When using visual aides try to ask yourself how you
can demonstrate your point in the clearest and most interesting way given the
audience and facilities.
- Use visuals to
- Open the presentation and focus your audience
- Present the agenda
- Highlight key points and facts
- Act as transitions between topics
- Close the presentation and reaffirm key points
- Know what type of visuals are available and weigh the benefits of each:
PowerPoint, flip charts, slides, etc.
- Plan where visuals fit into the presentation
- Visuals should be:
- Clear and large enough to read
- Accurate
- Attractive
- Have one key point per visual
- Minimize words, use bullet points rather than complete
sentences
- Use colored graphics rather than text wherever possible
- Try to use only two or three colors
- Avoid pages of numbers, use graphs or charts instead
- Use pie charts to show how proportions relate to a whole
- Use graphs for showing trends and changes
- Use bar charts for comparisons
- Display the visual only when it relates to the point you are making
- Avoid
- Standing in front of your visual
- Speaking to your visual