TJ Walker's Secret to Foolproof Presentations by T J Walker

Author:T J Walker [Walker, T J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AkashKaria.com
Published: 2016-05-12T18:30:00+00:00

What do I really need to know about PowerPoint in order to use it effectively?

There are 20,465 books on PowerPoint for sale on Amazon.com, which means that there are more than four million pages of content you could read to learn about how to use all the bells and whistles of PowerPoint! You don’t have to read them all. In fact, if you just follow the ten tips below, you will consistently be the most effective user of PowerPoint anyone in your audience has ever seen.

Create two separate sets of PowerPoint slides: one for projecting on a screen, and one to both e-mail to audience members in advance and hand out after your presentation. Your e-mail/print PowerPoint slides can be jam-packed with words, numbers, text, data points—make it two hundred pages if you like. (Note that Tips number 2 through 10 apply just to the PowerPoint slides you are projecting.)

Useimages, charts, pictures, videoclips, or anyother visual element.

Focus on one idea per slide. One means “one.” It doesn’t mean cram four charts that cover the same basic topic onto one slide.

Don’t use ANY text. This is not a typo. You can call me insane. You can complain that your corporate culture demands that you use text. I’m telling you, text doesn’t work when you are projecting on a screen twenty, thirty, or fifty feet away from people. This is not how human beings like to read.

Use as many slides as you need.

Don’t use any slide unless it makes your idea more clear and memorable than you simply saying it.

If you want people to look at your slide, then stop talking long enough for them to do so.

If you want people to listen to you, then don’t have a slide up behind you to distract them.

Remember, you are the star of the presentation, not the PowerPoint slides.

You aren’t prepared to use PowerPoint unless you can give the whole presentation without the ability to show the slides (because projectors and computers can malfunction).

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