4 PowerPoint Do's & Don'ts | Public Speaking Video Lecture | Public Speaking: Learn and Boost your Confidence (English) - Communication

so how do you give a great PowerPoint
presentation now PowerPoint is a great
tool it's great for audiences it's great
for speakers except for when it's abused
and misused and you know the result the
result is you fall asleep everyone falls
asleep PowerPoint is a very misused tool
but it doesn't mean PowerPoint is bad
PowerPoint can be extraordinarily
effective for you if you follow a few
simple rules for starters you need to
narrow the focus of your speech to a
handful of key points what you can't do
is just gather up every single fact
every single number that your department
has worked on for the last year and cram
it all into a bunch of PowerPoint slides
and quickly read it to people if you're
just using as a data dump you're going
to put everybody to sleep the most
effective way to use a PowerPoint slide
is to focus on a few simple rules for
starters one idea per slide
let me say that again literally one idea
per slide so what does that mean that
means if you have a heading and six
bullet points that's six ideas that's
not one idea so the basic concept is one
idea per slide use images rather than
text
now hey I'm a text guy I've written
eight books I like to read books I'm not
anti text but think about it your whole
life when you like to read text do you
really like to read a screen fifty feet
away well someone's talking to you and
turning the pages of course not when you
like to read you hold a book or an iPad
or a computer screen this far away you
want quiet and you want to turn your own
pages so it is simply not effective to
use a PowerPoint as a way of throwing up
a lot of text the best way to use a
PowerPoint is to supplement your
messages with images to drive your
message to the audience so they remember
it remember you're not really giving a
power
presentation I don't give PowerPoint
presentations now I use PowerPoint but
I'm giving a TJ presentation you're
giving a Samantha presentation you have
to make your ideas come alive you have
to give examples with stories then if
you have a visual to make that idea come
a lot to make it more memorable put the
visual up and that can help you
dramatically when you're speaking you
shouldn't have a PowerPoint slide up if
there's a PowerPoint slide up close your
mouth and let people look at it and
finally the biggest tip of all realize
you can have two separate powerpoints
you can have the traditional PowerPoint
with lots and lots of bullet points lots
of text email that to people in advance
give it as a handout but the PowerPoint
you actually project on a big screen in
front of people should be stripped away
of words and should focus on one image
per screen one idea per screen if you do
that you will give a great PowerPoint
presentation