Take the same principle and develop as many slides as you need to capture every meaningful component of your message. Remember, slides are empty canvases for your information. You can put a single word and a picture to demonstrate your point or words and a chart to do the exact same thing.
But practice this approach with caution. Time is the most precious thing we have in this world , and it is certainly the one thing you NEED to respect when it comes to your audience. That said, there is a misconception about time limits in presentations that you need to be aware of.
Avoid going for the minute s -per-slide approach. Many presenters feel that sustaining this number is crucial for delivery. For example, if someone was preparing 10 slides for a minute presentation, then that same person may feel dedicating 1 minute per slide is the way to go. The slide that took five minutes to present was also the slide that needed five minutes of my time to understand.
This highlighted that the slide in question was meaningful, insightful, and followed a pace that I was comfortable with.
Dedicate more of the time given to you to the content that matters most. You need to leave a chart on the screen long enough for the audience to understand it.
A photo, on the other hand, can flash up and go away quickly and still be understood. Carefully consider your presentation topic and then use this recommendation as needed: Allow for slides for a minute presentation. Once you get into the territory of longer presentations, you might want to use slides of varying types — some that are super quick and others that stay visible longer — to get different points across and fit the conversational flow.
This varying approach can be interesting for the audience but might require a little math and planning on your part to determine the exact right number of slides.
Now you can look at your content and do a few quick calculations to get a rough idea of how many slides you might need. For longer presentations, pace and energy are key. Until I can go slide-less, I have compromised at what I feel is the ideal number of slides for an hour-long presentation: about 15 slides including the title and conclusion slides.
Limiting the number of slides to 15 provides the perfect balance between flexibility and structure. You can pursue your ideas in a more freeform, natural way without being locked into a fixed, rigid order that might not fit the idea journey of your presentation. You might object and say that if you practice your presentation enough, the slides can exactly match the idea journey you want to tell.
Well, maybe. Consider the analogy of a conversation. You want to have talking points that allow you to move about in a more freeform way, not necessarily a rigid order in which each topic must be spoken. If you imagine yourself having a conversation with the audience rather than presenting a presentation , the talking points idea has more merit. Another Kawasaki principle is to limit the font to no less than 30 points. This is also key. When I see slides with extensive bulleted lists, I cringe.
While these bulleted lists might prompt the presenter with details to say, what ends up happening is the presenter more or less reads the slides and presents the presentation rather than telling a story. Whenever you present a slide with text, the first thing the audience does is tune you out and start reading the text. If you reveal the bulleted list point by point, it has the same effect as flashing multiple, separate slides on the screen: It locks the presenter into a fixed order that potentially interrupts the natural flow of the story.
Ideally, I think good slides should be idea diagrams or visual sketch notes that demonstrate your ideas. Some presenters just put photos from Flickr on their slides to generally depict an idea, but I like more purposeful concept diagrams that might have multiple ideas going on. For example, like this:. For my second presentation slides , I tried to include about 3 stories per slide depicting concept diagrams like this.
My thought was that I could glance at the pictures, and each picture would trigger 3 points to cover for the topic. It more or less worked. I also had slide notes in the presenter view that I could fall back on, but these presenter notes are challenging to read while speaking, and I think most presenters end up ignoring them. I use The Noun Project and Illustrator to create my concept diagrams, as it allows me to more easily manipulate different objects into the slides I want.
I end up exporting these artboards into my presentation. By the way, for most business presentations, if you can deliver the important things in a minute speech, you will be loved. If you require a minute presentation time, the audience will like you about three times less. For more details about how to design presentations or to use our helpful online presentation generator click here. The main difference is that you can add a couple more of your important points to the agenda.
If you are a new speaker, I suggest that most minute talks cover five main points. You can use the same technique as in the minute talk. Start with an introduction slide with an overview of all five bullet points.
On your internal slides, just cover the single main idea for each bullet. You will have five internal slides. Then, end with your summary slide with the main concepts one more time. For the more seasoned presenter, you can use just three main bullet points but add an extra relevant story to each point.
The more that you use this technique the easier you will find it to fit your content into the correct presentation length. For instance, if you find yourself rushing at the end without enough time to finish, you can give fewer details in your stories.
If you finish early, you can add more details into your examples and stories. For a minute presentation, use five bullet points and seven slides. This time insert a couple of different stories as evidence of each bullet point. On each of the internal slides, give your audience an example of yourself or someone else who did the opposite of the point. Then, follow up with a good example. If I were to use the technique to prove the point that you need seven slides for an hour presentation, I could use the following….
Bad Example : A few years ago, I went to a three-day seminar where the presenter taught about how to market to universities. On the first morning, his team gave each of us a three-ring binder with hundreds of pages.
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