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Making Your Meetings Work

Video: Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations (3:15)

VIDEO MENU * denotes current video Making Your Meetings Work   Introduction Small Meetings   Planning Informal Meetings Structured Meetings Large Meetings   Planning Large Meetings Techniques   Panel Discussions Brainstorming Role Playing * Effective Use of PowerPoint Brief Solution Groups Quiz (for CE credit)

Essential Elements PowerPoint should be used as a framework or guide to information. It can also accentuate a presentation by adding pictures, diagrams, audio or video, and animation. Here are a few guidelines to follow: AVOID reading straight from the PowerPoint slides. AVOID talking to your slides. Talk to your audience. Good rule of thumb when using PowerPoint as part of an oral presentation: Spend 30 seconds to one minute per slide. Title font should be about 44; text font about 30. No more than six bullets per slide. No more than six words per bullet. To keep the audience from getting bored during a presentation using PowerPoint, try: using the PowerPoint at the end of the presentation as a summary. walking around to keep the audience focused on you instead of the slide. turning off PowerPoint from time to time to intersperse information. incorporating other meeting formats when using PowerPoint. Ideas include: Group activities, such as role play or discussion Stretching exercises Meet and greet exercises Writing notes on the board

Quick Facts PowerPoint can accentuate and guide a presentation. Do not read or talk to the PowerPoint: talk to the audience. Change presentation format to keep the audience interested. Offer the PowerPoint at the end of the lecture.