Before&After: You, Not Your PowerPoint slides, Are the Key to a Great Presentation

Do you have a speech to give? Presentation software like PowerPoint or Keynote makes it easy to add slides, which can include your company logo and colors, headlines, bullet points, photos, video clips, charts and more. Transitions can be made with cinematic dissolves, wipes and other effects. All of this is helpful. But the most important thing to remember is that you, not your slides, are the show. This 15-page article from issue 43 of Before&After Magazine shows you four basics of creating slides that don’t make a documentary but instead supplement your story with easy-to-remember points.

Make one point per slide! Remember, you are the show, and your slides are memory prompts. Highlight one point that sums up each part of your outline, put it on the slide, and speak everything else.

© John McWade/Before&After Magazine, courtesy of Gaye Anne McWade.