This presentation provides information on how to make effective and beautiful presentations. The views illustrated in the slide are of Garr Reynolds, who is a world renowned expert on presentation making. Submitted by Prakhar Singh Under the guidance of Prof. Sameer Mathur

1. Garr Reynolds
How to make a Good
Presentations
Better

3. Why Presentations
Matter?

4. If the lone goal is transfer of
information, distribute a hand-out and
cancel the presentation.
- Garr Reynolds

5. Bad Presentation Good Presentation

6. PowerPoint could be the most powerful tool on
your computer. But it’s not.
Countless innovations fail because their champions use
PowerPoint the way Microsoft wants them to, instead
of the “right way”.

7. 3-Step Framework for
Presentation

8. Prepare

9. get some alone
time and think of
what’s important

10. prepare the
structure of your
presentation before
starting PowerPoint

11. start analog,
don’t start at your
computer

12. think of 2 or 3 most
important points about
your presentation that
you want everybody
else to remember

13. Before putting
anything in the
presentation, ask
“SO WHAT?”

14. Design

16. use good fonts,
don’t use PowerPoint’s
basic fonts like
Times, Calibri, Comic Sans

17. use contrast,
contrasting colour
scheme

18. use good & high quality
visuals, don’t use low
resolution & irrelevant
images

19. Use before-after
sequence for showing
change and making
the slides interactive
Before After

20. but remember beauty
matters but content
also matters. Don’t
just go on removing
everything

21. Deliver

22. There are two types of
speakers, those that are
nervous and those
that are liars.
- Mark Twain

23. Never read out your
slides

24. Logic isn’t enough,
“emotion” is necessary.
Tell a story to engage
with the audience

25. Jobsian
• Less is More
• Simple
• Clear
Lessig
• Using videos to
engage the
audience
Takahashi
• One word per slide
• Huge amount of
slides
Ballmer
• Passion
• Be in the moment
• Enthusiasm

26. Thank
You