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