Table of Contents
Structure your Presentation
While making a power point presentation, you should focus on its structure. There should be a proper step-by-step flow of content inside your PPT. This way you can hold your audience. Do include a table of Index slide after the main heading slide. It will make it look professional.
QA session
If you giving a presentation inside an auditorium or an event, you need to think like your audience. What if you are attending a seminar and the host is just reading the PPT and trying to grab attention. Will it work? No, right.
So, it is better to interact with the audience between the session. You can take a 5 minute QA session in between after covering a major topic. This will allow the audience to participate and feel as a part of the session.
Insert a video into your presentation
Most of the people think, a presentation is just a piece of text. If this is a case with you, then it is a myth. A presentation is a piece of content. It could be anything (image, video, text or a combination).
Insert a short video into the presentation relevant to your topic to make it an effective power point presentation. Also, you can embed a video as well through a link of website or Youtube.
Add infographic or images
Explore the royalty free images websites like Pexels.com, collect some high quality images to add inside the presentation. This will boost engagement of your audience.
If you want to add statistics or any data to add value to the presentation, then you can add either screenshots or infographics. Search on the web, you will find such metrics in visual formats. Download and add them to the presentation. Do not forget to cite the site name from where you sourcing the visuals.
Conclude it with an ending note
Introduction and conclusion both plays a key role in the presentation. So, you should add an ending note to your presentation followed by thank you. This will send a warm gesture to the audience for listening your presentation giving you enough time.
If it is a PPT then you can add a Thank you image in the end to sum up the presentation. Explore some of the best thank you images for ppt for your next presentation.