Presentations

Jason R. Picardo
Chemical Engineering
Handout: Checklist for planning the talk

• Transform the ideas of the audience (who?)

• Classic Style:
• Identify the key message
• take the audience on a journey to the perfect vantage point
• let them discover/understand/appreciate for themselves
• Use introduction to create sense of crisis: demand-supply
• Ordering and time per idea should be based on the audience,
not the work you did
• Assertion-Evidence based slides; Show, don’t tell (avoids
jargon)
• Historical and humorous asides as breakpoints
• Use analogies and metaphors for methods/quantitative results
• Start and End broadly
• Plan the talk in detail before making slides
Handout: Checklist for making slides

• One idea per slide or less

• Uncluttered slides: Less than 6 objects simultaneously

• Use “appear” animation, changes in contrast to direct audience

• Minimize text; no paragraphs

• Use contrast and size to your advantage

• Don’t use low-information, high-contrast titles

• Use dark and empty slides as break points

• Don’t waste the Title, Outline, Concluding and Q+A slides