Suffering From Presentation Fatigue?
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 | Justin Bugajski
Business Objects has released the results of survey that suggests that most business executives suffer from presentation fatigue, a direct result of the vast amounts of time they spend preparing for and giving presentations each month.
Most business executives suffer from “presentation fatigue,” a direct result of the vast amounts of time they spend preparing for and giving presentations each month, according to a survey from Business Objects. The survey indicated that while executives have improved access to data, they need solutions that can help them quickly and easily present that information in a visually appealing format.
A recent online poll of 382 executives found that over half of the respondents give one or more presentations per month. Of those respondents, 36 percent found presenting data to the board or senior management “tedious,” with a further 24 percent stating they “dread it each time it comes around.”
The poll results reveal that preparing for presentations is time-consuming and stressful for most executives. Survey participants admitted (45 percent) that it often takes them one or more hours to convert data in Excel spreadsheets into a format for a meeting or presentation. An additional 34 percent of the executives surveyed have pulled an all-nighter to prepare for a big presentation.
As more and more is demanded of executives at board meetings, customer events, and financial reviews, they need to find ways to make the data presentation process simpler and more compelling.
“As we all know, presentations can either lull an audience to sleep, or they can energize them to act,” said Donald MacCormick, vice president of product marketing for Business Objects.
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