10 points for a good presentation
Once I participated in live session of Hammad Rajoub about tips & tricks of presentations. Today, I found notes which I took during that session and thought it will be good to share with you all. So, the following are 10 points about how to prepare a good presentation (Courtesy to Hammad)
1. Tip #1: Subject & Preparation
- Right subject that you want to do
- Learn and present (presenting is learning)
2. Tip #2: KISS Principle
- Keep It Simple Stupid!
- Effective and be clear: Your slides, messages must be clear and simple e.g: if you having code demo, and thing … must be simple
3. Tip#3: A picture is worth a System.Int64.Max words
- Use pictures
- Get pictures and store for future presentations
4. Know your audience
- Who is your audience? Why are we coming? What is the purpose?
- Registrations can help in this regard
- Be calm, give them chance to respond
- Adjust yourself and adapt (listen, respond, adjust and adapt)
5. Communicate
- Communicate your emotion to audience
- Cool code demos, logical conclusion
6. Presentation Style
- speak, pause, listen,
- give chance audience to communicate with you
- humor: relevant humor can grab the attention of your audience
- Anti: Never use slides to read
7. Less is More
- Keep your content relevant, keep point
- One idea per slide
- Keep check on word count …..
9. Content, Content…
- Before using PowerPoint, start writing content
- Content distribution … two or three pages (word doc) through emails .. blog etc..
10. Do’s and Don’ts
- Dos
- Prepare the code demo before the hand…
- Introduce yourself
- Involve audience … listen them, reach them …
- Don’ts
- Don’t repeat yourself …
- Don’t put too many animation or too many cool features of PowerPoint
- Don’t read from slides
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