Do's & Dont's of making presentation
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This document provides guidelines for effective presentations, emphasizing simplicity in slides and the importance of engaging with the audience. Key recommendations include using contrasting colors, maintaining large readable fonts, and limiting the number of slides to focus on a few key points. The document also advises against reading slides verbatim, using distracting animations, and encourages audience interaction and rehearsal.
Do's & Dont's of making presentation
- 2. Presented By M. Atif Rauf Mureed Sultan Fakhar Hayat Sultan Babary Comsats Institute of Information technology Lahore
- 3. Bullets (Do) Let Justify Keep them simple
- 4. Bullets (Don’t) Scatter Over Complicate
- 5. Backgrounds (Don’t) Use confusing or cluttered backgrounds
- 6. Contrast and Color (DO) Use contrasting colors
- 7. Contrast and Color (Don’t) Use of similar color
- 8. Fonts (Do) Use simple and large fonts
- 9. Fonts (Don’t) Use simple and large fonts that are hard to read and small Use all caps
- 10. Less is more Don’t illustrate every point with a slide, only important ones Even in a 45 minutes presentation, you should only be making two or three excellent points that you except the audience to remember Everything else can be anecdotes or examples backing up those points
- 11. Don’t put too few words on a slide Single words per bullet point are normally unhelpful. Slides are an aid memoir for you as a speaker but they should also be useful as a notes for audience
- 12. You are the focus, not your slides You are on a stage, you are a performer. The slides have just secondary importance. What makes a performance interesting? Humor, movement, audience interaction Come out from behind the lectern and use body language Ask questions from audience and challenge their answers
- 13. Use graphics and images to demonstrate a point
- 14. Avoid complex graphs and process models
- 15. Don’t use animations (on text) Animations (on text) can be very annoying and distracting. Avoid them at all costs
- 17. Never read slides Never read slides word-for-word
- 18. Look at the audience Have the slides on your laptop screen as well as on the projector screen, and do not look at the projector image unless you are pointing to it.
- 19. Make eye contact with audience
- 20. Talk only about what is on a slide Do not temped to describe more key points Make ONE point per slide
- 21. Standing Keep your hands out of your pockets Don’t stand rigidly behind the lectern Walk around the stage, using gesture to indicate what you mean
- 22. Know your slides! Do not appear surprised when the next slide comes up
- 24. Watch the time very carefully Please stay within your time limits at all costs
- 25. Slide number Please aim for One slide 2-3 minutes 10 slides for 20 minute presentation + questions
- 26. Don’t kill the punch line Whatever you do, don’t show the text of your major conclusion BEFORE you speak it.
- 27. Summaries Always try to SUMMARISE the key points you have made at the end of presentation
- 28. Ask for questions Take 2 or 3 question at the end of your presentation Take a poll asking for hands up
- 29. End