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Are your presentations as polished and interesting as they could be or do they tend to be a little monotonous and bullet-point driven? Do you have any of your own design tips to add?
Excellent tips; I always find it difficult in selecting the color scheme. I prefer the more subtle or pastel colors in the right combination. For the most part, blue and green are my two best colors.
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I always limit the number of slides in my presentation. There's nothing worse than seeing 72 slides waiting when you're in the audience, unless it was the time when there were over 150! If you have that many, you either need to write a book on the subject, love to hear yourself talk, or are asking to be brutally beaten with your laptop halfway through the presentation.
I have found Cliff Atkinson's "Beyond Bullet Points" approach a great help. He suggests you become a story teller rather than a reader of slides. The presenter takes the focus and audience attention rather than the slide. It requires more work but it is really worth it.
When I have used this approach the audience comments after the presentation have been uniformly congratulatory. I think it is because they have not been bored with the standard PowerPoint presentation.
When I have used this approach the audience comments after the presentation have been uniformly congratulatory. I think it is because they have not been bored with the standard PowerPoint presentation.
I, like thousands of others, suffer from red-green color blindness. Those who have no experience with this do not think twice about using red or dark orange print on a dark background or black print on a red background. This is completely illegible to me. Please consider those of us with this problem the next time you choose colors. Thanks!
I tell our Sales Teams that the person who holds the purse strings is usually over 45 and probably wears glasses. If they cannot see the presentation easily, because the colours are too gaudy, you have lost them before you even begin talking. So we suggest dark text on light background or light text on dark background and not to use any more than three major colours in the scheme.
Following your guidelines one has to assume most of the information content in the presentation is verbal. The slides are merely glorified wallpaper, useless bulk as handouts. Nothing wrong with that. I guess it depends on how much you want the listeners (most likely managers, based your tips) to retain. See sales. Sales are up. Up sales up!
Not often I belly-laugh out of TR discussion posts - and much needed today - thanx!
(BTW, I really did think it was a nice article.)
(BTW, I really did think it was a nice article.)
Smells like a dieing goose with a kazoo stuck down its throat
i find it good but i think, your 5th guideline is not appropriate cause there are many power point templates that are good to use.
for samples, visit :
http://www.free-power-point-templates.com/
for samples, visit :
http://www.free-power-point-templates.com/
You seem to have missed the point - all the templates on the link you provided contain unnecessary "stuff" that would get in the way of a message. This links back to point 1 (Keep it simple). Why would I want a template with images of coloured pencils unless I was doing a presentation on the use of coloured pencils (unlikely!).
Simply wonderful!!!!
Helpful article.
Thank you!
Thank you!
For one to appreciate this article, he or she must be someone who is willing to accept the idea of others to make him or herself better at doing presentations. Some people tend to think that what they're doing is already good enough that they dismiss these very important points. The truth is that the audience just won't tell you that you actually sucked in your presentation. For me, I believe that the effectiveness of a presentation is really dependent on one single metric: if you were able to get the message across or not.
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