Ten Great Ideas for Fantastic Presentations
1. Start with an outline.
• Write an outline of what you want to cover.
• Develop three to five major points you want your audience to remember.
• Remember that less is more. So, don’t tell the audience too much.
• Don’t bore the audience.
• Give your presentation a strong beginning, middle, and end.
• Build slides from your outline.
• Avoid Microsoft templates. People have seen them to the point of boredom. Same goes for Apple/Macintosh. (Note: This rule may be violated if you work for an organization that requires all presentations to follow a common format or template.)
2. Tell them one thing at a time.
• Cover only one main idea per slide.
• Limit sub points to three and show them as bullets.
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