Remember: every time you hit that clicker the audience leaves you and goes to the screen. Fancy transitions, YouTube clips, and tons of text steal from your content and delivery. People come to listen to you – your thoughts, interpretations and insights. Your slides are there to ADD to a well-designed speech, not replace it. ![]() Your slides are there to ADD to a well-designed speech, not to replace it. It’s like building a road – until you know where that road is heading there’s no point laying down sidewalks and planting trees. You could be tempted to start monkeying with slides early in your speech writing process – don’t. Here are my 10 easy ways to make any PowerPoint presentation awesome. If you’ve ever struggled to create interesting slides or worry your slides are too wordy or you have too many of them, this will help. Heck, they can even make an otherwise good presentation awesome. Well-designed slides, used sparingly and with good timing can be brilliant. Bad slides, delivered badly will make your audience regret their second serving at the buffet. We’ve all suffered through horrible slide shows with long lists of unreadable bullets, pixelated clip art delivered by a speaker who constantly turns away from the audience so they can read from the screen. Whether delivered in PowerPoint, on a PC, or Keynote, on a Mac, bad slides, delivered badly will make your audience regret their second serving at the buffet. The much-maligned PowerPoint is not dead.
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