PowerPoint tip 6.
Have a sound, clear structure
Take a page out out the McKinsey presentation
handbook: presentation structure is paramount. Without
it, your wonderful style, delivery and great supporting
visuals will fall flat. If you took the time in the first step
to outline your ideas and set them up in a logical
fashion, then your thinking should be very clear. You can
visualize the logic of your content and the flow of the
presentation. If your ideas are not clear first, it will be
impossible to design the proper structure later when you create visuals and/or
supporting documents. Your audience needs to see where you are going. And it is not
enough to simply have an “agenda” or “road map” slide in the beginning that illustrates
the organization of your talk. If you do not actually have a solid road of logic and
structure, then an outline slide will be of no use. In fact, the audience may become
even more irritated since you made the promise of organization in the beginning, but
then failed to deliver the promise with a presentation which is muddled and lacks

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