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How to Change the World A practical blog for impractical people. « A Brief History of Mine | Main | Resolution Assistance » December 30, 2005 The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease—don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog. The symptoms of Ménière’s include hearing loss, tinnitus (a constant ringing sound), and vertigo.

When you leave here today, remember these three main points..." Bang! Most fireworks presentations feature a super-explosive Grand Finale. After 45 minutes or so of eliciting audience oooohs and ahhhhs, a fabulous fireworks show ends with an overwhelming sensory display that excites and mobilizes the crowd. The masses rise, stamp their feet, cheer wildly -- and go home feeling invigorated.

We talk a lot about organizing our content, main points, opening and closing, but we rarely talk about how to get from one segment to the next. Repeat and recap the main point you just covered. How do you handle the spaces in between your points, stories, examples, and exercises? These are your transitions .

The main point I want to make here is that, just because you perceive a question to be adversarial, doesn't mean it is adversarial. Do you ever feel like an audience member is attacking you when they ask challenging questions during your presentation? Hopefully, your audience doesn't actually try to discredit you or prove you wrong, as a client recently mentioned to me, but sometimes a particular question can provoke a feeling of anger or defensiveness.

Determine the key pieces of information/main points that will be relevant to the audience (and later, their clients). I'm working with a client who is scheduled to give a 12-minute industry presentation on a complex topic with lots of stats and data. She also has several great stories to illustrate her topic, activities for interaction with the audience, and good ideas for images for her PowerPoint.

His lighthearted approach also added some humor to the presentation, as his main point was that he was not going to talk about his business while, of course, talking about his business, and plugging other businesses in the process. Here's a quick tip to make your audience more receptive to your presentation: use their names in your talk! Last week at my networking group meeting, one of the speakers managed to mention five or six people in the room as he went through his ten-minute presentation.

I have some issues with this contest, the main one being that none of these slideshows is a "presentation." The winners have been announced in this year's " World's Best Presentation " contest at SlideShare.net. For a presentation to happen, you need a presenter and an audience. If a slideshow could stand alone, then none of us would ever have to show up.

Media consultants like TJ Walker would say to stick to your main points, repeat them over and over, and don't get off track - and that's what Clinton and Obama did. From the New Hampshire Democratic debate: GIBSON: Tell me one thing you've said in those debates that you wish you hadn't said. And it's your chance to take... (LAUGHTER)

Then he failed to make the final in the 100 meters and ended up watching his main competitor break a world record. How's your attitude? It's not just in the content, delivery, props and equipment that a speaker delivers a complete package. It's in the mental readiness, calmness mixed with excitement, a flexibility to go where the audience needs and wants to go, and a willingness and ability to handle whatever comes along.