This document provides tips for effective presentations. It emphasizes the importance of having a clear purpose and understanding your audience. Presentations should have a basic structure with an introduction, body, and conclusion. Key points are the only things that should appear on slides, with no more than 5 bullet points per slide. Images should be chosen carefully and support the content. Font size and color choices can impact readability. The best presentations engage the audience with stories and avoid overly designed templates.
7. Basic structure
Tell them what
you are going to
tell them
Tell them
Them them what
you told them
(and why)
Beginning
Middle
End
Grab attention
Detail
Clear conclusion
8. What goes on a slide?
Key point…
…and nothing more
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9. A decidedly generic, meaningless and
rather long title
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My first bullet point
My second bullet point
My third bullet point
Oh, look! Another bullet point
Five bullet points now
Six, and yet we continue…
OK seven is surely enough?
And let’s not
forget this thing
over here that’s
even more
important!
10. If bullets = key points
5 bullets per slide
=
50
x
10 slides
key points for audience to remember?!
22. Typefaces have a profound effect
on the readability of your slide
Typefaces have a profound effect
on the readability of your slide
Typefaces have a profound effect
on the readability of your slide
23. Typefaces have a profound effect
on the readability of your slide: Times NR
Typefaces have a profound effect
on the readability of your slide: Georgia
Typefaces have a profound effect
on the readability of your slide: Cambria
24. Typefaces have a profound effect
on the readability of your slide: Arial
Typefaces have a profound effect
on the readability of your slide: Berlin
Typefaces have a profound effect
on the readability of your slide: Calibri
25. So does font size: 12
So does font size: 24
So does font size: 36
So does font size: 48
30. But the same rules apply, as ever. Adding too much
text, or using the wrong formatting can seriously
impede on the success of your slides and make them
incomprehensible to your audience.
Who want’s to read on screen a big block of squished
up text, centre-aligned, when the presenter reads it
out? Especially if there is a glaring typo distracting
you.
