Humour can be a very powerful tool in presentations; it can cut through the boredom and lighten the mood. It is also a very good way of making a point...

The following is a summary of several types of presentations and their aim. Each kind of presentation requires a specific configuration to maximize their impact. 1. INSTRUCTIVE Make sure it...

Designing a presentation is hard enough, but if you do it for an international audience it becomes many times more difficult. Even if you don't take into account translating into...

Tailor your presentation so that it answers your viewers' questions and needs. The more you know about your audience and their concerns the better you'll be at meeting their needs....

What you should do during a presentation. Use eye contact. Look directly at them, they will feel that they are influencing what you are saying. Face the audience most of...

In previous posts on PowerPoint, we’ve been dealing with images and words. Now we move on to some of the salient points of using sound and music in PowerPoint. Sound...

One of the advantages of PowerPoint is that you can use images within the presentation slides, images that allow you to illustrate a point. However, like any other tool, this...

If we learn by our (and other people’s) mistakes then we should be quite wise by now. Luckily there are many mistakes that other people have made that we can...

Colour is a very good way of drawing attention to the text in a slide. However, people have a tendency to use too many colours in PowerPoint slides. This is...

We all make mistakes making PowerPoint slides, otherwise they would all be perfect! So, what are the most common mistakes that we should avoid? Not numbering the slides: If the...