Keep Your Slides Simple
When you deliver an online presentation, you want your slides to be captivating. To achieve this, don’t simply take your existing slides from live presentations and put them into your webinar—it won’t work! On a webinar, your audience is more easily distracted, has a shorter attention span, and can’t see you giving the information. So to keep your slides interesting for the virtual format, make the following adjustments:
1. Use more slides. Take the information that may have been on one slide for a live presentation, and spread it out over two or four slides for your webinar. That way, you will be changing slides more frequently, capturing your audience’s attention.
2. Put less on each slide. Make sure you only have 1-2 key points per slide. This will help your audience focus and recognize the important information more easily.
3. Use bullet points and a minimum font size of 24. This will help your slides look clean, simple, and easy to read, and it will highlight your key points.
4. 4×6 Rule. On each slide, try to use only four bullet points with six words per bullet point, or six bullet points with four words per bullet point. This way, your slides won’t look busy or confusing.
These guidelines will help your slides become attractive and concise, so that you can keep your audience’s attention.
Make Every Presentation Great,
Sheri Jeavons
