Sylvie Verleye provides essential tips for impactful presentations, emphasizing the importance of connecting with the audience and maintaining control over the message rather than relying on slides. She advises against cluttered slides packed with text and encourages using large, clear visuals instead. Verleye also suggests creating presentation notes afterward and utilizing techniques like black screens to enhance engagement.

1. FREE
PRESENTATION
TIPS
By presentation coach and speaker Sylvie Verleye

2. You are about to discover my golden presentation
rules to make your next presentation an unforgettable
experience for you and your audience…

3. Connect with your audience

4. TALK WITH THEM… NOT TO THEM
The distance between you and the audience is of utmost importance

5. To really connect with the audience you need
to stand close to them because it feels
like you bond with them.

6. YOU have the lead, not the slides
YOU are in controle, not the slideshow

7. So MEMORIZE the order of your slides!

8. OBSERVE
the MASTER
He introduces the slide and clicks
instead of clicking and then commenting the slide.

9. BIG
You have a big screen, make it

10. A picture works best when it covers most of the slide

11. Put a message ON the picture in a minimum font 20

12.  Most slides that I see are ‘decorated’ slides
 With the ever so (not) important bullet points
 Where text is the basis of the slide
 And the picture works as nice extra
 Sometimes it is not even a nice picture but clipart
 Please don’t do that
 When you have slides like these your audience is reading
 And chances are that your font will become smaller
 And smaller
 And smaller
 As you cannot get everything on the slide
 Please don’t do that

13. The bigger the audience, the bigger the font

14. Never ever send your slides, only show them during a presentation

15. Slide during presentation Send the notes afterwards

16. Make this document when the slides are ready.
Press ‘file’ ‘save and send’ ‘create handouts in
word’ choose ‘notes below slides’ and your
PowerPoint will be transferred to a word
document looking like this. All you have to do is
type your text which is meant for the audience.

17. Come to think of it….do you really need
slides

18. ‘
‘ We do not get our great ideas from the laptop
- JOHN CLEESE

19. Before you start designing slides

20. B
Check this out…press B (or Z) twice on your keyboard when you
are in a slideshow and see what happens. You may just decide to
use that black screen throughout your presentation…

21. Don’t freak out, just step out of your comfort zone and give it a try!

22. This slideshare was made by presentation expert Sylvie
Verleye of presentation academy Simply Talking!
Surf to www.simplytalking.be for more…