Preparing Professional Slides in PowerPoint

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“Successful Presentations must be audience centric, not about you [the presenter]” - Erica Olson (founder of Speak Simple)

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“Successful Presentations are understandable, memorable and emotional - Carmine Gallo

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Why do we need good PowerPoint presentations?

Power point presentations are one of the most used methods for meetings and client presentations. “Just knowing how to use Power Point may not be enough for creating impactful presentations. We may be able to create good slides but not good presentations.”

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A Good presentation should have these 5Cs Clear

Content

Consistent Professional presentation

Concret e

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Concise

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Clear - Easy to follow and understand Message “White Space” Text slides

• Only one message per slide • Slide should have enough “white space” • Avoid unnecessary graphics, text boxes to fill the “white space”. • Font size should not be less than 12 • Highlight important words in bold or different colors

Shapes and Charts

• For numerical data, use appropriate charts instead of texts. • Ensure shapes and charts are properly aligned

Contrasting Colors

• Use contrasting colors for background and texts.

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Consistent formatting across all slides • Use consistent font across the entire document. • Avoid using fancy fonts as it may be hard to read

Font

Slide Design • Use Slide master tool to design the slides. • Changes in the Slide Master ensures consistent formatting in the presentation. Email: Support@skillfinlearning.com

Colors

Consistent formatting

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• Ensure that slide colors are consistent. Use variations if there is a clear/ specific purpose.

Graphics/ images • Don’t mix visual types (photos with clip arts, 2D images with 3D images)


Concise document and messaging • Use limited slides (ideally 20 or less) • Follow MECE Principle (Mutually Exclusive Collectively Exhaustive)

• Use images instead of words, if possible • This can help convey information easily to the audience Email: Support@skillfinlearning.com

• Not more than 6-8 words per sentence • Break long sentences to shorter bullet points

Limited Slides

Short sentences

Graphics/ Images

Crisp message • One Message per slide • Use Smart Arts to summarize findings

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Concrete research and analysis

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Document should be backed • by solid research and analysis • Information should be transparent and credible (Mention data source, research reports etc.) used to arrive at the answer

Avoid Plagiarism Avoid spelling, grammatical errors (use the Spell check feature in PowerPoint)

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Content – Tell a compelling story to audience

Logical Flow

Top Down Approach

• Document should have a logical Flow and a compelling Story. • Follow Top Down Approach (PYRAMID PRINCIPLE) Email: Support@skillfinlearning.com

Start with the ANSWER

Tell a compelling Story

Group your SUPPORTING Statements BACK UP of the supporting statements

Follow the PYRAMID PRINCIPLE APPROACH

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Summary

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Clear - Easy to understand 2 3 4

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Consistent - Formatting Concise - Messaging Concrete - Research and analysis

Content – Compelling Story

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