My experience at conferences and meetings is the same as it's been for years and years: heavily bulleted slides featuring boring corporate templates, too many words, and cheesy clipart. Show data on your slides only if the charts or graphs are simple, clean, and data points large enough to be seen in the back of the room. Here it is!

I've experienced two odd conference room configurations in the last month, and I thought I would share them with you. and a flip chart either between me and the screen, or behind me. The flip chart was in the opposite corner from me, and I would write on it, then pull the pages off and stick them to the wall behind me.

These slides should communicate: when the session will begin the conference dial-in number your photo, name, and title what the audience is going to learn what to do in case of problems. Outline your presentation on paper or a flip chart before you build the PowerPoint presentation. How do you catch and keep your audience?

These slides need to communicate: • When the session will begin. • The Conference Dial-in number. • A photo, name, and title of the presenter. • What the audience is going to learn. • What to do in case of problems. This gave Jim time to get his second laptop to the place where the first had frozen.

the conference dial-in number. Outline your presentation on paper or a flip chart before you build the PowerPoint presentation. was able to jump in and delivered my portion of the talk earlier than planned, which bought Jim enough time to get his second laptop to the place where the first had frozen. Here are 15 tips.