Free presentation tips by presentation expert Sylvie Verleye
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Sylvie Verleye provides essential tips for impactful presentations, emphasizing the importance of connecting with the audience and maintaining control over the message rather than relying on slides. She advises against cluttered slides packed with text and encourages using large, clear visuals instead. Verleye also suggests creating presentation notes afterward and utilizing techniques like black screens to enhance engagement.
Free presentation tips by presentation expert Sylvie Verleye
- 1. FREE PRESENTATION TIPS By presentation coach and speaker Sylvie Verleye
- 2. You are about to discover my golden presentation rules to make your next presentation an unforgettable experience for you and your audience…
- 3. Connect with your audience
- 4. TALK WITH THEM… NOT TO THEM The distance between you and the audience is of utmost importance
- 5. To really connect with the audience you need to stand close to them because it feels like you bond with them.
- 6. YOU have the lead, not the slides YOU are in controle, not the slideshow
- 7. So MEMORIZE the order of your slides!
- 8. OBSERVE the MASTER He introduces the slide and clicks instead of clicking and then commenting the slide.
- 9. BIG You have a big screen, make it
- 10. A picture works best when it covers most of the slide
- 11. Put a message ON the picture in a minimum font 20
- 12. Most slides that I see are ‘decorated’ slides With the ever so (not) important bullet points Where text is the basis of the slide And the picture works as nice extra Sometimes it is not even a nice picture but clipart Please don’t do that When you have slides like these your audience is reading And chances are that your font will become smaller And smaller And smaller As you cannot get everything on the slide Please don’t do that
- 13. The bigger the audience, the bigger the font
- 14. Never ever send your slides, only show them during a presentation
- 15. Slide during presentation Send the notes afterwards
- 16. Make this document when the slides are ready. Press ‘file’ ‘save and send’ ‘create handouts in word’ choose ‘notes below slides’ and your PowerPoint will be transferred to a word document looking like this. All you have to do is type your text which is meant for the audience.
- 17. Come to think of it….do you really need slides
- 18. ‘ ‘ We do not get our great ideas from the laptop - JOHN CLEESE
- 19. Before you start designing slides
- 20. B Check this out…press B (or Z) twice on your keyboard when you are in a slideshow and see what happens. You may just decide to use that black screen throughout your presentation…
- 21. Don’t freak out, just step out of your comfort zone and give it a try!
- 22. This slideshare was made by presentation expert Sylvie Verleye of presentation academy Simply Talking! Surf to www.simplytalking.be for more…