rules of best presentation by Fakhar Hayat sargana (Chemical Engineering Department), Comsats institute of information technology lahore

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

16. Rehearse, Rehearse, Rehearse

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

23. Control your emotions

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