content conveys your messages?

8 (Very Satisfied)

1 (Not Satisfied)

Not applicable

10.\ What would have to happen for you to be very satisfied that your content conveys your messages?

11.\ ^* If your company gives you presentations to use, how well does their content speak to the intended audience?

8 (Very Well)

1 (Not Well)

Not applicable

12.\ ^* Do you redo your company presentations?

Yes

Sometimes

Not Applicable

13.\ ^* How much time would you save for each presentation if you did not have to redo your company presentations?

15 minutes

30 minutes

45 minutes

60 minutes

90 minutes

2 hours

3 hours

8 hours

Not applicable

14.\ ^* For salespeople, who gives you the slides that you use to present?

Marketing

Sales

Product Management

Third Party

Make Them Myself

Question not applicable to me

15.\ ^* For salespeople, if you had a program that assembled and customized your presentation slides based on selections you' ve made using a form, how much time would that save you?

30 minutes

60 minutes

90 minutes

Question not applicable to me

Creating the Slides

16.\ ^* Approximately how much time could you save for each presentation if you knew more about creating effective PowerPoint slides?

15 minutes

30 minutes

45 minutes

60 minutes

90 minutes

2 hours

3 hours

8 hours

Question not applicable to me

Depends on the presentation

17.\ ^* Approximately how much time could you save for each presentation if you had professional-looking PowerPoint design slides available, so all you had to do was enter the data?

15 minutes

30 minutes

45 minutes

60 minutes

90 minutes

2 hours

3 hours

8 hours

Question not applicable to me

Have some designs but would love more

18.\ What would have to happen for you to be very satisfied that your PowerPoint slides look professional?

19.\ ^* Does your company give you templates or PowerPoint backgrounds to use?

Yes

Not applicable

20.\ If yes, how effective (professional looking and easy to use) are they?

8 (Very effective, I use them)

3 (Not very effective, I have to fix them)

1 (I don't even use them)

Not applicable, I answered No for the earlier question

21.\ ^* Does your company give you specific graphic designs such as arrow images, good-looking tables, creative circles and comparision charts to use?

Yes

Not applicable

22.\ If yes, how effective (professional looking and easy to use) are they?

8 (Very effective, I use them)

3 (Not very effective, I have to fix them)

1 (I don't even use them)

Not applicable, I answered No for the earlier question

23.\ ^* Do you know how to use the slide master in PowerPoint?

Yes

24.\ ^* Do you practice your presentations out loud?

Always

Sometimes

Never

Question not applicable to me

25.\ If you practice your presentations out loud, do you think it makes a difference in your talks?

Yes, definitely

Maybe, not sure

Question not applicable to me

26.\ If you don't practice out loud, how much better do you think you would be at engaging your audience and speaking to their needs and interests if you did practice?

Much better

Somewhat better

No better

Question not applicable to me

27.\ ^* If you had presentation slide templates with 20 or more slide design looks (custom imagery, arrows, tables, graphics), how much time per presentation do you think you could save?

None

1 hour

2 hours

3 hours

4 hours

5 hours

10 hours

Not applicable

Divide 100% of the time you spend preparing for a presentation into three tasks: logically organizing the content, creating PowerPoint slides, and practicing out loud. What percent of prep time do you spend on each of these tasks?

28.\ ^* % of time logically organizing the content

Spend no time on this task

Under 10%

10% to 20%

20 to 33%

33% to 50%

Over 50%

Not applicable

29.\ ^* % of time creating PowerPoint slides

Spend no time on this task

Under 10%

10% to 20%

20% to 33%

33% to 50%

Over 50%

Not applicable

30.\ ^* % of time practicing out loud

Spend no time on this task

Under 10%

10% to 20%

20% to 33%

33% to 50%

Over 50%

Not applicable

31.\ ^* If your company could do two things to help you save time and give quality presentations that focus on results, what would those two things be? Check two.

Give me effective PowerPoint slides to use

Stop giving me presentations that are too long

Stop giving me presentation slides that are too detailed

Stop having me prepare for a 20-minute talk when I only have 10 to give it

Stop giving me slides on the way to the presentation, so I don't have time to rehearse

Question not applicable to me

32.\ ^* If you give presentations to people in your company, how necessary do you believe these presentations to be?

Very necessary

Somewhat necessary

Not necessary

A waste of time

Question not applicable to me

33.\ ^* Of the presentations that you give, what percent do you consider a waste of time?

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Question not applicable to me

34.\ ^* Of the presentations that you give, what percent do you consider too long?

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Not applicable

35.\ ^* If you could have presenters change two things in their presentations, which two would you pick:

Organize your content for the audience

Provide less information: use fewer slides

Provide more information: use more slides

Make your slides readable and understandable

Sound interested in your topic

Make your presentation shorter

36.\ What question would you have asked in this survey?

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since November 02, 2000