PRESENTATION COMING UP? HERE IS YOUR 5-MINUTE PRIMER

During a practice session, print out your slides and lay them out in the order in which you’ve designed them. Now:
Minute 1: Review the color choices of the slides. What is your background color? Blue is best with black text and yellow or white for headings.
Minute 2: Review the font and print pitch. Can you walk across the room and still see what is written? Your audience needs to easily read your slides. They’ll tune you out if they can’t.
Minute 3: Walk around the table. Take in the story. Think carefully: does what you’re saying here really need a slide? Do you really need so much information on the slide? Could it be a bar chart, graph, or other illustration rather than lines of text?
Minute 4: With a tape recorder in hand, press the record button, walk from slide to slide and quickly the intro and exit line. If you can quickly think and say the transition then the slide is in the correct position. If you struggle, rethink the order of slides.
Minute 5: Walk around the table and speak out loud the key take-away message. You only have a minute so you can speak in bullet points. If you can tell yourself the key, take-it-to-the-bank message under this kind of pressure, then you’ve got it nailed.


(Excerpted from Loud and Clear by Karen Berg. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/wm2tod4)