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PowerPoint Tips for Engaging Presentations

Learn how to hold your audience's attention with compelling PowerPoint material, avoid common mistakes, and make your presentations more impactful.

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PowerPoint Tips for Engaging Presentations

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  1. PowerPoint Hits and Misses Mr. Moore

  2. Hold up your end with compelling material • No ones likes to be bored • Bored=inattention

  3. KISS

  4. Minimize Slides • 100 slides • 10 slides

  5. Don't parrot PowerPoint • One of the most prevalent and damaging habits of PowerPoint users is to simply read the visual presentation to the audience. Not only is that redundant — short of using the clicker, why are you even there? — but it makes even the most visually appealing presentation boring to the bone. PowerPoint works best with spoken remarks that augment and discuss, rather than mimic, what's on the screen. "Even with PowerPoint, you've got to make eye contact with your audience," says Roberta Prescott of The Prescott Group, a Connecticut-based communications consulting firm. "Those people didn't come to see the back of your head."

  6. Don't parrot PowerPoint • We can read…you’re boring us again

  7. Timing is everything • Extra stimuli creates distraction

  8. Give it a rest. The Blank Screen Phenomenon

  9. Use Vibrant Colors • Doesn’t this look nicer than that plain white?

  10. Import other pic’s and graphics Don’t

  11. Handouts at the End • Limit stimuli!!! • What’s the first thing you do when you get a hand out?

  12. Edit ruthlessly before presenting. • Think you four coming too my presentation. I hop you buy my stuf ? • Yeah, I’ll pass.

  13. Sum it up • Don’t be the guy that has to end with “…and that’s it” • Use an Overview slide or close with something interesting

  14. Overview • Follow these 10 simple ideas and you’ll be making professional presentations in no time!

  15. References • http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/resources/technology/business-software/presenting-with-powerpoint-10-dos-and-donts.aspx#PresentingwithPowerPointdosanddonts

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