2. Always start your presentation on paper — draw
your ideas, link relationships between concepts,
and create a story board
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3. Take out a blank sheet of paper and write down
what you want to accomplish and what our audience
cares about.
Ask yourself – What’s the purpose of your
presentation? What do you want your audience to do
because of your presentation? What message do you
want to deliver that will help you achieve that
purpose?
USE A PLAIN BACKGROUND and remove any
unnecessary detail.
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5. Delete that power point template
Power point templates come from
themindsetthatPowerPointslidesarelikedocumen
tsandsoshouldbebranded•Templatesaddclutter
and distract from the visual impact of a slide.
When it comes to slide design, you shouldn’t
think of decoration, but of communication
SUPPORT THE HEADLINE with graphic evidence
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7. Instead of bullets, support your points with
graphic evidence. This can include photos,
images, charts and diagrams.
Say the words and put the visuals on your slides.
Support your points with creative and relevant
images.
Use graphics rather than bullet lists to support
the headline.
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8. Not every presentation of yours needs a slide.
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9. You only need a visual aid in a presentation if you
would need one in conversation.
Slides should be projected only when they serve
the presentation.
What do you do when you’re not showing a slide?
You insert a plain black slide into your slide
show.
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11. Well-designed slides are terrible handouts since
they lack the on-slide text necessary to form an
informative narrative. [Create]handouts that are
distributed after the presentation.
Your handouts are there pository for detailed
information.
Have well-written hand-outs to leave behind
after the presentation for those who want to
know the why sand where-fores. These will have
to be different from the slides of course!
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13. Even though you’re liable to be presenting
in a darkened room, give some thought to
your own presentation manner–how you
hold yourself, what you wear, how you
move around the room.
You are the focus when you’re presenting,
no matter how interesting your slides are.
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15. Open with something surprising or intriguing,
something that will get your audience to sit up and
take notice.
The most powerful hooks are often those that appeal
directly to your audience’s emotions–offer them
something awesome or, if it’s appropriate, scare the
pants off of them.
The rest of your presentation, then, will be
effectively your promise to make the awesome thing
happen, or the scary thing not happen
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17. Ask a lot of them
Build tension by posing a question and letting
your audience stew a moment before moving to
then ext slide with the answer
Quiz their knowledge and then show them how
little they know
If appropriate, engage in a little question – and –
answer with your audience, with you asking the
questions.
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19. It can be easy to fall into drone, going on and on and on
and on and on with only minimal changes to your
inflection.
Always speak as if you were speaking to a friend, not as if
you are reading off of index cards (even if you are)
If keeping up a lively and personable tone of voice is
difficult for you when presenting, do a couple of practice
run-throughs.
If you still can’t get it right and presentations are a big
part of your job, take a public speaking course or join
Toastmasters.
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