Presentations Quick Tip

Once you have settled on key content points for your presentation, you still have to determine the best visual medium for reinforcing your spoken message. To accomplish this, you need to ask yourself three questions:  What size will my audience be, and how will a visual aid help support the point I am trying to make? Once you answer those two questions, you can then answer the last question, which is, “What visual aid method will work best in this setting?” When choosing the medium to visually emphasize your important ideas, keep in mind that PowerPoint slides, overheads and films or videos and DVDs displayed through large screen projection system work best for audiences of 40 and larger. For smaller audiences, overhead projector transparencies, videos or DVDs played on a television, PowerPoint slides with an LCD or DLP projector, and flip charts are the way to go.