How To Create a Good Presentation

Everyone makes PowerPoint presentations these days. Want to make yours stand out? Here's how.

1. Choose images - big, clear, relevant. Don't put an image in as filler. Use a blank slide with one word on it rather than using an irrelevant or distracting picture.

2. Write speaker's notes as you go along and amend them every time you practice the presentation or if something new occurs to you.

3. When you think you have it down, time yourself.

4. Say "So What?" to yourself a whole lot when you are practicing. If you can't answer the "So What?" drop the slide or the word or the point

5. During the end of the presentation, if you have allotted time left, include moving pictures (clips) and social cuttings as a closure, or you may include your proposal of the final required result as a curtain downer, and then ask for opinions in a positive way.

6. Slides are a helper in your presentation not the core.you will need to prepare the topic before hand and explain the questions that viewers ask.

7. For this you may either adopt the strategy of letting people ask their doubts/likes with each slide or tell them before hand that you will answer all the questions once you have made your point.

8. Prepare the content with the audience in mind as well as yourself.A corporate PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) on financial review will look a lot different than one on a scientific project or a nature oriented one.also you yourself must relate with the topic to do justice to it.

9. Avoid asking, "Do you have doubts?" or "What do you think about it?" These may trigger the negative associations in the audience. Ask only if you are proficient in the subject and know thoroughly with conviction about what you have just presented. If you are new, try asking, "How would you like to implement it with additions?" or "What more would you like to see added into it?" You can also try, "What difference can it make to help in our growth and why should we promote it?"

10. If you are experienced and know already that you have done a good job with the PPT with full conviction, DO NOT ASK and DO NOT MAKE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS once it's over. Let your audience decide and wait for it. It's worth the effort to let them come out clapping or with their own comments without your nudging.

11. During the very beginning of the PPT, you may give a brief outline or a flow chart about the basic topics you wish to cover. This will help in two ways:

12. First: The audience will be ready to capture the flow of PPT.

13. Second: An uninterested audience will either leave or will come to know about them as you deliver your content. This will help you in cutting short answers to those whom you may understand are not paying attention but just asking questions for the sake of it and move to those with interest.

14. If your finances permit,give them a text copy of the major points before you begin. This is not only a good practice but also helps them to review slides they may have missed.