Best Presentation Tips of 2015
It’s that time of year again. As business starts to slow down and holiday festivities start to ramp up, it is the perfect time to reflect on the past 12 months.
Since this is also the season of giving, I want to share with you some of the insights I gained from my reflections on the past year. More specifically, I want to give you the gift of the best presentation tips of 2015.
After reviewing social media shares, page views, as well as time spent on the page, the blog posts below emerged as the most impactful presentation tips on the Ethos3 blog in 2015.
1. Free Stock Photos For Your Professional Presentations
To help you find free stock photos to beautify your professional presentations, here are some wonderful sites that provide free stock photos.
2. How-To Conquer Short Attention Spans
Use these 5 tips to connect with your audience members, and expand their attention spans to the length of your talk.
3. Why Bullet Points Kill Presentations
Bullet point lists kill presentations because your audience will struggle to pay attention to your lists, agree with your lists, and recall your lists. So, how can you avoid bullet points, and similar lists of text in your presentations?
4. Design Presentations with Consistent Color Schemes
To get you moving towards a cohesive deck, here’s an insider secret to help you design a presentation with a consistent color scheme.
5. Minimize The Extraneous Load of Your Presentations
If you want your audience to learn anything from your presentation, you need to understand and utilize Cognitive Load Theory.
6. The TED staff answers: What Makes A Great TED Talk?
Elaborating on the critical importance of keeping one idea as the guiding light of a TED talk, June Cohen shared additional tips for speakers who strive to deliver a presentation in the wildly successful TED style.
7. Flowvella Demo: 5 Features of the Presentation Software
Review the 5 noteworthy features highlighted in our Flowvella demo video, and then read our blog post to learn more about this great presentation tool.
8. Storytelling Tips for Presentations
Before you sit down at your computer, stare at a blank screen, and suffer from writer’s block, try one of these tips to get inspired to write the perfect story for your next presentation.
9. Books To Help You Improve Your Presentations
These 9 books were selected because they offer insights that can help you refine and elevate your presentation skills.
10. A Simple Alternative To Bullet Points
To help you avoid creating presentations that result in Death By Powerpoint for your audience, I want to show you an easy alternative to bullet points.
11. Storytelling Tips from Acclaimed Writer Burt Helm
These 3 storytelling tips will help you captivate your audience during presentations, or catch the eye of an editor with your article pitch.
12. Fight Your Fear of Public Speaking – 4 Proven Methods
Recent studies are shaking up the traditional approaches to managing pre-performance stress. The new solutions to public speaking anxiety are highly effective and easy to practice.
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13. How To Introduce Yourself Before A Presentation
Your introduction before your presentation is one of the most important aspects of a presentation, and should not be left to chance. To help you brainstorm ideas for your introduction, here are 5 techniques worth considering.
14. The Science of Influence – And What It Means For Your Presentations
To effectively influence your audience to pay attention to you and give your ideas the time of day, try these 6 rules of influence as developed by Robert Cialdini, the Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University and the president of the consulting firm Influence at Work.
15. PowerPoint Alternatives
f you’re interested in taking some PowerPoint alternatives out for a spin before your next presentation, give these options a whirl.
16. The Advice I Give To All TEDx Speakers
Even if you are not giving your talk on a TED stage, these two pieces of advice will still help you create a powerful presentation.
17. Leadership Quotes To Inspire Your Next Presentation
These quotes will get you back on track so you can infuse your presentation with enough inspiration and insight to get you a standing ovation when you’re done delivering your message.
18. Why You Will Love Cinemagraphs for Presentations
If you choose to use cinemagraphs in your presentation designs, you will likely fall in love with this style, just as I have. And your audience will love you for your creative and refreshing approach to presenting.
19. How To Prepare For A Presentation
To simplify presentation preparation for you, here are 10 steps you should consider completing as you get ready for an upcoming presentation.
20. Create Memorable Presentations With These Tricks
These principles will help you create presentations that put your main ideas in the forefront of attendees’ memories for a long time.
Conclusion
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