Do you have olny five minutes for your presentation? That's enough! You should, however, use no more than five slides when you deliver a short, five-minute presentation. Be prepared, the time you have is too valuable to be spent solving technical issues. Check laptops, microphones and overhead projectors as well, so that the time you have to deliver your information will not suffer. First impressions are highly important when you only have a few minutes to convey the message in your presentation, so smile and use open body language. What can we learn about presentation content? Follow these simple tips published on presentationmagazine.com.
1. Introduction
Show a slide with your name on it and add something that will grab your viewers' attention. You don’t have much time for building rapport, so take advantage of a quick and funny story or something similar.
2. One key point
State your core message and illustrate it with a pair of visual slides, then outline your arguments, just a short list of key facts, don’t go into too much detail. If you present your ideas in too much detail, you will lessen the strength of your core message. You need to explain the importance of your main point and make sure the impact of your speech is not mitigated by secondary issues.
3. Break your point into three concepts
Put these concepts on a single slide. This is so-called rule of three – the number three is persuasive. Breaking your key idea into 3 concepts allows you to create a structure – a structure that can be used in a story you can tell them. All you need is a beginning, middle and end.
4. Powerful conclusion
The last point in a sequence of information is most likely to be remembered by your audience, so end with something positive. You can add an element of suspense and then throw in a final pay-off line. Also, you could include a call to action, if you want them to do something specific.
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