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How to create a good presentation.
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When you are planning a web conference, and e-learning session or a sales presentation, you should always use a PowerPoint presentation, or other type of presentation, in order to give visual impact to what you are saying. Remember, even with a webcam and voice, you will always increase the impact of your message with an image, a display of what you are communicating or a simple bullet list of the topics treated. Here is how you can create a good presentation.
1. A few basic guides:
The presentation should follow a natural sequence and follow an idea like a conversation.
Use only one idea per slide.
The first slide should have the title of your presentation, as well as your name.
The second slide should be a simple introduction of what you will present.
Use a conclusion to communicate what you want people to remember.
Have periodic outline slides to highlight where you are during the presentation.
2. How to ensure quality:
Practice, Practice, Practice. The more you rehearse, the better it will be.
Your speech should complement the information on the slides. Dont just read.
Be enthusiastic.
Manage different tones: ask rhetorical questions, act surprised, etc.
Humor is very useful and it can warm up the atmosphere, prepare a couple of puns and jokes -but if you're not good with jokes, better avoid them altogether. Improvising humor is very dangerous, as it takes a lot of tact.
Pause or slow down to give people time to think about the important facts.
Plan and time your presentation and dont go over the time.
During the question period, listen to the questions very carefully.
A common mistake is to not answer the actual question asked.
3. Deliver the content:
Use short titles on your slides.
Use uniform capitalization rules.
Keep font and paragraph styles consistent through the presentation
Put very little text on a slide
Do not put useless graphics on each slide: logos, grids, affiliations, etc.
Don't use small fonts.
IMPORTANT: Spell-check. A spelling mistake is an attention magnet.
4. Slide design
Prefer an image to text to illustrate your message.
Do not put in the figures with too many details that you will not explain.
Color-code your information, but don't use too many different colors, and use high-contrast colors.
A few real photos related to your subject can also create impact.
Real photos are much more effective during the core of the presentation than during the introduction.
Sometimes a matte pastel background looks much better than a white one.
Use strong colors for important elements, and pastel colors for the unimportant elements.
5. The use of graphs
Don't put useless information in result graphs
Label very clearly the axes of the graphs. Explain the un-obvious ones.
Use large fonts for labels; the default fonts in Excel are too small.
Discuss the results numbers in detail
Good luck and have a good presentation!
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