What Can Make Or Break Your PowerPoint Presentation

What Can Make Or Break Your PowerPoint Presentation

At a workshop recently I heard somebody giving a talk which was really fascinating and I took away some valuable points from it. So it bought me thinking about what makes a great presentation. Now, I've designed quite a lot of PowerPoint displays in my time but I've delivered very few of them. Like lots of people, the thought of standing up in front of a bunch makes me nervous. Nonetheless, others can get up for an hour and speak off the cuff about their topic, and make it fascinating and memorable. How do they do it? OK, there are a number of people who find themselves natural public speakers, however for most of us, it takes a whole lot of preparation to face up and speak clearly and concisely about our subject.

So from my experience of each creating and listening to presentations, I've put collectively some suggestions of what I think can make or break a presentation.

Do

Rehearse your speech and ideally get someone to listen to you or file yourself.
Use humour and a personal story to open the presentation however be appropriate.
Know the message you are attempting to get throughout and stick to the key points.
Keep the color scheme easy and make sure the textual content is readable against the background.
Have the same slide design all through the whole presentation.
Put your company branding and brand on the presentation to make it look professional and assist build a relationship with your brand and the audience.
Keep animations and transitions to a minimal so they do not confuse and distract the audience.
Use creative ways of presenting your info eg, pictures, charts, and animations which will grab people's attention.
Don't

Speak without any preparation or notes unless you have performed it successfully before.
Start the presentation without checking that everyone can hear you.
Don't wander off the subject, and if you do, make sure the viewers knows why and quickly come back to it.
Use technical language, acronyms or jargon unless it is relevant on your audience.
Read from a script - it can sound stilted and prevents you from making eye contact with the audience.
Put everything you wish to say on the PowerPoint slide after which just read it out.
Overload the slide with too much graphics or animation. They should be used to make the message clearer not confuse the audience.
Use different formatting and colour schemes on every slide.
Maybe you may have other tricks to add to the list? Nonetheless, it's vital to remember that a clearly delivered and well-designed presentation will promote you and what you are promoting professionally and successfully to your audience.

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