Powerpoint Skills

Only learning in Public Speaking Skills were not enough. You have also need Powerpoint Skills as well as your public speaking skills. Absolutely, presentation by powerpoint more effective.

Powerpoint skills that you have to learn:

  • How to present information in the power point slide

  • How to create an impressive effect

  • How to choose a powerpoint presentation template

  • How to serve pictures and graphs

  • Letter usage rules


In this occasion I would like to talk about point#1 first. Another thing you'll find at a later time.

Present your information:

  • Show main point only, do not write lengthy sentence

  • Not too many effects that make confuse your audience

  • Do not use small letters, at least Arial 20 points

  • Consistency letters used, effects, background etc.

  • Discard slides are less important

  • Drawings, charts, flowcharts gives more meaning than words

  • Using bullets


Compare the two slides below:

Powerpoint Skills Sample Pic


Of course, slide#2 more friendly with your audience. Make sure that you use it and give enough explanation to them. Upgrade your powerpoint skills today!

Important tips to improve your PowerPoint skills:
Reduce the number of PowerPoint slides
Use the PowerPoint slides as efficient as possible. Remove slides that do not need as much as possible. Look again, and remove that you feel are not necessary. Perform this step over and over until you are sure there are no more slides that can be removed. The ability to reduce the number of slides is one of the PowerPoint skills you should have. Carry out the way as I have mentioned above.

Use images
Other PowerPoint skills you need to improve is the ability to replace words or data with images or graphs. Visually apparent (i.e. picture) can help create a feeling of the audience, can help make complex processes easier to understand, etc.

So, try to think carefully how as many words or data can be replaced with a picture or graphic. This is a very interesting PowerPoint skills to be learned.

Use Simple Text
If you need to present some text in a presentation, make sure you use the simple text. Let's see your text .... Is there a word that can be discarded? Read again, think again whether there are words that can be removed again. Repeat this step until you are sure your text is as short as possible, but easy to understand. Strive text that you create can be understood in 3 seconds. Presenters who use too many words in a PowerPoint presentation showing the PowerPoint skills are still low. Immediately develop PowerPoint skills for make participants happy.

Use the additional slides
Make some additional slides actually not part of the PowerPoint skills, but this is very important for you to know. Make several slides reserves are located after the last major slide. This additional slide, in under normal circumstances is not presented. They will be presented if there is a question whose answer requires detail and more detailed. For specific data that supports your statement officially. Or a more complicated process diagrams.

The ability to open and closing presentation, the actual PowerPoint skills
This is the most important PowerPoint skills among the others. In a presentation, the two most crucial are the closing and the opening section. Make sure both of these can make a profound impression for your participants.

Actually, makes an interesting closing precisely the more important. Because there is the main message you want to convey. Participants must be always remembered by your closing message.

Opening PowerPoint skills
Make an interestng slide. This can usually use the statistical data which riveting, surprising facts, humor or series of words that can inspire the heart.

Closing PowerPoint skills
Make the most interesting slides to close your presentation. For the closing, you need to give a conclusion and a sharp message. This is not the same as ice breaker, but rather to how open his eyes wider. Way that can be used for this purpose, among others, is to use parable, then concluded, and give deep messages that relate to your conclusions.

Make your audience spellbound with improving your PowerPoint skills today!
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