2. A “How to” Guide for a Better Presentation 12 Easy Steps to Follow Presentation Guidelines By: Mr. Pace

3. Step 1-Know Your Audience Define your Audience Develop the Directions Know your audience and think about what interests they have in the topic you’re presenting

4. Step 2- ”Content is King” Worry about your design last CLARITYMake sure your message has CLARITY

5. Step 3- Get a Color Wheel Understanding what colors look good together Primary Colors Yellow –Red, Yellow, and Blue Secondary Colors –Green, Orange, and Purple Aggressive / Warm Colors Yellow –Red, Orange, and Yellow Receding / Cool Colors –Blue, Green, and Purple

6. Step 4- Use Your Color Wheel Remind yourself of good color management Notice what colors compliment each other Know what colors detract from each other

7. Step 5- “Keep it simple stupid” - KISS Keep your slide display easy to read and understand Don’t crowd the screen with clip-art Keep the transitions and animations simple and discreet

8. Step 6- Fonts are like Donuts Never eat/use more than three Keep fonts consistent Same font for all titles Second font for your text Never use non-standard fonts

9. Step 7- Consistency Don’t use animation or sound effects just because you can Practice good ‘effect management’ When in doubt don’t do it

10. Step 8- Think before using the header / footer Things which can be added: –Date –Number of slides –A blank box for your name, department, or the title of your favorite Elvis Presley song –Think about the information and the audience viewing it

11. Step 9- Stop. Look. Dial-up. The more complex the background and clip-art, the bigger the PowerPoint file Keep the backgrounds solid colors or simple template images, therefore the PowerPoint files will stay lean in size

12. Step 10- Murphy’s Law Always use your own gear –light ware, laptop, projector Always have a backup –Have a technology and a non-technology oriented backup –Burn a CD –Have a copy of a zip disk Always take it to a similar presentation venue

13. Step 11- Combating Murphy’s Law First, do a dry run Second, provide a downloadable version of your presentation Finally, provide a low-band width version of your presentation And Again-

14. Step 12- Repeat Once you have run through each of these steps, don’t just follow the steps for one presentation or an occasional speech, make it a part of the preparation process…

15. Conclusion Developing PowerPoint presentations goes back to the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you Develop Presentations that you would find inviting and easy to understand Adopted from Matthew A. Christian