Power Point Design Mechanics

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Classic Mistakes

One of the worst things most do when making a presentation using PowerPoint is to stick every word of what they want to say actually on the PowerPoint. Meaning that you actually have nothing additional to say because its all up on the slide for you. Similar to reading off the PowerPoint, this additional phase of word dumping will quickly send audiences to sleep. In addition your audience will be able to read faster than you can talk so this will mean that they would have finished reading the slide before you finished verbalizing it, and will most likely be sitting there waiting for you to finish off reading, by which time they may have gone to sleep. This invariably makes it easier not to rehearse or remember a presentation but will turn people off straight away. This is a lazy approach to doing presentations and speeches and it will show that you haven’t really prepared and basically winging most of the points and using to jog your memory. So don’t do it is the simple rule. One of the worst things most do when making a presentation using PowerPoint is to stick every word of what they want to say actually on the PowerPoint. Meaning that you actually have nothing additional to say because its all up on the slide for you. Similar to reading off the PowerPoint, this additional phase of word dumping will quickly send audiences to sleep. In addition your audience will be able to read faster than you can talk so this will mean that they would have finished reading the slide before you finished verbalizing it, and will most likely be sitting there waiting for you to finish off reading, by which time they may have gone to sleep. This invariably makes it easier not to rehearse or remember a presentation but will turn people off straight away. This is a lazy approach to doing presentations and speeches and it will show that you haven’t really prepared and basically winging most of the points and using to jog your memory. So don’t do it is the simple rule. Classic Mistakes

Try to avoid:

Excessive Bullet

Points

in

your presentations

and

not

forgetting

those

annoying

sound

effects

and

fly-in

entrance effects

Classic Mistakes

Poor Colour schemes and/ or use of multiple colours in a single slide for your text that make it almost unreadable for your participants. Cheesy Spinning Word Art! Classic Mistakes

Classic Mistakes

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1. Delivery You need salesmanship and marketing skills

2. Content

Text Highlights

News headlines

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Up to 250,000 photos

Full-screen editing

Your basic Quote on a slide!

Mark James Normand Managing Director Mark Sales Manager James Marketing Manager Normand Product Manager Mark Jr. Sales Executive James Jr Marketing Executive Jimmy Marketing Executive Marcus Admin Assistant Jones Admin Assistant Norman Clerical Your basic Org Chart!

Fitting it all on the slide Arena Ang Director Mark Normand Chairman Lisa M CEO Deepa CFO Gareth Poh Director Bruce Poh Director Azman Manager Salmon Manager Eric Executive

Fitting it all on the slide

Use motion paths

Design

Your typical Slide layout!

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