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Some evaluative checklists are included below to help you analyze your presentation and each slide. Print them out and use them for each of your presentations. Presenters tend to get too involved in the details of designing their slides. It is therefore important to sit back and look at the slides as a group.
So once you have created and analyzed all your slides, lay them out, one slide per page, hard copy, on a table and look at them. Yes, you can see them on the computer screen, but you can't see them all at once. Also, you don't get the same sense as when you lay them out and see how they all look together. Make sure the presentation slides follow the guidelines on the Total Visual Checklist to assess how well you have put together your presentation. Then, take a second look at each slide by making sure each slide follows the guidelines on the Single-Slide Checklist.
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As you've seen in this chapter, a high-impact slide can enable you to present with more confidence and energy. Each slide can enable you to connect with your audience on an emotional level. It can give you a means to become a storyteller. And, most importantly, a high-impact slide can help you engage and connect to your audience. For in truth, that's what a presentation is all about -- connecting with your audience and imparting your knowledge, emotional commitment, and enthusiasm so that they also believe in what you are offering, be it a product, a service, or an idea.
If you'd like to read the entire book, Point, Click&Wow! A Quick Guide to Brilliant Laptop Presentations by Claudyne Wilder and Jennifer Rotondo, Claudyne offers it free when you purchase her CD: Slides That Win showing over 200 before and after PowerPoint slide examples (put in promotional code: pmaster). Find out more at wilderpresentations.com.
Claudyne Wilder is a recognized authority on the art of presentations. She has lectured at and consulted for many top corporations, including Gillette, Fidelity Investments, and Mercury Computer Systems. She's an acclaimed speaker, coach, published author of several books on presenting (Point, Click & Wow! A Quick Guide to Brilliant Laptop Presentations) and co-creator of the CD on visual design called Slides That Win: Your Roadmap to Success. Claudyne founded Wilder Presentations in 1984. She teaches her two day Winning Presentations Seminar to help people speak with confidence, capture the key messages needed to persuade the audience and turn their boring data slide presentations into a sales tool. She also does a three week tele-seminar to help people create slides that persuade. Reach her at claudyne@wilderpresentations.com, visit her Web site at wilderpresentations.com or call 617 524-7172.
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