How will using templates help you in your corporate presentations?
REASON # 1: WIDE ACCEPTANCE AND POPULARITY
PowerPoint Presentations have permeated the business world so much that we equate any presentation to a PowerPoint Presentation. It has become an essential skill. Not knowing how to work with PowerPoint cripples you. In fact, it is like being considered the illiterate in the corporate circle. Its popularity has also ensured that resources are readily available – be it in terms of templates or professional offering services for it.
REASON #2: ENGAGING TWO SENSES OF THE AUDIENCE – VISUAL AND REASONING
Most free powerpoint templates provide preconfigured slides for charts, diagrams, and display of other raw data or even video and audio content. Plain text may not hold so much of an appeal for your audience. At the same time, using excess of animation and graphics can take the focus away from your actual content. This is a common pitfall of many presenters – that in their bid to showcase their skills, they overdo it. Engage the audience but don’t let the focus slip.
Visual and animated representations provide more clarity to the concept you’re discussing. For example: If you have a schematic diagram of some process, there will lots of arrows pointing everywhere. Unless you incorporate texts to describe the flow, it can become confusing for the audience. So, why not use animation to clearly depict the follow. You can use a combination of motion path animation and custom shows to do this.
Again, when you deal with report, there are many complex data analysis that may not fit in its entirety on a slide. Their representation can be shown by linking it through MS Excel, MS Word, etc.
REASON #3: USE OF GRAPHICS, CHART, AND ANIMATION SIMPLIFIED
Simplify your work. With preconfigured templates, adding graphics and charts becomes much simpler. Just point, click and edit the data. Chart representation format and style using the “Design” tab.
For example:
Let’s suppose you have conducted a survey on how comfortable professionals are using PowerPoint Presentations. Out of the total respondents, 10% didn’t know how to work with PowerPoint Presentations, 35% were still learning to use it, 25% could work with it and 20% were proficient while the remaining 10% were experts working with PowerPoint Presentations.
You could display this information as bullets points too. But using graphical representation as shown in the figure creates better impact and lends more clarity to your data. Moreover, it’s preconfigured into the template making it just a matter of entering the data.
REASON #4: ABILITY TO SHOWCASE INFORMATION IN A CONCISE MANNER
The attention span of a person is very short. You can hold someone attention without lapse for a maximum of 15 – 20 minutes. You’ve got to capture the attention of your audience and then keep them on track and focussed. Now, a whole lot of text or description isn’t going to hold their interest.
People like to know, “What’s the point you’re getting at?”
Presentation of information needs to be succinct and cater to their interest. So, how does using templates help you? The free ppt templates, especially those available at our online store, have been designed to address this need. Text block and image placers have been placed with a view to optimizing space usage and avoid information cramming.
REASON #5: OPPORTUNITY TO SHOWCASE YOUR EXPERTISE AND COMPETENCE
“Great Presentation!” A “Pat on the back” or clinching a “good business deal”. That’s what carefully planned presentations can do for you.
Some people believe PowerPoint Presentations are overrated. But the fact is, in today’s business world you just can’t do without them. With hordes of bad presentations that leave the audience confused and jumping from slide to slide for information, you can be different. Remember also to back up your presentation with hard facts and knowledge of what you’re presenting to your audience.
Good presentations speak of your professional caliber and skills. Make your mark; make your presentation stand out. Once your PowerPoint skills are proven and delivered, you will be in high demand among your colleagues and business circle.
Work smart; use PowerPoint templates for your corporate presentations.