Effective way of making
presentations/papers for your work
While presenting your work with the clients or with any group of
people, the stuff/information that you are providing to the
audience is very important. Sometime, one can have a bag full of
relevant information, however, the audience is still not able to
relate to the product/paper due to inefficient presentation of the
work. To successfully sell your work to the audience it is very
important to have a good, effective presentation for the work.
Below we are going to discuss, some blunders that can be avoided
while preparing the presentation to make an impact on the
audience.
- Knowledge of the work - Before starting with any presentation
of the work, firstly it is very important to have a knowledge about
the stuff. lets say you are giving a presentation for a product
launch, if you yourself not know the features of the product, it
will become a disaster during the presentation.
- Jot down the important points - sometime, people while
preparing the presentation, keep all the written stuff in the
slides instead of making it a point wise. it is important to write
down the important stuff that will be useful in presentation and
avoid crowding the slides.
- Highlighting - while making presentation, it will become easier
for the presenter and for the audience, when the slides contain
some bullet point or sighted information on the slides. it will
become easier to remember.
- Presentation or paper should be simple, do not use jargons or
technical words in the presentation a lot, as it will be difficult
for a common person, who does not know the technical words to
understand it and ultimately he will loose interest in your
work.
- Graphics or photos - keeping graphics in the presentation, not
only beautify the work, but it will again become easier for a
common person to understand and remember the work. Keep high
quality graphics in the report, this will help in solving the
problem.
- Use of charts or graphs also helps in this aspect, whenever you
want to show a trend of something instead of making big tables,
make charts as this will be visually effective for the audience to
understand instead of going through each cells of the table.
- Fonts, again selection of fonts is very important. do not keep
trendy fonts which are difficult to read. keep it as simple as
possible yet elegant.
- Limit punctuation - you do not have to use exclamations, etc.
in the slide instead use it while talking about it in your
speech.
- Do not make long slides or papers, as again it will become
boring after one point of time. make it crisp instead.
These are the simple tips to have an effective presentation.