1. Making better PowerPoint Presentations
How can I make it better?
Making better PowerPoint Presentations
Itunuoluwa Isewon
Executive Advance 2015

2. 1 Start with the end in mind Outlining your content
Have a sound, clear structure
The art of story telling
An outstanding 1 hour presentation can take 30 hours or more of prep time.

3. 2
AVOID
Sliduments
Slides are not documents. Break it up! An extra slide costs nothing.
Your slides are a visual aid and should not replace you as the presenter.
Make your lecture notes into a separate document and use slides to guide the lecture delivery
The slides should only contain the main points which the presenter will speak to.
Use points or phrases not sentences
This approach fosters class interaction, participation and enforce the students to take note.

5. People should get your message in 3 seconds
View every slide as an advertisement that should catch people’s attention

6. 3
KEEP IT
Simple

7. With text less is MORE!
Go easy on effects and transitions

8. 4 Infographics USE Infograpics are amazing
Use Photos that enhance meaning
Not Fine Art
Use HD Graphics
Use Charts appropriately

9. Images say more than a thousand words
Images tend to capture peoples attention and make the message more powerful

10. 5 Contrast USE Use dark background on matching light colours
Default templates, default fonts, default colours are not creative. Sometimes students get bored when our slides look the same all the time.
Choose a colour scheme and stick to it
Choose colours that reflect the tone of your presentation

13. 6
Big Fonts
Use interesting fonts

14. A good way to approach a presentation is to spend some time thinking about the key messages you want your audience to remember. In other words, if I bumped into a participant outside of the venue and asked them what your talk was about…what would they tell me? If you start planning your presentation by defining your key messages, it’s easy to work backwards and structure your entire presentation to support these.
This is a version of the elevator test or elevator pitch, which challenges a person to provide a short and compelling summary of an idea or proposition to another person in the time it would take to complete a short elevator trip, approximately 30 seconds.

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