How to Create Excellent Visual Aids for Your Presentation
Make your presentation more engaging, more compelling and more memorable with good visual aids. And, let’s face it, that means slides.
Whether you favor PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Prezzi, or another tool, how can you create excellent visual aids to support your presentation?
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Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*.
🔎 See below for details
PRESENTATION SKILLS
This video is part of course module 2.2.1
Program 2: Manager as Communicator
Course 2: Presentation Skills
Section 1: Preparation
Other videos in this section include:
🎬 Define Your Presentation: Defusing the B.O.M.B.
https://youtu.be/-MHhwQxE3yg
🎬 How to Craft a Compelling, Persuasive, and Powerful Presentation
https://youtu.be/AKtI5QgLFX0
🎬 How to Craft a Compelling Presentation Structure
https://youtu.be/cwdhUk2IZPQ
🎬 Five Simple Structures for a Compelling Presentation
https://youtu.be/fqTA6Kybw0E
🎬 Opening Your Presentation: How to Hook your Audience
https://youtu.be/oIIsJZWd1QU
🎬 Closing: How to Finish Your Presentation with Real Impact
https://youtu.be/7UCMi5JYSuM
🎬 How to Make the Key Points of Your Presentation Memorable
https://youtu.be/fHDLO6f2Syc
🎬 How to Create Excellent Visual Aids for Your Presentation
https://youtu.be/jP2Q5Kdq_Ww
🎬 Preparation is Key: How to Review and Rehearse Your Presentation
https://youtu.be/_9bOgcBNaeU
LESSON NOTES
Remember the purpose of your visual aids…
They are an aid for your audience
- Less is more
- Distinguish between what belongs on a screen and what you should save for handouts or reference material
- Use graphs ‘honestly’ to give a fair representation of the data
- Put yourself in the place of your audience how will they see your slides or other visual aids?
- Respect your organization’s house style and be aware of the need to protect their brand
- Big impact comes from simplicity of design
- Avoid anything flashy
- Your job is to persuade your audience you know what you are talking about: not that you can use all the neat tricks that PowerPoint offers
- Break any of these rules only if you are convinced that to do so will really strengthen your message
Checking
Test images and watermarks with a projector
Check for errors. Then, check again. Then ask a colleague to check for you!
RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
Next time you create visual aids or slides for your presentation:
1. Check that they are optimized for your audience, not for you (1 MC CPD Points)
2. Does the content work and is it as simple as possible? (2 MC CPD Points)
3. Does the design and format properly enhance your slides? (2 MC CPD Points)
4. Have you checked them... thoroughly?
...Really? (2 MC CPD Points)
DOWNLOADS
Free Resources
🧰 CPD Tools -
https://gum.co/MC-CPD
Paid resources
🧳 Management Courses Onboarding Kit -
https://gum.co/MC-ObK ($3)
RECOMMENDED READING
My top recommendation is my own book:
📖 How to Speak so people Listen -
https://geni.us/HSPL
Other Recommendations:
📖 The Presentation Book -
https://geni.us/6sqr
📖 Presentation Zen -
https://geni.us/mrvmeh
📖 The Pyramid Principle -
https://geni.us/9cbjvBs
📖 The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs -
https://geni.us/KJpG
⭕️ Links to our book recommendations are affiliated through Amazon and help support our free videos
Managers Need a Basic set of kit to do your job well. Here are my top recommendations:
https://kit.co/MikeClayton/manager-s-work-kit (the links are affiliated)
BUT…
I have also created a Presenter’s Kit to accompany this course:
https://kit.co/MikeClayton/presenter-s-kit (the links are affiliated)
MANAGEMENT COURSES CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) POINTS
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Each video has two levels of MC CPD points. For this video:
- If you simply watched the video, record 2 MC CPD points
- If you also carried out all of the recommended exercises, score a total of 9 MC CPD points
CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 - Good visual aids make your presentation more…
00:33 - The purpose of your visual aids
00:58 - What visual aids are NOT for…
01:31 - Two elements to every visual aid
01:41 - Less is more
01:55 - Content
02:25 - Format
04:57 - Become more skillful
05:14 - Checking
05:55 - Conclusion
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About Mike Clayton
Dr Mike Clayton is a (former) Project Manager and now a management educator. Having trained thousands of people at live workshops, seminars, and conferences, he now delivers training mainly via video. He has 14 books with international publishers and runs two successful YouTube channels. He is also the founder of OnlinePMCourses.com