creating and speaking from a presentation steven reid 1
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Creating and Speaking from a Presentation
Steven Reid
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Creating and Speaking from a Presentation
• Purpose of Powerpoint• Creating a Powerpoint• Speaking from a Powerpoint
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The Purpose of a Presentation
A presentation is about communication
What message do you want your audience to
leave with?
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The Purpose of a Presentation
PowerPoint is a tool to ASSIST you, not do the work
for you.
The audience came to hear you
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The Purpose of a Presentation
Use the slides to REINFORCE what your
saying, not repeat it
Don’t make PowerPoint do all the work
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Creating a PowerPoint
LESS IS MORE!
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Creating a Powerpoint
Create a logical flow of ideas
Think of your presentation as a story
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Creating a Powerpoint
Avoid templates
Don’t give your presentation a generic
look
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Creating a Powerpoint
Choose color carefully
Bad combinations of colors can make your
presentation difficult to read
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Creating a Powerpoint
No more than 20 words on a slide
Never include long paragraphs in a presentation. The audience will not want to read all the information you have on a slide. Also if they are spending all that time reading your slides, they are probably not listening to you. Remember, they came to hear you speak, not read your presentation.
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Creating a Powerpoint
Make sure you use a readable font
• Just because a font is pretty, doesn’t mean it’s right for your presentation.
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Creating a Powerpoint
Choose an appropriate size for your fonts
The guy in the back row needs to be able to read it too.
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Creating a Powerpoint
Quality, audience appropriate pictures only
Choose striking images that show the emotion of your
presentation
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Creating a Powerpoint
Use charts and graphs to show RELEVANT information
Spreadsheets and lists of data should not be included or
used carefully
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Creating a Powerpoint
Limited, or better yet, no animations
WOW
Sensory
Overload
What is going on here?
Animation is fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Creating a Powerpoint
Limited or no sound effects.
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Speaking from a Powerpoint
Make yourself cue cards
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Speaking from a Powerpoint
Do not read from screen
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Speaking from a Powerpoint
Practice beforehand
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Speaking from a Powerpoint
Give them a written copy AFTER you've spoken
(not before)
You want the audience listening to YOU,
not reading ahead.
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Speaking from a Powerpoint
Don’t let this happen to you!
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