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The  presentation reviewed was over a new air conditioning system:

Your 10-point fast-acting cure

1. Your title is too cold. Be more specific. A couple of suggestions: "Why our new airco system engineering outpaces competition". Or "5 reasons why "X" has reinvented airco". Or "Innovating airco concept that embraces customer expectations".

2. Your template should be adapted for better contrast. If impossible because your template is company standard, improve contrasts by selecting white colours only on your dark background.

3. Your structure is wild. It needs drastic and profound improvement. Start on paper or on a simple slide with the four key points of your presentation. Insert the agenda at the beginning. Reorganize your slides accordingly.

4. A 40-slide heavy presentation with few illustrations, no graphs, and too much text like slides 10, 13, 24 to name a few: either your audience has had a shot of amphetamine beforehand or they will fall asleep for sure. Re-du-ce and keep the essentials! See my example on how to metamorphose slide 10 (see slide cure #1).

5. Bring oxygen into your presentation. Have from time to time a full page with a picture that relates to your contents. For instance, you could introduce each agenda part with a picture. Pay attention to copyright if your slides are publicized.

6. You insist on the features of your new airco system engineering. I would emphasize customer benefits. But you were not specific about your target audience. Anyhow it's a weak part. Any friendly contact in your division with a practice-oriented marketer or a successful sales representative that could give you a hand to focus more on competitive advantages?

7. Your two spreadsheet tables are not bad, although not well contrasted and with too little use of colours. However, the second one should be replaced by a pie chart, as you only have 5 lines. See my example of an alternative to slide 32 (see slide cure #2).

8. I would kill all slide transition effects. But you should have in the slides themselves a bit of animation, that makes sense. Use the appear function, with a few groups of items (see slide cure #3).

9. There should be a logical progression in your presentation. See point 2. It should logically and gently bring your audience to the conclusion. There is none. It should be powerful and memorable.

10. Your conclusion should be connected with the title of your presentation. A suggestion: "Why our new airco system engineering outpaces competition", followed by 4 or 5 striking facts and figures. See my example (see slide cure #4).

 

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