The Best Things I Learned in Training: (Don't do you) Planning in PowerPoint

Don't build your presentation in PowerPoint until you have met most (preferably all of) the following criteria

• You are clear on who the audience is

• What they are hoping to learn from the presentation

• What is the current level of knowledge / gaps in the audience

• How much time you have

• How interactive / directive the meeting needs to be

• What you want them to know at the end of the presentation

• How you / the audience will measure success

With the above in mind then get a pen and paper and write out a bullet list of each section and then sub bullet what points you want to make

THEN you can open PowerPoint and start to build your presentation