If you’re like me, you prepare a lot of PowerPoint presentations. I’ve been creating slide presentations for nearly 20 years. In that time I’ve learned a few things about how to make presentation slides useful and stimulating.
I won’t say my slides are works of art — I know they’re not. And for the first decade of my business career they were pretty boring. They were almost all text! But over the years I’ve learned a few things about how to keep them functional, simple, yet visually stimulating. Here are a few things I’ve learned:
Use an image at least every-other slide – Nothing is more boring than a slide presentation consisting of an unrelenting sea of text! Images “open up” your slides and draw the viewer in. Images stimulate our right brain (intuitive / creative side) while words stimulate our left brain (analytical side). Thus, you give your slides more sensory appeal by including an image (or chart) on every slide — or at the very least, on every other slide.
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Author: Anita Campbell
