Discover the Roadmap to Engaging PowerPoint Presentations

None of us wants to be the person who delivers boring presentations that put people to sleep. In this video I'll share with you simple techniques to give your PowerPoint presentation a perfect flow to captivate your audience and keep them engaged.

Creating great PowerPoint slides doesn't have to be difficult if you follow a few simple rules and some guidelines.

Use Roadmaps instead of a table of contents in your PowerPoint presentations
Use Infographics to indicate the progress that was made in the presentation. This way the audience knows where the end is and which remaining topics they can expect to learn from you.

Put Essential text only on slide and use a supporting Infographic or Roadmap
It's practical for you as the presenter to have everything you want to say on a slide. But the audience can't read the text on a crowded slide and listen to you at the same time. This will draw their attention away from you, the presenter.

Take advantage of the Reuse Slides Feature in PowerPoint
Avoid copying and pasting slides if you want to use slides from an existing presentation. Instead apply Reuse Slides from the Home tab in PowerPoint. It's faster and safer!

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00:00 What Makes a PowerPoint Presentation Boring?
01:48 Use Roadmaps in PowerPoint Instead of a Table of Contents
06:17 Only Put Essential Text and Use Supporting Infographics in Your Slide
07:28 Take advantage of the PowerPoint Reuse Slides Feature

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[fidgetshouse]

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[TienNguyen-wbyv]

1. Use roadmaps for orientation
2. Only use essential text
3. Use supporting infographic
4. Reuse slide features

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[tumipitsie]

Leila, thank you, thank you. Designing slides from scratch is time value destroyer.

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[primephoto-architekturinne]

Great tips, Leila. Besides well designed layout, graphics and structure for a presentation I would like to add another proven base rule for PPTs - it‘s called 10 - 20 - 30, which means maximum 10 slides per 20 minutes with no less than 30 points font size for text. Thus as a presenter I am forced not to REPEAT the slides‘ contents but to EXPLAIN them. Which in turn keeps up the attention of the audience.

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I literally didn't know anything about powerpoint, but I learn lots of things from you.❤

[williamwhistler]

I am an architect and environmental consultant. I have always attempted to use visual images photos & graphs (I'm a visual guy!) and limited the use of text or lists and never just "read" out the text of any slide. Why listen to the presenter when you can just read the slide? I am a passionate speaker so I wanted to "add" to the information on the slide to enhance its intended meeting. However, the organization of the topics towards a holistic goal has always been challenging. I like this visual "roadmap" idea and will check to simpleslides. Thank you for another great video:)

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I am one of your subscriber who eagerly waiting for your PowerPoint videos step by step topic just like Excel. If Possible please make more videos on Infographic and chart related slide/topics.

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This is some awesome information thanks fro sharing. A few years ago i managed a movie theatre and we had monthly employee meetings. Most of my employees were teenagers and keeping them engaged was a hard task. What I found to also work well was adding trivia questions with pictures or small video clips during the presentation. This kept them from reaching for their phones due to boredom. I also chose different background images with bright colors on each topic slide to keep them expecting something new to look forward to. I miss my time there.

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