When you give a presentation, try to avoid the following common mistakes:
- Too much text
The best way to bore your audience. Also, audience will start focusing and reading the text and ignore your talk. - Read slides
People read text faster than you. Your reading becomes a distraction. - Small font
The smallest font should be >24 point. - Too many slides
Keep it 10-20. - Long presentation
People have hard time to concentrate more than 20min. - Not explain what x-axis and y-axis are
Even smart audience won’t know what the x- and y-axis stand for in your diagram. - Not interact with audience
Try to walk around, make eye contact etc - Not repeat audience’s question before answering it
Unless you are sure everybody heard the question, you should repeat the question first. - Not say “good question” before answering an audience’s question
The easiest way to make people feel good, why not do it?
