10 Steps to Successful Presentations

STEP THREE

Create Appropriate Visual Aids

OVERVIEW

Benefits of visual aids

Determining which visual aid(s) meet your needs

Visual aid myths, facts, and guidelines

Mastering different types of visual aids

Chances are, you’ll use at least one visual aid to support your presentation. Visual aids help to make bland presentations come to life—and as the saying goes, sometimes a picture is worth 1,000 words. Keep in mind that sometimes visual aids can have the opposite effect and turn a presentation into a disaster if they are not used effectively.

You’ve probably attended a presentation at one time during which it was clear that the presenter just learned how to add animation and sound to slides in the presentation—so much so that every time something ...