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A “How to” Guide for a Better Presentation

A “How to” Guide for a Better Presentation. Presentation Guidelines By: Mr. Pace. 12 Easy Steps to Follow. Step 1-Know Your Audience. Define your Audience Develop the Directions. Know your audience and think about what interests they have in the topic you’re presenting.

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A “How to” Guide for a Better Presentation

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  1. A “How to” Guide for a Better Presentation Presentation Guidelines By: Mr. Pace 12 Easy Steps to Follow

  2. Step 1-Know Your Audience • Define your Audience • Develop the Directions Know your audience and think about what interests they have in the topic you’re presenting

  3. Step 2- ”Content is King” • Worry about your design last • Make sure your message has CLARITY

  4. Step 3- Get a Color Wheel • Understanding what colors look good together • Primary Colors • Red, Yellow, and Blue • Secondary Colors • Green, Orange, and Purple • Aggressive / Warm Colors • Red, Orange, and Yellow • Receding / Cool Colors • Blue, Green, and Purple

  5. Step 4- Use Your Color Wheel • Remind yourself of good color management • Notice what colors compliment each other • Know what colors detract from each other

  6. Step 5- “Keep it simple stupid” - KISS • Keep your slide display easy to read and understand • Don’t crowd the screen with clip-art • Keep the transitions and animations simple and discreet

  7. Step 6- Fonts are like Donuts • Never eat/use more than three • Keep fonts consistent • Same font for all titles • Second font for your text • Never use non-standard fonts

  8. Step 7- Consistency • Don’t use animation or sound effects just because you can • Practice good ‘effect management’ • When in doubt don’t do it

  9. Step 8- Think before using the header / footer Things which can be added: • Date • Number of slides • A blank box for your name, department, or the title of your favorite Elvis Presley song • Think about the information and the audience viewing it

  10. Step 9- Stop. Look. Dial-up. • The more complex the background and clip-art, the bigger the PowerPoint file • Keep the backgrounds solid colors or simple template images, therefore the PowerPoint files will stay lean in size

  11. Step 10- Murphy’s Law • Always use your own gear • light ware, laptop, projector • Always have a backup • Have a technology and a non-technology oriented backup • Burn a CD • Have a copy of a zip disk • Always take it to a similar presentation venue "Be Prepared" "Be Prepared"

  12. Step 11- Combating Murphy’s Law • First, do a dry run • Second, provide a downloadable version of your presentation • Finally, provide a low-band width version of your presentation • And Again- "Be Prepared"

  13. Step 12- Repeat Once you have run through each of these steps, don’t just follow the steps for one presentation or an occasional speech, make it a part of the preparation process…

  14. Conclusion Developing PowerPoint presentations goes back to the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you Develop Presentations that you would find inviting and easy to understand Adopted from Matthew A. Christian

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