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How Not To Suck at Powerpoint
This document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations. It begins with an introduction of the presenter and outlines some general and corporate uses of PowerPoint. It then discusses the importance of having a clear purpose, understanding your audience, and preparing for your presentation. The bulk of the document focuses on five tips: look for quality in fonts, images and design; keep things simple with limited text and clear visuals; use visuals wisely; hold some information back rather than putting everything on slides; and prepare thoroughly instead of just winging it. Examples of good, bad and ugly PowerPoint slides are also briefly presented.
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How Not To Suck at Powerpoint
- 1. How NOT To Suckat Powerpoint BAI + O&B Learning Session February 12, 2014
- 2. Warning: This talk isfor people who DON’T want to suck at Powerpoint
- 3. If you DOwant to suck at Powerpoint, go ahead and doze off
- 4. Growth & AcquisitionManager, Xamun Inc. MBA Major in Marketing, Asian Institute of Management Class of 2011 A former choirboy who once lost 80 lbs. Burns Puzon
- 5. 500++ powerpoint presentations createdin the past decade Seen ~3x that figure Performed/hosted in countless concerts/events Aboitiz loved me! The Stats
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- 7. Powerpoint is probably thebest invention ever made – after the wheel (of course)
- 8. General Uses • Presentations • Tutorials • Animations/Videos • Posters • Vision Boards • Flyers • Family Trees (?) • Convincing your parents to buy a dog
- 9. Corporate Uses • Clientpitches • Client updates • Management meetings • Investor meetings • Employee orientations • Learning/training sessions like this • Convincing your boss to buy a dog
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- 11. Your Purpose Message Affiliation/Organization Current Skillset The Bases Their Time TargetReaction Knowledge of Topic Media Device
- 12. Why care? You wouldn’twant to see your audience look like one of these:
- 13. Here are 5basic tips so you won’t suck at your next Powerpoint presentation>>> Don’t Fret!
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- 15. INVEST TIME to study basicdesign MONEY to buy images & fonts ENERGY to grab great ideas
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- 17. Arial Comic Sans MS CourierNew Lucida Console Microsoft Sans Serif Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana are $#*! fonts
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- 20. Use white spaceevery once in a while.
- 21. Text Box Image/Graph Takenote of alignments and sizes. Make sure it looks tidy.
- 22. Use two fontsizes or two font colors to highlight important bits of info in a piece of text instead of bold, italics, or underline Whatever you do, don’t use them all in combination! (like what I just did!)
- 23. Create a collectionof images that go together nicely
- 24. Choose a colorscheme and stick with it, to have a cohesive look.
- 25. colourlovers.com is, uhm, lovely pickcolors much faster with the Eyedropper Some additional color tips:
- 26. Use different sections,to help your audience break down the info better.
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- 29. flickr.com is agood source For icons, there’s icondfinder.com Image sources:
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- 32. Avoid fancy animations and transitions (unlessyou’re presenting to a bunch of kids)
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- 34. Rule of thumb Ifyou’re going to put everything in the slides: 1) Open your presentation 2) Press Ctrl + P 3) Select how many copies based on audience size 4) Pick up the printouts 5) Distribute to audience 6) Sit in the corner
- 35. Limit to 1 POINT perslide!!!
- 36. Always edit your slidesand cut the irrelevant ones
- 37. Too much Toosmall A quick note on data
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- 39. Most presentations suck because of littleor no preparation
- 40. BasicSteps 1. Think ofyou and your audience 2. Pick theme, font, and color palette 3. Write an outline of your points 4. Make the slides 5. Edit slides 6. REHEARSE
- 41. 86% Of execs claimthat clear communication directly impacts their career and income* 25% Spend over 2 hours for important presentations* *www.distinction-services.com
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- 43. Holdsomeinfo kEEpit simple Look forquality Use visuals wisely PREP FOR it recap
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- 45. Some Examples The Good TheBad &the ugly
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- 49. This presentation was inspiredby “You Suck at Powerpoint” by Jesse Desjardins http://www.slideshare.net/ jessedee/you-suck-at-powerpoint