Do's & Dont's of making presentation

The Do’s & Don’ts of making

Presentation

Presented By

M. Atif Rauf

Mureed Sultan

Fakhar Hayat

Sultan Babary

Comsats Institute of Information technology Lahore

Let Justify

Keep them simple

Bullets (Do)

Bullets (Don’t)

Scatter

Over Complicate

Backgrounds (Don’t)

Use confusing or cluttered backgrounds

Contrast and Color (DO)

Use contrasting colors

Contrast and Color (Don’t)

Use of similar color

Fonts (Do)

Use simple and large fonts

Fonts (Don’t)

Use simple and large fonts that are hard to read and small

Use all caps

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

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

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

Use graphics and images to demonstrate a point

Avoid complex graphs and process models

Don’t use animations (on text)

Animations (on text) can be very annoying and distracting. Avoid them at all costs

Rehearse, Rehearse, Rehearse

Never read slides

Never read slides word-for-word

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.

Make eye contact with audience

Talk only about what is on a slide

Do not temped to describe more key points

Make ONE point per slide

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

Know your slides!

Do not appear surprised when the next slide comes up

Control your emotions

Watch the time very carefully

Please stay within your time limits at all costs

Slide number

Please aim for One slide 2-3 minutes

10 slides for 20 minute presentation + questions

Don’t kill the punch line

Whatever you do, don’t show the text of your major conclusion BEFORE you speak it.

Summaries

Always try to SUMMARISE the key points you have made at the end of presentation

Ask for questions

Take 2 or 3 question at the end of your presentation

Take a poll asking for hands up

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