The document provides 8 tips for creating a perfect presentation. The tips include understanding the material and audience, communicating clearly with short sentences and limited words per slide. It suggests keeping the audience's attention with animations, transitions between slides, and visually appealing slides with readable fonts. Visual aids should be relevant and help audience remember information. Complex concepts can be explained with graphics like charts, and information can be made interactive and available for future reference through links and distributions.

1. Tips for the perfect
presentation!

2. Tip #1 - Communication
 Understand material and purpose
 Communicate clearly and concisely
 Short sentences
 Limit words on each slide
 Use the 3x3 writing process
 Prewrite, write and revise

3. Tip #2 - Audience
 Know your audience
 Understand knowledge level of the audience
 Will there be different knowledge levels
 Encourage feedback and interaction
 Use PowerPoint add-ins to enhance
participation

4. Tip #3 – Audience Attention
 Strive to keep the audiences attention
 Keep presentation lively and active
 Use animations to keep the audience attention
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Text and images pop in to highlight discussion points
Build on simple concepts to create more detail
 Use slide transition to move from one slide to
the next

5. Tip #4 - Styles
 Visually appealing slides
 Colors that do not overwhelm the audience
 Text needs to stand out and be readable
 No more than two different fonts
 Font size should be between 24 and 36
 Titles are larger than text
 Templates keep presentations consistent

6. Tip #5 – Visual Aids
 Use visual aids to enhance presentation
 Visual aids need to be relevant to the
information being presented
 Visual aids can assist the audience in
remembering information
 Most common visual aids are:
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Maps
Photographs
Other images

7. Tip #6 – Complex Concepts
 Use graphics to increase understanding of
complex concepts
 Organizational charts
 Flow charts
 Pie and bar charts
 Full descriptions should be included in
hand-outs.

8. Tip #7 – Information availability
 Create an interactive presentation
 Embed links
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Websites
Spreadsheets and charts that will increase audience
understanding
Informational videos
 Benefits
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Increased information retention
Information available at a later point in time

9. Tip #8 – Distribution
 Distribute charts via an internet link
 Any changes are made real time
 Immediate access to updated information
 Link retained for future reference
 Increased ways to conduct presentation
 Web based presentation
 Face-to-face presentation
 Telephone presentation

10. Questions or
Comments?