Powerpoint Presentation Tips
TIPS FOR A PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION
You’ve worked hard to put together the research you want to share with your colleagues -make sure that effort pays off by creating a presentation that your audience will remember and appreciate.
Preparation Points
On average, you should budget one hour of writing and practice for each minute you speak. A 15-minute presentation should be backed up by 15 hours of preparation and practice.
A rule of thumb is also that a good slide or sheet takes on average 2 to 3 minutes to present. So for a 15 minute presentation you have to condense your contribution to 5 to 8 sheets.
Rehearse your presentation several times before you leave for the meeting. Prepare and rehearse enough that you don’t rely heavily on your visual aids to keep you on track.
Strive to keep your presentation’s tone as a casual conversation with the audience. It should not be a session of the audience staring at the back or side of your head as you read from the screen. And don’t read the text from paper, unless you think that your English makes this absolutely necessary.
Organisation & order
Your presentation creates a path for the audience to follow - be sure your introduction lays out where you will be taking the audience throughout your talk. In your introduction, provide a focus (statement of your main idea), a reason to listen (significance of the main idea) and an orientation (structure of the presentation).
Like a newspaper article a good presentation and paper starts with providing the focus, the statement of the idea, the main conclusion. This helps the audience to follow you.
Summarise after you finish each point, to wrap up what you’ve said and connect it to the next point.
Audiences tend to be very attentive at a presentation’s beginning, less attentive during the middle section, and more attentive as it ends. Use your conclusion to re-emphasis the most important elements of your presentation.
You can try to recapture the
You’ve worked hard to put together the research you want to share with your colleagues -make sure that effort pays off by creating a presentation that your audience will remember and appreciate.
Preparation Points
On average, you should budget one hour of writing and practice for each minute you speak. A 15-minute presentation should be backed up by 15 hours of preparation and practice.
A rule of thumb is also that a good slide or sheet takes on average 2 to 3 minutes to present. So for a 15 minute presentation you have to condense your contribution to 5 to 8 sheets.
Rehearse your presentation several times before you leave for the meeting. Prepare and rehearse enough that you don’t rely heavily on your visual aids to keep you on track.
Strive to keep your presentation’s tone as a casual conversation with the audience. It should not be a session of the audience staring at the back or side of your head as you read from the screen. And don’t read the text from paper, unless you think that your English makes this absolutely necessary.
Organisation & order
Your presentation creates a path for the audience to follow - be sure your introduction lays out where you will be taking the audience throughout your talk. In your introduction, provide a focus (statement of your main idea), a reason to listen (significance of the main idea) and an orientation (structure of the presentation).
Like a newspaper article a good presentation and paper starts with providing the focus, the statement of the idea, the main conclusion. This helps the audience to follow you.
Summarise after you finish each point, to wrap up what you’ve said and connect it to the next point.
Audiences tend to be very attentive at a presentation’s beginning, less attentive during the middle section, and more attentive as it ends. Use your conclusion to re-emphasis the most important elements of your presentation.
You can try to recapture the