Presentation tips on using Powerpoint

If you find yourself so rarely giving presentations that when the time comes to do one, you forget everything you know and return to your default position:

• stand in front of the screen,
• flip through colourful slides with or without clever animations,
• accidentally forget to delete a couple of irrelevant slides,
• and
• continually look back at the screen while you talk to remind yourself what it is you're saying while you see eyes glaze and feet shuffle in the audience in front of you...

then these little tips should help sharpen the saw and remind yourself to put you, the presenter front and centre, not the slide pack. Be happy to be there, be confident, talk to the audience like they're having lunch with you, not that they're locked in a room with you against their will and you should be able to keep them interested in the content of what you are saying, not your very chilled not-too-fancy not-too-clever visual aids behind you.