The trick when presenting text, like a short list of bullets, is to make your point without losing the audience. I might be presenting statistics (sparingly), recalling an experience that leads to a lesson, or teaching a lesson.īut, I always stick to one story per slide. In my 60 minute speech, I might have 30-35 slides, depending on stories I’m telling or complexity of the message. And a short list of brief bullets helps your audience follow your argument – nothing more.
We know our brain can process images some 60,000 times faster than text – using a large image gets your point across quickly, without being a distraction. Remember the theme in this post is your slides should add to your speech – not distract the audience away from you.
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Want to quickly improve a tired slide deck? Make your images larger ( in this post I share where to get free images) and reduce the text. Instead of unreadable text, use an eye-catching image and less text I create a custom theme simply with my titles, a consistent white background, and sometimes with my logo or my client’s logo. You could use the baked-in themes supplied in PowerPoint or Keynote – I don’t because I want a simpler, more unique look. Use a consistent theme.Ī consistent theme pulls together the variety in your images and message, as you move from problem to solution. Remember: every time you hit that clicker the audience leaves you and goes to the screen. Fancy transitions, YouTube clips, and tons of text steal from your content and delivery. People come to listen to you – your thoughts, interpretations and insights. Your slides are there to ADD to a well-designed speech, not replace it. Your slides are there to ADD to a well-designed speech, not to replace it. It’s like building a road – until you know where that road is heading there’s no point laying down sidewalks and planting trees. You could be tempted to start monkeying with slides early in your speech writing process – don’t.
Here are my 10 easy ways to make any PowerPoint presentation awesome. If you’ve ever struggled to create interesting slides or worry your slides are too wordy or you have too many of them, this will help. Heck, they can even make an otherwise good presentation awesome. Well-designed slides, used sparingly and with good timing can be brilliant. Bad slides, delivered badly will make your audience regret their second serving at the buffet. We’ve all suffered through horrible slide shows with long lists of unreadable bullets, pixelated clip art delivered by a speaker who constantly turns away from the audience so they can read from the screen.
Whether delivered in PowerPoint, on a PC, or Keynote, on a Mac, bad slides, delivered badly will make your audience regret their second serving at the buffet. The much-maligned PowerPoint is not dead.
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