This document provides 10 tips for preparing an effective presentation before actually giving it. The tips include knowing your audience and purpose, outlining your content, avoiding templates, reducing text, using simple fonts and layouts, limiting content to 1 point per slide, keeping it simple, and being aware of any presentation guidelines. It emphasizes starting preparation offline without technology, letting visuals support the presenter rather than replace them, and always having a backup plan in case of technical issues. The overall message is to focus on clearly communicating the most important messages to the audience above all other presentation elements.

1. An Amazing
Presentation
10 Killer Tips for
(Way Before You Actually Give One)

2. Being effective as a presenter
is really difficult, and you have to
think about many things even before
giving your actual presentation.

3. Things like
the light of
the room

4. The amount
of people in
the audience

5. Or the type of operating
system the computer you’ll
be using actually has.

6. Because let’s face it,
sometimes things
don’t come out as
you planned them.

7. And it’s exactly when those
things happen, that you have to
be one step ahead and adapt
to the new situation.

8. With that in mind,
we’ve decided to give
you 10 tips to read
before you prepare
your next big
presentation.
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9. Are you ready?

10. Know
yourAUD
IEN
CE

11. Remember that it’s
all about them.

12. Not you,
but them.

13. You’ve been
chosen to teach
your audience
something that
will benefit
them

14. So don’t bore them with useless
information or too much data.
z zz

15. Put yourself in their shoes.

16. Analyze how they’re more likely to process
the information you’re preparing.

17. Are they
teenagers?
Include images,
and videos,
popular
references and
talk to them
casually.

18. Are
they your
financial team
waiting for the past
semester reports? Share the
best results first, ask them questions,
use graphics instead of tables, prepare handouts.

19. Each audience is
unique, so make
sure that you
adapt your
presentation to
your audience.

20. Know
yourPUR
POSE

21. Your audience
has to leave the
room with a
single thing in
their mind…

22. what you
want for them
to do, reflect,
remember,
think.

23. That’s why you
actually have to
and build the rest of the presentation from there.
start with the end in mind

24. Just ask yourself:
“If the audience
could remember
only one thing
from my talk,
what would I
want it to be?”

25. When you know the answer to
this question, everything will
be easier. So structure
your presentation
around that.

26. Know
yourCO
NT
ENT

27. There’s
nothing better than
using pen and
paper to sketch how
your presentation
will flow.

28. Just write
everything you
can come up with…

29. Ideas, thoughts
about some subjects,
images or icons that
you’d like to use,
videos or stories that
can complement your
points, how you’ll
divide your talk, etc.

30. Notice
that we don’t even
need to open PowerPoint or
Keynote for these first three tips!

31. Which is actually an
important point!

32. Starting offline
and away from
your computer
will help you get
inspired and boost
your creativity.

33. Avoid
TEM
PLA
TES

34. The truth is that
you don’t really need them.

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The idea of having everything ready for you to
fill up, can work for presentations that need to
be released continuously.
Some other decorative add-ons

36. Click to add Title
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Logo
The idea of having everything ready for you to
fill up, can work for presentations that need to
be released continuously.
Some other decorative add-ons
But for the best presentation
you’ve ever did? We don’t think so.

37. You should start with a blank slide
and nothing else.

38. Without limits and restrictions that
condition you along the entire presentation.
Limits
Restrictions
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39. Just a blank slide in front of you.

40. And you start to see
all the amazing
possibilities that
come with that…

41. Full-screen
images and
videos

42. A text-box
with a single
message on
it.
TOGETHER
WE
CREATE.

43. Experimentation
is key here.

44. Just try and test
all the amazing tools
PowerPoint and Keynote
have for you (without you
even knowing*)
*Because you’ve been using templates all the time.

45. Reduce
text to
a
MINI
MUM

46. Text is virtually useless
when you’re talking in
front of your slides.

48. Actually, the best slides
are the ones with no
text at all.

49. When you let
images, icons and
graphics illustrate
and explain your
thoughts, points
and ideas.

50. Remember that slides are
there to support you, not
to make you invisible.

51. So, learn to see what’s important and what’s not,
what you can include in the slides and
what you can actually talk about
in further detail.

52. Make
itLE
GI
BLE

53. Use a font
style that is
simple and
clear.

54. * A French/Dutch term meaning “without outside lines”
When
it comes to slides,
we recommend
using Sans Serif*
fonts

55. Arial,
Futura,
Century Gothic
Calibri.
or
Like

56. They all have
plain straight
lines and shapes,
which means they
are easy to read
when projected.

57. (Also known as Serif fonts.)
Times New Roman,
Courier New,
Georgia,
Rockwell…
or
Unlike

58. … that have extra
decorative details
outside their letter
lines.

59. And now that
you already know
which types of
fonts work better
in presentations,

60. make them bigtoo.

61. BIG
Really
Like…

62. Big enough to be read at a
distance of 4 meters.

63. 60 pts.
90 pts.
120 pts.
30 pts.
A good rule of thumb is
to never use font sizes
that are less than

64. See
slides
as
ADS

65. Nothing
is more powerful
than a message
delivered
effectively as an
ad in a magazine
or a billboard.

66. A
powerful image
and just the right amount
of information.

67. 1
That’s why you need to
limit your ideas to
per slide
1

68. Especially if you have
lots of information.
In that case, break it
up into more than
one slide.

69. The points
per slide are
important too
Try to limit
them to
3 per slide
To not
overload it
with too
many things
One Two Three

70. Because just like an
ad, the audience
should be able to
grasp your points
in less than
5seconds

71. 5 seconds
should be
ENOUGH.

72. So your audience can actually listen
to what you have to say instead of
reading what’s on your slides.

73. Keep
itSIM
PL
E

74. This should be the basis for the entire
process of creating a presentation.

75. Don’t let your message get lost in the middle
of complicated definitions, busy charts
and unnecessary slides. Just
focus on what’s really
important.

76. Every slide
should have
always a clear
objective.

77. So don’t feel tempted to fill it with

78. So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos,

79. So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos,
page numbers,
79

80. 79
Keep it Simple
• This should be the basis for the entire
process of creating a presentation
• Don’t let your message get lost in the
middle of complicated definitions, busy
charts and unnecessary slides. Just
focus on what’s really
important
• Every slide should have always a clear
objective
• So don’t feel tempted to fill it with
logos, page numbers, more text…
So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos,
page numbers, more text

81. So don’t feel tempted to fill it with logos,
page numbers, more text or anything else
that will end up distracting your
audience.
79
Keep it Simple
• This should be the basis for the entire
process of creating a presentation
• Don’t let your message get lost in the
middle of complicated definitions, busy
charts and unnecessary slides. Just
focus on what’s really
important
• Every slide should have always a clear
objective
• So don’t feel tempted to fill it with
logos, page numbers, more text…

82. White space is actually very
precious in graphic design.

83. powerfulRespect it and you’ll see how
powerful your message becomes.

84. Be
aware
of
EVER
YTHI
NG

85. Almost every
presentation has to
adjust itself to some
guidelines.

86. And it’s your
job to find out
what they are
and plan your
talk according
to them.

87. Like knowing if you’re allowed
to use your computer or not.

88. If your version of Microsoft
Office is supported.
!

89. If the operating system is
either Microsoft or Apple.

90. 4:3
Standard
If slides need to be
widescreen or standard.
16:9
Widescreen

91. If you need to install other fonts or just
use the ones that comes with Office.
Aa

92. If you’re allowed to use a pointer.

93. If they have a remote or you
need to bring your own.

94. You can’t leave
anything by chance!

95. Because the real success of your
presentation depends even of the things
you can’t completely control.

96. Always
BACK
UP

97. Accidents
happen.

98. You have to be ready to face
them in case something
happens while you’re
presenting.

99. Save your presentation as a PDF.

100. Take a printable version of it with you.

101. Write up some notes in a few cards.
10 Killer Tips (Pt. 1)
Light in room + your audience
Intro (3min)
Operating system… problems: adapt!
10 tips introduction
Talk about personal experience (5min)

102. You’ll be
able to continue
just in case
electricity goes
down or the
projector stops
working
Believe it or not, it
happens a lot!

103. But
technical
issues don’t
have to limit
you!

104. If you follow these tips carefully, you’ll be
ready to continue and deliver an amazing
presentation with or without slides.

105. The stage is all yours now.

106. But before we go...

107. We have
3 more
things
to tell you.

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