Presentations: 10 Tips

PRESENTATIPRESENTATIONSONS

Do’s & Don’tsDo’s & Don’ts

10 10 TIPSTIPS

95%95% OF ALL

PRESENTATIONS SUCK!

And…

DON’TDON’T BE ONE OF THEM!!

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tip 11

with time and

dedication

Prepare your

SPEECHSPEECH

STRUCTURESTRUCTURE your speech

Get monstruous VISUALVISUAL material

Get monstruous VISUALVISUAL material

Like thisLike this??

TEAMWORKTEAMWORKbe constructive and respect the others

TalkTalkto the audience

Don’t ReadDon’t Read to them

tip 22

Speak CLEARLYCLEARLY and

LOUDLYLOUDLY Show a positive and

relaxed BODY BODY LANGUAGELANGUAGE

Never

Never EVEREVER!!

Don’t read slides

Do not READREAD

your slides!

Do not TURNTURN

your back to the audience!

Do not READREAD

your slides!

your AudienceAudience came

TO LISTEN NOT READ

SLIDES SHOULD REINFORCE REINFORCE YOUR YOUR WORDS WORDS, NOT REPEAT THEM.

Make it

SimpleSimple

tip 33

AVOIDAVOID documents and condensed text

Use big-sized high quality

PicturePicturess

tip 44

…for an image is worth 1,000 WORDSWORDS!

BIGBIG images are

POWERFULPOWERFUL !!

and catch people’s

ATTENTIONATTENTION

Example.

Smoking is interesting, but it kills…

Smoking is interesting, but it

kills…

Smoking is interesting, but it

kills…

THE EARTHamazing isn’t it?

THE EARTHamazing isn’t it?

THE EARTHamazing isn’t it

Why VisualVisual?People’s ability to remember in 72

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Makepresentations

CREATIVCREATIVEE ,

coherent and interesting

tip 55

Nothing has CHANGEDCHANGED?!

TOO MUCH IN

FORMATIO

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TOO MUCH IN

FORMATIO

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ONE MESSAGE PER SLIDEONE MESSAGE PER SLIDE

ONE MESSAGE PER SLIDEONE MESSAGE PER SLIDE

Better, but still

BORINGBORING!!

Bullet points

Bullet points

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ColourColourYour slides!

tip 66

Use COLOURSCOLOURS wisely

Use COLOURSCOLOURS wisely

Follow a COLOUR COLOUR SCHEMESCHEME!

Get inspired by colour scheme

COMBINATIONSCOMBINATIONS

Get inspired by colour

COMBINATIONSCOMBINATIONS

I took this one for my presentation

Choose your

FONTSFONTS

carefully

tip 77

CreativityCreativity will make your boring font look awesomeawesome

Creativity will make your boring font look awesome

CreativityCreativity will make your boring font look awesomeawesome

Take your time to pick the best

FONT for your presentation

Take your time to pick the best

FONT for your presentation

Don’t

BOREBOREyour audience

tip 88

With

BORINGBORING information

With

BORINGBORING slides

With

BORINGBORING attitude

Be DYNAMICOne slide, one message

Be DYNAMICOne slide, one message

Use cool

INFOGRAPHICSINFOGRAPHICS to support your speech

Embed short VIDEOSVIDEOS if appropriate

Avoid content OVERLOADOVERLOADToo much info will killkill the

audience

More than 30 30 minutesminutes speaking is too

LONGLONG

Be brief and

concise, or elseor else…

More than 30 minutes speaking is too

LONG

Be brief and

concise, or else…

Be

PASSIONATPASSIONATEE while presenting

INTERACTINTERACT with the audience

Be prepared

for Q&AQ&A

PRACTICPRACTICEE

makes perfect

tip 99

Practice until it

sounds

FLUENFLUENTT

and

NATURANATURALL

DON’T PRACTICE UNTIL YOU GET IT RIGHT…

PRACTICEPRACTICEUNTIL YOUUNTIL YOU

CAN’TCAN’T GET IT GET IT

WRONG!WRONG!

Find INSPIRATIOINSPIRATIO

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Presentation

MASTERMASTERSSSteve Jobs

Al Gore

And that’s it!

A far more DECENTDECENT presentation for sure!

I hope you may find

this USEFULUSEFUL

I hope you may find

this USEFULUSEFUL

Julen QM