10 tips for a better presentation

By kundai

Think about your main message, structure its supporting points, practice it and time it. Don’t spend to much time rehearsing what your slides will finally be about, but do endure long and hard thoughts about the topics in which your slides will include.

THINK BEFORE YOU START

Remember to remain consistent during your explanations. Stay on task and keep a continuous flow of connections running through your slides and don’t allow yourself to detour off topic, talking about something else irrelevant.

STAY CONSISTENT

STATE YOUR MAIN MESSEGE

Remind yourself what it is you are trying to explain and demonstrate. You have an objective and you have to ask yourself if you remember reaching that objective, making it clear why

the presentation is happening in the first place.

SMOOTH TRANSISTIONS

Don’t mistake a smooth transition from consistency. Sure it has to relate to each other, but keep it like family, the same but they look different. Your work all links together but it shouldn’t look exactly the same, make your transitions from topic to topic as smooth as possible but highlighting the difference in the subject matter and

you will keep your audience alert.

SAME TOPIC, CHANGE SUBJECT

Keep the information you are giving about the same topic, talking about the one thing that your whole presentation is based on but change the subject within the topic, keeping your audience intrigued, attentive and engaged with the changes

and differences within the topic you have chosen.

KEEP YOUR TYPOGRAPHY RELATED

You must keep your language and typography the same. If you have an informative piece of text, you wouldn’t go off on a tangent using informal language so you must

make it all link. Keep your technique of arranging your type language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. Keep it neat, making sure your arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point size, line length, line-spacing (leading), letter-

spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space within letters pairs.

REMEMBER,LESS IS MORE

One thing to avoid—slides with a lot of text, especially if it’s a repeat of what you’re saying out loud. Remember not to overload your audience

with too much information as it makes it harder for them to comprehend what it is you are trying to make. It’s like if you give a paper handout in a meeting—everyone’s head goes down and they read, rather than staying heads-up and listening. If there are a lot of

words on your slide, you’re asking your audience to split their attention between what they’re reading and what they’re hearing.

KEEP AUDIENCE ATTENTIVEAvoid giving hand-outs to your audience as it diverts your

audiences attention, making them lose focus on what you’re saying. Keep them focused, intrigued and curious to what

your presentation is about and they will remember.

It is just the beginning and remember… the best is yet to come.