If you need to present to your colleagues, your leaders, to an audience at a conference or on a TEDx stage, getting the slides right has to to be close to the top of the list. The number of times I have seen countless competent presenters try and work with a deck that is too cluttered, too small of font, lacking in impact or simply weak. If you then add in those people that are uncomfortable presenting in the first place the list gets longer and the deck is only making them worse.
No matter who or where you are presenting, and by presenting I am talking about using a slide deck, then you need to make sure you and the slides work together.
They should not be the whole story otherwise who needs you, and they should also not be lacking in impact and they need to work with you to hit your goal, your outcome of the presentation, whatever that is, to persuade, to influence, to inform, to educate or to entertain.
There are some simple things anyone can do to improve their presentation, starting with the deck. There are some obvious tricks most people miss, somethings many do without question and you wonder why, especially when it does not help the presentation.
I have created and given hundreds of presentations at all types of events and settings including business, sales, personal development, executive and mastermind groups. I have also had to sit through more decks than I’d like to think about where the presentation was awful, dull, lacking in impact, missing its point of informing or persuading.
I have always strived to create a presentation with punch, and that can sometimes take me off the way the organization usually does thing. But you don’t make an impact by doing the same as everyone else.
If you would like to lift your presenting skills to another level then I can help you do that. Why not download the tips booklet and take a look at that and if you would like to do more then get in touch and let’s talk.