A friend asked what tips I had for presenting using powerpoint. I use powerpoint at least twice a week for pretty heavy content within a corporate environment... making the information 'sticky' is critical

1. Delivering Training With
PowerPoint
What to do and of course the big No-No’s.
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2. A Powerful Tool
As with all power, comes great responsibility
• Don’t bore your audience.
• Don’t talk AT them through the screen.
• Don’t use PowerPoint as a fall back… it is a prompt for more information
• Dazzle them with sweet, salient points of information. Power
Points if you will…
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3. Too Much Content
• If there are multiple paragraphs, with multiple point, with
multiple quotes, with multiple images, with…and with… and
with…
• YOU WILL LOOSE THEIR ATTENTION
• Keep it to a single or three points.
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4. Animations
• Controlling what your audience sees, when and with what impact can be very well
timed using the animations controls in PowerPoint… – over animating makes it
busy, confusing and not easy to print out if you want to use the presentation in
handouts.
• Be consistent in the manner in which you animate – EXCEPT – when making a
point that requires real `impact, because they will get accustomed to the
presentation, so throwing in something very different will make the information
STICKY
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5. Bullet everything
• Point
• By
• Point
• Bullet
• Your
• Notes
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6. Multi-Media
• Use the embedding function in PowerPoint (If it’s
offline)
• Or use Links to Videos, Gifs, Audio
• Utilise the Audience’s internal representation systems
– VAK
• Make them FEEL something
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7. Recap, Repeat, Reword, Reuse
• Repeat
• Repeat
• Repeat
• Have the key points summarized in the ‘In this section we will cover’ slides
• Have the key points summarized in the ‘In this section we learnt’ slides
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8. Showing Statistics
• When using tables – write the point in sentence form
so they know what to look for.
• When using graphs – write the point in sentence form
so they know what to look for.
• When using pictures… etc etc etc
• Best bet is to use INFOGRAPHICs to really stick in
their minds.
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