This document provides 10 tips for preparing an effective presentation before actually giving it. The tips include knowing your audience and purpose, outlining your content, avoiding templates, reducing text, using simple fonts and layouts, limiting content to 1 point per slide, keeping it simple, and being aware of any presentation guidelines. It emphasizes starting preparation offline without technology, letting visuals support the presenter rather than replace them, and always having a backup plan in case of technical issues. The overall message is to focus on clearly communicating the most important messages to the audience above all other presentation elements.
18. Are
they your
financial team
waiting for the past
semester reports? Share the
best results first, ask them questions,
use graphics instead of tables, prepare handouts.
29. Ideas, thoughts
about some subjects,
images or icons that
you’d like to use,
videos or stories that
can complement your
points, how you’ll
divide your talk, etc.
30. Notice
that we don’t even
need to open PowerPoint or
Keynote for these first three tips!
35. Click to add Title
Notes No.Date
Logo
The idea of having everything ready for you to
fill up, can work for presentations that need to
be released continuously.
Some other decorative add-ons
36. Click to add Title
Notes No.Date
Logo
The idea of having everything ready for you to
fill up, can work for presentations that need to
be released continuously.
Some other decorative add-ons
But for the best presentation
you’ve ever did? We don’t think so.
38. Without limits and restrictions that
condition you along the entire presentation.
Limits
Restrictions
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• Double-click to edit
Limits
44. Just try and test
all the amazing tools
PowerPoint and Keynote
have for you (without you
even knowing*)
*Because you’ve been using templates all the time.
74. This should be the basis for the entire
process of creating a presentation.
75. Don’t let your message get lost in the middle
of complicated definitions, busy charts
and unnecessary slides. Just
focus on what’s really
important.
79. So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos,
page numbers,
79
80. 79
Keep it Simple
• This should be the basis for the entire
process of creating a presentation
• Don’t let your message get lost in the
middle of complicated definitions, busy
charts and unnecessary slides. Just
focus on what’s really
important
• Every slide should have always a clear
objective
• So don’t feel tempted to fill it with
logos, page numbers, more text…
So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos,
page numbers, more text
81. So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos,
page numbers, more text or anything else
that will end up distracting your
audience.
79
Keep it Simple
• This should be the basis for the entire
process of creating a presentation
• Don’t let your message get lost in the
middle of complicated definitions, busy
charts and unnecessary slides. Just
focus on what’s really
important
• Every slide should have always a clear
objective
• So don’t feel tempted to fill it with
logos, page numbers, more text…
82. White space is actually very
precious in graphic design.
101. Write up some notes in a few cards.
10 Killer Tips (Pt. 1)
Light in room + your audience
Intro (3min)
Operating system… problems: adapt!
10 tips introduction
Talk about personal experience (5min)
102. You’ll be
able to continue
just in case
electricity goes
down or the
projector stops
working
Believe it or not, it
happens a lot!