Material resources management

 

You might be comfortable managing your stakeholders, the audience, during a presentation. Do you manage your presentation material properly?

Visual aids are great tools to support a point and increase understanding. From PowerPoints to props, visual aids may even be time savers.

The right visual aid will depend on the information you wish to convey and the size of your audience.

Visual aids need to enhance, not detract from, your delivery. Keep your visual aids simple and consistent. Don’t speak while you’re writing on a white board or flip chart.

A visual aid should support one main point. In the case of PowerPoint, that means you want each slide to represent one idea. Leave lots of white space. You want your audience to be looking at you, not your visual aid. If need be, give them a copy of the slides, after the presentation. It’s probably a good backup plan to have paper copies on hand, anyway.

Remember that a presentation is about you and the message. It is never about the visual aids. Plan your presentation like a project and your message will be understood and appreciated by the audience.