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5.

Start Strongly

The beginning of your presentation is crucial. You need to grab your audience’s attention

and hold it.

They will give you a few minutes’ grace in which to entertain them, before they start to switch

off if you’re dull. So don’t waste that on explaining who you are. Start by entertaining them.

Try a story (see tip 7 below), or an attention-grabbing (but useful) image on a slide.

6. Remember the 10-20-30 Rule for Slideshows

This is a tip from Guy Kawasaki of Apple. He suggests that slideshows should:

 Contain no more than 10 slides;

 Last no more than 20 minutes; and

 Use a font size of no less than 30 point.

 This last is particularly important as it stops you trying to put too much information on

any one slide. This whole approach avoids the dreaded ‘Death by PowerPoint’.

 As a general rule, slides should be the sideshow to you, the presenter. A good set of slides

should be no use without the presenter, and they should definitely contain less, rather

than more, information, expressed simply.


 If you need to provide more information, create a bespoke handout and give it

out after your presentation.

7. Tell Stories

Human beings are programmed to respond to stories.

Stories help us to pay attention, and also to remember things. If you can use stories in your

presentation, your audience is more likely to engage and to remember your points afterwards. It

is a good idea to start with a story, but there is a wider point too: you need your presentation to

act like a story.

Think about what story you are trying to tell your audience, and create your presentation to tell

it.

Finding The Story Behind Your Presentation

To effectively tell a story, focus on using at least one of the two most basic storytelling

mechanics in your presentation:

Focusing On Characters – People have stories; things, data, and objects do not. So ask

yourself “who” is directly involved in your topic that you can use as the focal point of

your story.
For example, instead of talking about cars (your company’s products), you could focus

on specific characters like:

The drivers the car is intended for – people looking for speed and adventure

The engineers who went out of their way to design the most cost-effective car imaginable

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