This document provides tips for creating powerful presentations. It recommends determining your audience and main message, supporting your main idea with details, keeping the presentation simple, knowing your audience, previewing and reviewing slides, using design elements consistently and wisely, proofreading, and rehearsing the presentation without reading slides verbatim. The goal is to communicate your information, ideas, or strategies clearly and concisely.

1. Powerful
Presentations

2. Purpose
 Communicates
Information
Ideas
Strategies

3. Remember Your Goal
 Determine Audience
 Business audience – formal
 Convey Main Message
 Review Slides

4. Types of Presentation Programs
 Microsoft PowerPoint
 WordPerfect Presentations
 Lotus Freelance Graphics

5. Support Your Main Idea
 Topic Sentence
 Supporting Details
 Keep it Simple

6. Know Your Audience
 Fewer words on slide
 Don’t Oversimplify
 Rehearse
 Clarify

7. Preview and Review
 Preview Slide
First
Introduces the topic
 Review Slide
Last
Restates the main idea

8. Keep it Simple
 Highlight Key Facts
 Keep text lively but to the point

9. Design Elements
 Consistent
 Avoid Distracting Elements
 Avoid Confusion

10. Be Smart With Art
 Use clip art, tables, charts, icons, and animations
wisely.
 Illustrations should convey message
 6 x 7 rule –
 no more than 6 lines per slide
 no more than 7 words per line.

11. Proofread
 Spell Check
 Rehearse Timings

12. Review
 Clear
Be sure your audience gets your message.
 Concise
Keep it Simple
 Rehearse, Rehearse, Rehearse
 Don’t read your slides to the audience.
 They can read!