How to Create Excellent Visual Aids for Your Presentation

Make your presentation more engaging, more compelling and more memorable with good visual aids. And, let’s face it, that means slides.
Whether you favor PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Prezzi, or another tool, how can you create excellent visual aids to support your presentation?
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PRESENTATION SKILLS
This video is part of course module 2.2.1
Program 2: Manager as Communicator
Course 2: Presentation Skills
Section 1: Preparation
Other videos in this section include:
Define Your Presentation: Defusing the B.O.M.B. https://youtu.be/-MHhwQxE3yg
How to Craft a Compelling, Persuasive, and Powerful Presentation https://youtu.be/AKtI5QgLFX0
How to Craft a Compelling Presentation Structure https://youtu.be/cwdhUk2IZPQ
Five Simple Structures for a Compelling Presentation https://youtu.be/fqTA6Kybw0E
Opening Your Presentation: How to Hook your Audience https://youtu.be/oIIsJZWd1QU
Closing: How to Finish Your Presentation with Real Impact https://youtu.be/7UCMi5JYSuM
How to Make the Key Points of Your Presentation Memorable https://youtu.be/fHDLO6f2Syc
How to Create Excellent Visual Aids for Your Presentation https://youtu.be/jP2Q5Kdq_Ww
Preparation is Key: How to Review and Rehearse Your Presentation https://youtu.be/_9bOgcBNaeU
LESSON NOTES
Remember the purpose of your visual aids…
They are an aid for your audience
- Less is more
- Distinguish between what belongs on a screen and what you should save for handouts or reference material
- Use graphs ‘honestly’ to give a fair representation of the data
- Put yourself in the place of your audience how will they see your slides or other visual aids?
- Respect your organization’s house style and be aware of the need to protect their brand
- Big impact comes from simplicity of design
- Avoid anything flashy
- Your job is to persuade your audience you know what you are talking about: not that you can use all the neat tricks that PowerPoint offers
- Break any of these rules only if you are convinced that to do so will really strengthen your message
Checking
Test images and watermarks with a projector
Check for errors. Then, check again. Then ask a colleague to check for you!
RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
Next time you create visual aids or slides for your presentation:
1. Check that they are optimized for your audience, not for you (1 MC CPD Points)
2. Does the content work and is it as simple as possible? (2 MC CPD Points)
3. Does the design and format properly enhance your slides? (2 MC CPD Points)
4. Have you checked them. thoroughly?
.Really? (2 MC CPD Points)
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RECOMMENDED READING
My top recommendation is my own book:
How to Speak so people Listen - https://geni.us/HSPL
Other Recommendations:
The Presentation Book - https://geni.us/6sqr
Presentation Zen - https://geni.us/mrvmeh
The Pyramid Principle - https://geni.us/9cbjvBs
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - https://geni.us/KJpG
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BUT…
I have also created a Presenter’s Kit to accompany this course:
https://kit.co/MikeClayton/presenter-s-kit (the links are affiliated)
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CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 - Good visual aids make your presentation more…
00:33 - The purpose of your visual aids
00:58 - What visual aids are NOT for…
01:31 - Two elements to every visual aid
01:41 - Less is more
01:55 - Content
02:25 - Format
04:57 - Become more skillful
05:14 - Checking
05:55 - Conclusion
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