How to make a good presentation
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The document offers guidance on creating an effective presentation, emphasizing the importance of engaging the audience and presenting information clearly. Key points include the use of minimal text and visuals, maintaining enthusiasm, and practicing to enhance performance. It outlines a structured approach involving an overview, body content, conclusion, and engagement with the audience through questions.
How to make a good presentation
- 1. How to make a good presentation Majbrit L Karlsen
- 2. Overview What should a presentation do? General advice Front Page Overview Body text Conclusion Sources Questions Conclusion Your questions
- 3. What should a presentation do? We want to: Inform or convince Get through to our audience, sometimes dazzle them Keep up our own enthusiasm Make the audience remember what we have presented in a positive and constructive way We do not want: To bore our audience to tears; An audience that starts checking their text messages, chatting amongst themselves or even nodding off as we speak.
- 4. Little text, few slides, plenty of images and illustrations Illustrations keep your audience captive; lots of text and figures are boring and hard to remember. Entertain your audience Choose the right illustrations; topical; funny or provocative, but don’t cross the line. Beware tables and diagrams Keep them simple, and only include one or two per presentation. Think of ways to present them by degrees to keep your audience listening actively. Keep focus on your own performance Ideally, you should be able to give the presentation without slides.
- 5. Use open body language Your audience should focus on what you are saying, not on you. If you send many ‘I am insecure’ signals, they will do the opposite of what you want; focus on you and wonder if you are honest and know what you are talking about Plan how to move from one slide to the next! And vary transistions. Don’t use endless ‘And’s and ‘Next’s Learn your presentation by heart And keep eye contact with your audience - Don’t read aloud Use the rule of three; Say what you want to say, say it, and say what you have said. more
- 6. KISS principle Keep It Simple, Sweetheart Practice makes perfect Practice your presentation in front of friends/family, and ask for honest opinions. Learn from your experience and feedback Make notes of what works/does not work, and use them at your next presentation. Last
- 7. First impressions last! Use an eyecatching illustration Greet your audience, introduce yourself and your subject in that order.
- 8. Overview - what am I going to say? Make a slide with a table of contents Say what you want to say, Say it, Say what you have said.
- 9. Body text Say it Slides in logical order, like chapters in a textbook! If you are presenting a report, use the report structure! Plan how to move from one slide to the next!
- 10. Conclusion Say what you have said! - Sum up and conclude! Mark that this is the end of your presentation, and introduce final formalities – (sources) question time.
- 11. School use – In real life you may skip this part if irrelevant. Address your sources and critique them. How are they relevant? Are they reliable? Why/why not, and if not, why have you used them anyway?
- 12. Questions Invite questions from your audience, and answer them. Preparation: Look at your presentation and try to anticipate questions, or practice to friends and remember what they asked.
- 13. Conclusion If you follow: the structure from the overview with at least one slide per section My brilliant advice in these slides You have a fighting chance of performing well! Best of luck with that. Front Page Overview Body text Conclusion Sources Questions
- 14. Your questions