Most Common Presentation Mistakes Engineering Design and Development
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Most Common Presentation Mistakes Engineering Design and Development © 2013 Project Lead The Way, Inc.
Most Common Power. Point Mistakes • • Common Power. Point Mistakes Useable Data vs. Total Number of Slides Effectiveness vs. Data Font Analysis
Common Power. Point Mistakes People tend to put every word they are going to say onto their Power. Point slides. Although this eliminates the need to memorize your talk, ultimately this makes your slides overcrowded, wordy, and boring. You will lose your audience before you even reach the bottom of your first slide.
Common Power. Point Mistakes EYE TEST We recognize the need to keep text large. As the text progresses down the page, We have a desire, false sense, and belief That it is best to keep all text together on one slide within the presentation. Eventually, only the people in the first row can even see and read the text on the slide.
Common Power. Point Mistakes Many peple do not run spel cheek before ther presentation – BIG MISTAK!!! Nothen makes you lok les perpared than spelin erors.
Common Power. Point Mistakes 4) Avoid Excessive Bullet. Pointing. Only Bullet Key Points. Too Many Bullet-Points And Your Key Messages Will NOT Stand Out. In fact, The Term “Bullet-Point” Comes From People Firing Guns at Annoying Presenters.
Common Power. Point Mistakes • Bad Color Schemes Clashing background and font colors can lead to: – Distraction – Confusion – Headaches – Nausea – Vomiting – Loss of Bladder Control
Common Power. Point Mistakes Excessive use of color within the presentation slides tends to confuse the audience as they try to understand the: – – – Purpose Reason Scheme Flow Why you did this to me
Common Power. Point Mistakes Inappropriate use of graphics
Common Power. Point Mistakes No explanation for why the image is relevant
Common Power. Point Mistakes Use images convey message and to tell a Using words to instead ofaimages, charts, graphs, story. etc.
Common Power. Point Mistakes Images are only a decoration
Effectiveness of Useable Data (High = 1) Useable Data vs. Total Number of Slides 1 0, 8 0, 6 This Presentation 0, 4 0, 2 X 0 0 10 20 30 40 Total Number of Slides 50 60
100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 98. 24 82. 3 84. 1 76. 7 71. 4 71. 8 69. 3 48. 9 1 Base 88. 5 76. 3 91. 4 71. 4 91. 39 76. 2 71. 78 87. 52 85. 96 Laughs (db) Effectiveness of Useable Data (High = 1) Effectiveness vs. Data 41. 4 2 Shading 3 3 D 4 2 nd Order 5 3 rd Order Number of Slides 6 Labels 7
120 100 76. 7 80 71. 471. 8 69. 3 60 48. 9 40 98. 24 88. 5 91. 4 91. 39 84. 1 82. 3 76. 3 71. 4 76. 2 71. 78 87. 52 85. 96 Laughs (db) Effectiveness of Useable Data (High = 1) Effectiveness vs. Data 41. 4 20 0 Base Shading 3 D 2 nd Order 3 rd Order Labels 1 92, 75 62, 81 68, 42 55, 66 49, 62 88, 06 2 86, 23 68, 33 75, 21 67, 32 68, 15 68, 4 3 77, 62 73, 81 78, 84 74, 97 85, 96 83, 85 4 70, 34 80, 29 67, 54 86, 33 80, 72 90, 31 Number of Slides 5 62, 95 87, 73 72, 83 87, 51 68, 73 87, 71 6 54, 12 92, 11 68, 11 78, 29 92, 19 96, 44 7 50, 82 82, 73 63, 77 55, 17 82, 04 82, 22
Font Analysis Courier New Organized and structured Pristina Artistic Times New Roman Lazy, apathetic, unimaginative (always use the default)
Font Analysis Freehand Script (Freehand Script) You are a poor speller, so you hide it with a hard to read font. Wingdings (Wingdings) You’ re a nerd and have Barcode ( ) You’re a machine and did not even know it. no
Most Common Power. Point Mistakes • • • Common Power. Point Mistakes Useable Data vs. Total Number of Slides Effectiveness vs. Data Animation vs. Effectiveness Font Analysis
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