15 MORE Tips to Presentation Excellence!

More tips for you to achieve pre­sen­ta­tion excel­lence!  Refer to our pre­vi­ous post, 15 Tips to Pre­sen­ta­tion Excel­lence if you’ve missed out our pre­vi­ous tips.  We want to be more pre­cise with our sched­ule and action items.  We want to address the emo­tional and be sen­si­tive to your audi­ences’ need.  We want to be con­sis­tent in our mes­sage and deliv­ery, and sum­ma­rize our story from time to time to get buy in and pos­i­tive response from them.

1. One point per slide – No more than that!  It gives clear and con­cise of what you intend to inform your audi­ence.  Addi­tional unre­lated infor­ma­tion will only con­fuse your audience.
2. Do not clut­ter your slide con­tent – Do not dump every­thing on the small slide.  Also avoid putting charts and graphs into the slides.  The amount of con­tent should be kept at min­i­mal but deliv­ers impact.
3. Add good quotes – Remem­ber you are telling a story.  Good quotes help to rein­force stories.
4. Be sen­si­tive to gen­der dif­fer­ences – Males and females have dif­fer­ent under­stand­ing of sub­jects and some jokes or issues can be offensive.
5. Be sen­si­tive to racial dif­fer­ences – Dif­fer­ent races have dif­fer­ent cul­tures.  Under­stand them and be sen­si­tive to it.  DO NOT make fun of other race at the minimum!
6. Always pre­pare sur­prises – Just imag­ine the audi­ence hear­ing the same thing over and over again.  Pretty excit­ing right?
7. Sum­ma­rize your story from time to time – Always sum­ma­rize your story to rein­force what you have ini­tially proposed.
8. Include action items – If you are propos­ing actions, be deci­sive and inform your audi­ences that what will be imme­di­ately started and accom­plished after this meeting.
9. Admit if you do not know some­thing – Yes be frank! Hon­esty works bet­ter than you try­ing to avoid directly answer­ing your audi­ence doubts.
10. Remem­ber you want to win their heart and mind! – Exert as much pos­i­tive influ­ence on your audi­ence to your propo­si­tion as possible.
11. Be emo­tional even data is imper­a­tive! – Again, be sen­si­tive to your audi­ence.  Although you have tons of data and facts for your pre­sen­ta­tion, but you can­not ignore the feel­ings and emo­tions of your audiences.
12. Get sup­port from the “cus­tomer” – Con­sider get­ting sup­port from the audi­ence.  The audi­ence will feel closer to you if they have some­one they have acquain­tance with.  The closer the better!
13. Be pre­cise on your sched­ule – All the sched­ule and deliv­er­ables stated must be clear and realistic!!
14. Com­pro­mise appro­pri­ately – Do not get into any argu­ment with any­one in the pre­sen­ta­tion.  It’s more impor­tant to com­plete your pre­sen­ta­tion then a ver­bal brawling.
15. Keep up with recent events – This will give you more cred­i­bil­ity on your expe­ri­ence in the field and makes your pre­sen­ta­tion more credible.

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