Is Your Presentation Based on a Great Idea?
Even before you open MS PowerPoint to create your presentation, sit yourself down and go over the main idea of your presentation. What do you really want to convey to your audience? Write down whatever...
View ArticleUse PowerPoint’s Built-In Special Effects to Your Advantage
Let’s begin with the simplest tools available in PowerPoint. Text effects, picture effects, highlighting and shading tricks, let’s read more about how these can add to audience recall. PowerPoint lets...
View ArticleFollow PowerPoint Best Practices
PowerPoint gurus are prone to giving us huge lists of PowerPoint do’s and don’ts. It is impossible to follow all of them in every presentation, but it will certainly help you if you follow the basic...
View ArticleKnow the Power of an Incomplete Sentence or Diagram
An incomplete sentence or diagram – but doesn’t that amount to an incomplete presentation? No, not if your intention is to get your audience thinking. And we all know that when something we see...
View ArticleVisuals Will Help You
Why are bullet points so ineffective? They are boring. They make presentations a bore. Therefore, the way out is to convert boring bullet points into interesting visuals. Here is a video from m62 that...
View ArticleUse a Mix of Carefully Chosen Visual Elements
Yes we already spoke about the role visuals play in audience recall. Visuals are helpful but using a mix of them guarantees audience recall. So sprinkle each presentation with a healthy mix of...
View ArticleAdd Humor to Your Presentations
What is life without a few laughs and light moments? Humor adds value to your presentations too. In fact the more technical and serious your topic is, the more you should take care to incorporate a few...
View ArticleLess is More
You have surely heard this one before. Yet, it is a mistake that we make over and over again. In our enthusiasm, we tend to stuff our slides with information. We tend to explain it all. We tend to go...
View ArticleMind the Language
This one may seem a no-brainer, but an astounding number of presenters don’t pay attention to their language, and therefore this topic definitely warrants a mention on this list. Your language both on...
View ArticleMake It Interactive
A two-way exchange of ideas and knowledge is much better than a one-way discourse. When you invite interaction you ‘draw in’ the audience, and they tend to contribute, participate and ‘take home’ key...
View ArticlePresentation Tips : Less is More
You have surely heard some of the practical presentation tips before. Yet, it is a mistake that we make over and over again. In our enthusiasm, we tend to stuff our slides with information. We tend to...
View ArticleDitch the Bullet Points – Make an Impact with Infographics
Why are bullet points so ineffective? They are boring. They make presentations a bore. Therefore, the way out is to convert boring bullet points into interesting visuals by using compelling...
View ArticleAdd Humor to Your Presentations
What is life without a few laughs and light moments? Humor adds value to your presentations too. In fact the more technical and serious your topic is, the more you should take care to incorporate a...
View ArticleMake Presentations Interactive
A two-way exchange of ideas and knowledge is much better than a one-way discourse. When you invite interaction you ‘draw in’ the audience, and they tend to contribute, participate and ‘take home’ key...
View ArticlePowerPoint Do’s and Don’ts
PowerPoint gurus are prone to giving us huge lists of PowerPoint do’s and don’ts. It is impossible to follow all of them in every presentation, but it will certainly help you if you follow the basic...
View ArticleUse a Mix of Carefully Chosen Visual Elements
Yes we already spoke about the role visuals play in audience recall. Visuals are helpful but using a mix of them guarantees audience recall. So sprinkle each presentation with elements of visual design...
View ArticleBuilt-in PowerPoint Special Effects Come to your Rescue
Let’s begin with the simplest tools available in PowerPoint. Text effects, picture effects, highlighting and shading tricks, let’s read more about how these can add to audience recall. PowerPoint lets...
View ArticleMind the Language
This presentation tip may seem a no-brainer, but an astounding number of presenters don’t pay attention to their language, and therefore this topic definitely warrants a mention on this list. Your...
View ArticleKnow the Power of an Incomplete Sentence or Diagram
You’ll find hundreds of presentation skills tips on the internet. Have you heard of this one? We bet you haven’t! An incomplete sentence or diagram – but doesn’t that amount to an incomplete...
View ArticleIs Your Presentation Based on a Great Idea?
Even before you open MS PowerPoint to create your presentation, sit yourself down and go over the main idea of your presentation. What do you really want to convey to your audience? Write down whatever...
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