by Gilda Bonanno LLC www.gildabonanno.com
1. Don’t clutter
the slides with everything you know
2. Don’t say to the
audience, “I know you cannot read this, but…”
3. Don’t include
information on your slides that is irrelevant to the one message you are trying to
convey
4. Don’t write out
your script in your slides
5. Don’t put
anything on your slides that you can’t explain
6. Don’t turn your
back to the audience in order to face the big screen
7. Don’t manually
advance the slides, thus forcing you to remain tethered to the computer
8. Don’t fill your slides
only with text – also use graphics
9. Don’t
present someone else’s slides
10. Don’t let
arbitrary limits on the number of slides you can have prevent you from
using as many slides as you need to convey your content clearly within
your time limit
11. Don’t forget that you are the
presentation and your slides are only the visual aid
12. Don’t let the slides get in the way of
your presentation or interfere with your ability to connect with your
audience
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