How to Make a Better Presentation

Kate Lee

SPRING13-D-8-ORG536-1

Contemporary Business Writing and Communication

CSU-Global

Instructor: Dr. Bobby Olszewski

07/07/2013

Start with the Text

• Make sure the words you are using are clear and concise and most of all understandable.

• Make sure when you add color it is visually appealing instead of an eye sore.

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Select Your Backgrounds and Fonts

• Select a template that will be most of all appealing to the eye

• Use consistent font styles and sizes, as well as the same background throughout the slides.

• There are many templates that you can download or pay for.

• Use Times New Roman or Arial font. Size should be between 24 and 36.

Choose Images That Support the Information

• Images help keep your audience intrigued.

• Can support your information by giving the audience a visual.

• Make sure, if using images from other sources, that you obtain a copyright of image if applicable.

Use Graphics to Simplify Complex Information.

• Graphs can make complex information look simplified.

• Helps your audience understand the complex information in a Lehman’s term kind of way.

• Can make your presentation visually appealing to the eye

• Keep in mind when adding graphics that they should be easy to understand rather than overloading information to your audience.

Use Special Effects

• When you use special effects it keeps your audience focused on your presentation.

• Make information appear as you discuss it than all at once.

• Choose your animation with care so that it does not overpower the presentation.

Create Hyperlinks to Become Interactive

• Add hyperlinks to your sources that you obtain information on and cite.

• You can hyperlink other slides in your presentation, so you can go back to a previous slide to help solidify a point that you are trying to make.

• A Hyperlink can also connect your presentation to another file or document in a different program

Engage your Audience

• It is always good at the end of a presentation have a Q&A.

• It gives the audience a chance to ask questions that may have arose.

• It encourages the audience to discuss your presentation.

• It can be a beneficial learning experience for the next time you have to create another presentation.

Move Your Presentation to the Internet

• When this is done it can be accessible to other employee’s or people who are seeking information.

• It can better other people’s presentations.

• Web presentations are an emerging technology that makes it so that people do not need to leave their office to go to a presentation.

Important Points

• Be clear and concise. • Chose a background

and fonts that is not painful to the eye.

• Choose images to compliment the text.

• Use bullet points to help divide up your information

• Use special affects to keep audience focused

• Make presentation more interactive.

• Engage your audience.

• Make your presentation accessible to everyone.

Reference

• Guffey, M. E., & Dana, L. (2008). Business Communication: Proces & Product. Mason: Cengage Learning.