“Oh my god! Not again! … my boss asked that I limit my presentation to only 3 slides. Last week I was told to include more information on my slides which already were cluttered with quite a lot of information.” These are common challenges faced by many individuals working in…

Are your slides meant for teaching? Are you aware of the differences between slides for teaching and slides for general presentations? I met with some educators from a local university, and the topic of how to design presentation slides for teaching purposes came up during the discussion. It was a very meaningful discussion, and I thought…

Ever wondered if there is such thing as the perfect slide? I have been searching for the formula to design the perfect slide for my presentations. Surfing through resources on the internet. Browsing through pages of visual design books that I have on my bookshelf. …

Are you looking forward to your next extraordinary presentation session? I am always excited and looking forward to sharing my ideas in a presentation. It doesn’t matter what type of presentation. Sometimes it’s a webinar presentation. Sometimes it’s presenting for a training session. …

Quite often, we have lots of things to display on our slides, and as a result, making it difficult for the audience to pinpoint what we are referring to on the slide during the presentation. A good practice would be to keep slides content to a minimum. However, this might…

You already knew that defining objectives is important, especially when designing presentations. Without clear objectives, we will not be able to get results. We will not be able to add meaningful content to the presentation slides. So, what are good objectives for presentations, and how do we define them? Having…

‘Thank you’, ‘The end’, ‘Q&A’. So these are the common words that we usually see that indicates the end of a presentation. Are these the best messages for the final slide? How does that create value as the takeaway message? Most of us make this very mistake by showing ‘Thank…