Presentations
From Antalya
Helping you bring your ideas across
You give the talk, presentations will just help you along the way. The better you become, the less you will need the help of presentations.
If you work in a technical field, giving presentations is part of the job. Unfortunately, others will end up judging your work on how well you are able to present it, so doing this well will be quite helpful.
Here are some basic principles
- Anyone can give a good presentation, you just need to work on it.
- Everybody is different, know what your strengths are and make sure to utilize them well. Know what your weaknesses are, work on them (yes.. and read Sun Tzu). Be yourself and do not try to emulate others
- (and after I say the above) Listen to others, learn their tricks, steal what works, avoid what you do not like in their presentations as well. You can learn something from every presentation.
- If you are really good at explaining, if you have something that everyone will want to listen, ideally you do not need any presentation behind you. If you want to get better, you will learn to put less and less on your slides.
- Presentations are not a document to read. Many people will want your slides and I see many students study from a slideset, but that is not why a presentation is for.
- It is all about telling a good story, never forget that.
Getting started
- Only put what is needed, less is more
- Tables and figures should support your message, their results must be clear at first sight, avoid data dumps
- You need a consistent style.
- Slide titles should give a message
- Sketch first
Topics
- Preparing Presentations
- Style
- Fonts - Colors - Aspect Ratio - Animations
- Images
- Tables