Any meeting involving PowerPoint can be an email instead. Just email the deck to people. If they have questions, they can either email you or request a meeting. But don’t interrupt people if all you’re going to do is make them follow along while you read through a presentation.
If your PowerPoint slides contain all of the information that you intend to present, it’s a shitty PowerPoint deck. A slide deck should only highlight the key points you are going to make, or to illustrate your points. The bulk of the information transfer should be verbal, with words that do not directly appear on your PowerPoint slides.
Go watch any professional presentation from a big organization ever. You’ll notice most of what the presenter is saying does not appear verbatim on the slides.
If someone emails me a deck, I’m not reading it.
I don’t read out PowerPoints, I just put pics and titles usually. But yeah, if you just read off your slides verbatim, the verbal component is pretty useless.
