Map your slides - Video Tutorials & Practice Problems

How many slides did you have for a 20 minute presentation? How about a 45 minute presentation? No matter what length of presentation you're wondering about my answer is the same. You need zero slides for an effective presentation, especially in the business world. We default to PowerPoint or other presentation slides software far too quickly to our own detriment, to the point that. Unhelpful unnecessary slides in this lesson, I'll help you ensure your slides are an excellent visual enhancement, not a terrible distraction. Before you create one single slide for your presentation. I want you to ask yourself this question, what would best help this audience understand and be served by this content? Would additional visuals create stronger clarity and impact? If the answer is yes, then here's how to map out the slides to. Start by going through your fully fleshed out outline of content, either circle by hand or use the comment feature in your word processing software to make notes where slides would be helpful. For example, let's say you're sharing sales growth of the product you manage. This is a great place to have a bar chart or line graph to help the audience. Not only hear. But see the upward slope of growth, make a note of that in your presentation content so that you can create a slide for it. Once you go through all of the content in this way, you'll have a map for the slides you need to create. Next, if you're creating slides to accompany your presentation, here are some that are really helpful to have in the mix. First, you're going to want an opening slide with your name, possibly your title and your company. If that's relevant and the title of your presentation, then it's often really helpful to have an agenda slide. This is a gift to your audience, letting them know where you're going and what to expect along the way. Keep this. You can also include wayfinding slides. These are title slides, that show when you're moving to the next agenda item in your presentation, they act like a guiding hand to the audience members saying here, come with me, we're headed this way. Finally. You want to have a closing slide, which depending on the context might have a thank you, or it might have your name and contact information, or it could include a reminder of your call to action. So now head on over to your presentation content and start marking it up with ideas for. If they make sense for your presentation and remember the simpler, the better simpler slides, keep your audience's attention on the most important thing, the impact you intend to make for them with this excellent presentation.