10 Killer Tips for an Amazing Presentation - Way Before You Actually Give One
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This document provides 10 tips for preparing an effective presentation before actually giving it. The tips include knowing your audience and purpose, outlining your content, avoiding templates, reducing text, using simple fonts and layouts, limiting content to 1 point per slide, keeping it simple, and being aware of any presentation guidelines. It emphasizes starting preparation offline without technology, letting visuals support the presenter rather than replace them, and always having a backup plan in case of technical issues. The overall message is to focus on clearly communicating the most important messages to the audience above all other presentation elements.
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10 Killer Tips for an Amazing Presentation - Way Before You Actually Give One
- 1. An Amazing Presentation 10 Killer Tips for (Way Before You Actually Give One)
- 2. Being effective as a presenter is really difficult, and you have to think about many things even before giving your actual presentation.
- 3. Things like the light of the room
- 4. The amount of people in the audience
- 5. Or the type of operating system the computer you’ll be using actually has.
- 6. Because let’s face it, sometimes things don’t come out as you planned them.
- 7. And it’s exactly when those things happen, that you have to be one step ahead and adapt to the new situation.
- 8. With that in mind, we’ve decided to give you 10 tips to read before you prepare your next big presentation. 10
- 11. Remember that it’s all about them.
- 13. You’ve been chosen to teach your audience something that will benefit them
- 14. So don’t bore them with useless information or too much data. z zz
- 15. Put yourself in their shoes.
- 16. Analyze how they’re more likely to process the information you’re preparing.
- 17. Are they teenagers? Include images, and videos, popular references and talk to them casually.
- 18. Are they your financial team waiting for the past semester reports? Share the best results first, ask them questions, use graphics instead of tables, prepare handouts.
- 19. Each audience is unique, so make sure that you adapt your presentation to your audience.
- 21. Your audience has to leave the room with a single thing in their mind…
- 22. what you want for them to do, reflect, remember, think.
- 23. That’s why you actually have to and build the rest of the presentation from there. start with the end in mind
- 24. Just ask yourself: “If the audience could remember only one thing from my talk, what would I want it to be?”
- 25. When you know the answer to this question, everything will be easier. So structure your presentation around that.
- 27. There’s nothing better than using pen and paper to sketch how your presentation will flow.
- 28. Just write everything you can come up with…
- 29. Ideas, thoughts about some subjects, images or icons that you’d like to use, videos or stories that can complement your points, how you’ll divide your talk, etc.
- 30. Notice that we don’t even need to open PowerPoint or Keynote for these first three tips!
- 31. Which is actually an important point!
- 32. Starting offline and away from your computer will help you get inspired and boost your creativity.
- 34. The truth is that you don’t really need them.
- 35. Click to add Title Notes No.Date Logo The idea of having everything ready for you to fill up, can work for presentations that need to be released continuously. Some other decorative add-ons
- 36. Click to add Title Notes No.Date Logo The idea of having everything ready for you to fill up, can work for presentations that need to be released continuously. Some other decorative add-ons But for the best presentation you’ve ever did? We don’t think so.
- 37. You should start with a blank slide and nothing else.
- 38. Without limits and restrictions that condition you along the entire presentation. Limits Restrictions 38 Double-click to edit • Double-click to edit Limits
- 39. Just a blank slide in front of you.
- 40. And you start to see all the amazing possibilities that come with that…
- 42. A text-box with a single message on it. TOGETHER WE CREATE.
- 44. Just try and test all the amazing tools PowerPoint and Keynote have for you (without you even knowing*) *Because you’ve been using templates all the time.
- 46. Text is virtually useless when you’re talking in front of your slides.
- 48. Actually, the best slides are the ones with no text at all.
- 49. When you let images, icons and graphics illustrate and explain your thoughts, points and ideas.
- 50. Remember that slides are there to support you, not to make you invisible.
- 51. So, learn to see what’s important and what’s not, what you can include in the slides and what you can actually talk about in further detail.
- 52. Make itLE GI BLE
- 53. Use a font style that is simple and clear.
- 54. * A French/Dutch term meaning “without outside lines” When it comes to slides, we recommend using Sans Serif* fonts
- 56. They all have plain straight lines and shapes, which means they are easy to read when projected.
- 57. (Also known as Serif fonts.) Times New Roman, Courier New, Georgia, Rockwell… or Unlike
- 58. … that have extra decorative details outside their letter lines.
- 59. And now that you already know which types of fonts work better in presentations,
- 61. BIG Really Like…
- 62. Big enough to be read at a distance of 4 meters.
- 63. 60 pts. 90 pts. 120 pts. 30 pts. A good rule of thumb is to never use font sizes that are less than
- 65. Nothing is more powerful than a message delivered effectively as an ad in a magazine or a billboard.
- 66. A powerful image and just the right amount of information.
- 67. 1 That’s why you need to limit your ideas to per slide 1
- 68. Especially if you have lots of information. In that case, break it up into more than one slide.
- 69. The points per slide are important too Try to limit them to 3 per slide To not overload it with too many things One Two Three
- 70. Because just like an ad, the audience should be able to grasp your points in less than 5seconds
- 72. So your audience can actually listen to what you have to say instead of reading what’s on your slides.
- 73. Keep itSIM PL E
- 74. This should be the basis for the entire process of creating a presentation.
- 75. Don’t let your message get lost in the middle of complicated definitions, busy charts and unnecessary slides. Just focus on what’s really important.
- 76. Every slide should have always a clear objective.
- 77. So don’t feel tempted to fill it with
- 78. So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos,
- 79. So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos, page numbers, 79
- 80. 79 Keep it Simple • This should be the basis for the entire process of creating a presentation • Don’t let your message get lost in the middle of complicated definitions, busy charts and unnecessary slides. Just focus on what’s really important • Every slide should have always a clear objective • So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos, page numbers, more text… So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos, page numbers, more text
- 81. So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos, page numbers, more text or anything else that will end up distracting your audience. 79 Keep it Simple • This should be the basis for the entire process of creating a presentation • Don’t let your message get lost in the middle of complicated definitions, busy charts and unnecessary slides. Just focus on what’s really important • Every slide should have always a clear objective • So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos, page numbers, more text…
- 82. White space is actually very precious in graphic design.
- 83. powerfulRespect it and you’ll see how powerful your message becomes.
- 85. Almost every presentation has to adjust itself to some guidelines.
- 86. And it’s your job to find out what they are and plan your talk according to them.
- 87. Like knowing if you’re allowed to use your computer or not.
- 88. If your version of Microsoft Office is supported. !
- 89. If the operating system is either Microsoft or Apple.
- 90. 4:3 Standard If slides need to be widescreen or standard. 16:9 Widescreen
- 91. If you need to install other fonts or just use the ones that comes with Office. Aa
- 92. If you’re allowed to use a pointer.
- 93. If they have a remote or you need to bring your own.
- 94. You can’t leave anything by chance!
- 95. Because the real success of your presentation depends even of the things you can’t completely control.
- 96. Always BACK UP
- 98. You have to be ready to face them in case something happens while you’re presenting.
- 99. Save your presentation as a PDF.
- 100. Take a printable version of it with you.
- 101. Write up some notes in a few cards. 10 Killer Tips (Pt. 1) Light in room + your audience Intro (3min) Operating system… problems: adapt! 10 tips introduction Talk about personal experience (5min)
- 102. You’ll be able to continue just in case electricity goes down or the projector stops working Believe it or not, it happens a lot!
- 103. But technical issues don’t have to limit you!
- 104. If you follow these tips carefully, you’ll be ready to continue and deliver an amazing presentation with or without slides.
- 105. The stage is all yours now.
- 106. But before we go...
- 107. We have 3 more things to tell you.
- 108. If you liked these tips Share them!
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- 110. If you think we can help you with your next presentation Let us know!
- 111. www.slidestudio.co