The document provides tips for making effective presentations. It recommends practicing your presentation to ensure it is smooth and memorized. Introduce yourself if presenting to an unfamiliar audience. Keep presentations simple by limiting information per slide and time spent on each topic. Avoid overusing bullet points, silly images, transitions, and handouts. Use color, large fonts, and professional graphics to emphasize key points. Follow the 10/20/30 rule of 10 slides maximum, 20 minute speech, and 30 point minimum font size. Consider alternative presentation platforms like Prezi and practice extensively.

1. Making Effective Presentations
Key Steps to Success

2. First the basics…..
• Allow for ample time to prepare and
practice your presentation. Practice going
over the presentation until it is memorized
and executed smoothly.
• Make sure to include a brief introduction
about yourself and who you are especially
if you are speaking and presenting in front
of a group that are not familiar with you.

3. A few important guidelines
• Keep it simple.
– This can be done by limiting the amount of
information put on each slide along with the
amount of time you spend talking about a
topic. Staying on topic is a must!
– Less is more. Use key words rather than long
descriptive sentences.

4. Avoid the following
 Overuse of bullet points and
check marks 
Silly images
Transitions such as ‘fade-ins’
or spinning text
Handouts and print outs (wait
until after the presentation)
Music that is generic or
already imbedded into the
programSource: Pinola, 2013

5. What you should do
• Color and Large font can be used to
emphasize key points in the presentation
• Professional graphics can be used to
promote key points.

6. The 10/20/30 Rule
• Limit your presentation to ten slides maximum
• Limit your speech to 20 minutes
• Use a minimum 30pt font size
(Pinola, 2013)

7. Think outside the box
• PowerPoint is not the only presentation
platform
• Prezi, Haiku Dek and Reveal.js are viable
alternatives to using traditional PowerPoint
templates.
• Videoscribe and GoAnimate offer award
winning animated presentation tools that
are professional and engaging

8. When in doubt
• Practice, practice, practice.
• The more you practice your presentations
the better you will become
• Increasing your presentation skills will help
you in your career by demonstrating that
you can deliver a precise and professional
presentation to an audience.

9. 3 P’s of Powerful Presentations
Plan
Prepare
Practice

10. Conclusion
• Creating a presentation that delivers the
message and engages the audience takes
a little time, research, practice and format.
• Following a few simple guidelines will help
make your presentation interesting and
professional.