Gar Reynolds
Best-selling Author, Speaker
Best-selling Author, Speaker
Design
Top Ten Slide Tips
- Keep it Simple
- Limit bullet points & text
- Limit transitions & builds (animation)
- Use high-quality graphics
- Have a visual theme, but avoid using PowerPoint templates
- Use appropriate charts
- Use color well
- Choose your fonts well
- Use video or audio
- Spend time in the slide sorter
Deliver
- Show your passion
- Start strong
- Keep it short
- Move away from the podium
- Use a remote-control device
- Remember the “B” key (if you press it the screen go blank)
- Make good eye contact
- Keep the lights on
- Use a TV for small groups
- At all times: courteous, gracious, & professional
Prepare
Organization & Preparation Tips
- Start with the end in mind
- Know your audience as well as possible
- Content, content, content
- Keep it simple
- Outlining your content
- Have a sound, clear structure
- Dakara nani? (a Japanese saying that translates to so what?)
- Can you pass the elevator test?
- The art of storytelling
- Confidence — How to get it