CHAPTER 12

Speaker Support—Making Your Messages Easier to Understand

  • To use slides or not to use slides, that is the question.
  • Effective slides are visual.
  • Best practices for PowerPoint slides.

To Use Slides or Not to Use Slides, That Is the Question

Successful messages are easily understood and show relationships between ideas. They move an audience from one idea to another in a seamless way, pulling them further and further into the presentation, making the audience wanting to hear more and more. Anything that interrupts that flow should not be used.

Answering the question of using slides or not is simple. Do you need something to enhance your ideas and make your content more compelling? Then slides are good to use. Slides are a good tool ...

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