The document provides 12 steps for an ineffective presentation, including ignoring the audience, using long unreadable text on slides, excessive bullet points without relevance, animations and sounds that distract from the content, backgrounds that make text hard to read, mixing fonts and clip art, errors in spelling and grammar, reading slides verbatim, approaching controversial topics, being funny without regard to the content, and changing the content during the presentation. The purpose is to outline poor presentation techniques to avoid.