By Geetesh Bajaj
Are you stuck with what you believe is a boring or even an uninteresting presentation? And now that your boss insists that you largely stay with the existing topic, what can you do? It turns out you can do a lot. In fact, you’ll need to work on not one but three distinct areas to make your PowerPoint, Prezi, Google Slides, or Apple Keynote presentations more effective and less boring. Here are the three areas:
We will look at these three areas, one at a time.
To make the content interesting, you first need to be interested in the content! Make sure that you, as a speaker, are in sync with your slides.
Make the content interesting Image: Pixabay
That’s easier said than done because you can only be in sync with your slides if you:
Many presenters try to work more in this direction because they are trying to impress rather than inform! But you need to do both. And if you can only choose one of the two, it’s better to inform than impress!
Having said so, if your content is interesting, then making it visually attractive is like the icing on a cake. The icing enhances and adds value to a cake. But no icing can help you with a cake that’s not baked well.
Make the content attractive Image: Pixabay
So how can you make your presentation attractive? Here are some ideas, but do remember, this is just the beginning:
This is the most important part. To make your content engaging, you must be engaging.
Make the content engaging Image: Pixabay
How can you do that? Here are some guidelines that will help:
Certainly, these guidelines and ideas are not the only options available to you although they will get you started. Always be open to learning more.
Note from Geetesh: This post originated from an answer I provided at Quora to the question, Microsoft PowerPoint: How to make boring PowerPoint presentation effective? I worked more on the answer and extended the scope from boring to all presentations. Also, the ideas mentioned are not limited to PowerPoint alone and apply to all presentation programs.
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