Day in, and Day out, one must strive to prove their worth in the workplace. In a presentation, a worker’s skill and competence is put on display for all of his/her co-workers, so the importance of creating an effective presentation cannot be understated. The following are a few salient points about creating an effective presentation.
1. Using Vernacular Specific to Your Field
All of your co-workers, more than likely do not need you to explain the most basic terms about your field, so do not waste time explaining them. It would be completely inappropriate and redundant for an engineer proposing a design for a new bridge, to go back to square one and explain that gravity is defined as the acceleration of 2 masses towards each other. Likewise, when in a meeting with other accountants, I shouldn’t be explaining what debits and credits are.
2. Using All Capital Letters
Do not do this under any circumstances. You wouldn’t shout at your co-workers verbally, so don’t shout at them graphically. Using all capital letters would make you seem self-important and arrogant.
3. Using Photos, Charts, and Graphs
Part of creating an effective presentation is keeping the audience’s attention. Photos, charts, and graphs help break the monotony of pure text and also help to better illustrate salient points. Charts and graphs are far more effective at presenting numerical data across many years or sets than pure text. Make a professional looking graph or chart and statistics will “burn an image” in your audience’s head.
4. Computer Compatibility
In this day and age virtually all presentations are done with the aid of Microsoft Powerpoint. The most current versions are Microsoft Powerpoint 2003 and Microsoft Powerpoint 2007. Powerpoint 2003 which use the file extension .ppt are incapable of opening Powerpoint 2007 .pptx files. So it is crucial to know which version you will be using in your presentation, and save accordingly.
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ReplyDeleteGreat information, and very well presented. Try to use "I" more in your writing, but nothing else to critique. I love how you mentioned the importance of knowing if you're on 2003 or 2007 since so many people forget that. Great job! Two more to go!
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