We’re often asked how many PowerPoint slide should be included in a presentation and how much time a presenter should spend on each.
Of course, the answer varies according to slide content, presentation format (proposal or tender highlights as opposed to small group discussions or full-scale lectures, presentation topic, audience size, your objectives, and other media or presentation aids which you may use in conjunction with PowerPoint.
Presenters may appropriately spend up to twenty minutes on a single slide, but wisely spend just a few seconds on others.
Slides which contain pictures, graphs, charts or diagrams, animations - and even video - are usually better subjects for long-stay slides than mere bulleted lists.
Too often we see overly-dense text material which presenters design as stalking points and mistakenly think are great as full text notes.
Remember, one of your key objectives is to keep your audience interest and engaged in your presentation: very difficult to achieve if they are bored to death !
But, interested and engaged does not mean “dazzled” by exotic special effects which detract from your message.
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