How To make Good

Presentation
Presentation Skill
1. Show your Passion and Connect with your Audience
It’s hard to be relaxed and be yourself when you’re nervous.

2. Focus on your Audience’s Needs

Your presentation needs to be built around what your audience is going to get out of them presentation.

3. Keep it Simple:
Concentrate on your Core Message

4. Smile and Make Eye Contact with your Audience

This sounds very easy, but a surprisingly large number of presenters fail to do it.
5. Start Strongly
The beginning of your presentation is crucial. You need to grab your audience’s attention and hold it.
6. Remember the 10-20-30 Rule for Slideshows
slideshows should:
• Contain no more than 10 slides;
• Last no more than 20 minutes; and
• Use a font size of no less than 30 point.

7. Tell Stories
Human beings are programmed to respond to stories.
Powerpoints Deck Rules
1. BUILD YOUR SLIDES LAST.
You could be tempted to start monkeying with slides early in your speech writing process – don’t. It’s
like building a road – until you know where that road is heading there’s no point laying down sidewalks
and planting trees. Your slides are there to ADD to a well-designed speech, not to replace it.

2. DON’T TRY TO REPLACE YOU.

People come to listen to you – your thoughts, interpretations and insights. Fancy transitions, YouTube
clips, and tons of text steal from your content and delivery.
Remember: every time you hit that clicker the audience leaves you and goes to the screen.

3. USE A CONSISTENT THEME.

A consistent theme pulls together the variety in your images and message, as you move from problem
to solution. You could use the baked-in themes supplied in PowerPoint or Keynote – I don’t because I
want a simpler, more unique look.
 4. MORE IMAGE, LESS TEXT.

4. MORE IMAGE, LESS TEXT.

5. ONE STORY PER SLIDE.
Each slide represents a complete story. We might be presenting statistics (sparingly), recalling an
experience that leads to a lesson, or teaching a lesson.
6. REVEAL ONE BULLET AT A TIME.
7. LEAVE THE FIREWORKS TO DISNEY.
Your job is to make you the star. Simple transitions, clean fonts and large, attractive graphics
trumps PowerPoint tricks, every time.

8. USE THE 2/4/8 RULE.

10. WHEN IN DOUBT, DUMP IT.

If you’re Al Gore explaining trends in CO2 emissions, slides can be essential – they can also be a
distraction. When I’m struggling, trying to decide if I need a slide, or not, I ask myself: “Will it
make my speech better?” If not, I dump it.