The secret to using PowerPoint as an effective communication tool can be summed up in one word: pictures.
Well, actually it’s pictures and NOT using those awful PowerPoint templates and clip art that are so compellingly offered in the program.
Here are the secrets to using PowerPoint in a way that will drive your point-of-view home successfully.
Make sure the slides you create reinforce your ideas in pictures rather than repeat your words.
Never give handouts of your PowerPoint slides. Without you, all the slides represent is the emotional element of the presentation.
Eliminate ALL PowerPoint background templates and bullet points.
Don’t use dissolves, transitions or spins. Make one point on a slide and move on to the next.
The point of PowerPoint is to create visuals that reinforce what you’re saying.
Remember, you are the words and the slides are the pictures that add emotion to your point-of-view.
