Presentation Slideitis
Posted on October 10th, 2008, in Speeches | No Comments »
I have been to a few different conferences, and one of the biggest issues I have seen is how people put together their slides. It seems like everyone wants to write a novel or pack in as many words per slide as they possibly can, and in doing so, their slides become absolutely useless.
There is a simple rule to try to keep the number of words to around twenty-five per slide. Only around five bullet points, and one or two images. It makes it easy for people to read, understand, absorb and truly act on.
If you aren’t following the above rule, you are starting your presentation off on the wrong foot. Keeping it simple is always the best route, and with all of us suffering from various levels of information overload, please be kind and reduce the number of words, pictures and other distracting elements on your slides.
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