While creating presentations is such a common task, we see even the most well-oiled teams struggle to put together effective presentations in an efficient and straightforward manner. Find out how to structure your process to keep momentum going and play to everyone's strengths.
An organised process will take the hassle and uncertainty out of the team's presentations.
From a project management perspective presentations can be quite challenging. There are many moving parts including generating ideas, conducting research, managing stakeholders, designing slides and, of course, meeting deadlines. Now add the dynamics of (corporate) teamwork to the mix and you end up with a mix of numerous repetitions and last-minute changes.
A lot of stress can be avoided by adopting a standardised process for creating presentations that will do away with the uncertainty and reduce stressful revisions towards the deadline.
Stay on track and know what's next
Focussing on your concept first eliminates the need to make big time-consuming changes to your slides later on.
It is common practise to fire up your slide program when you need to work on your next presentation. After all, you will need slides for the presentation. However, this will be a massive time sink. As with any process that requires the creation and improvement of ideas, creating presentations is an iterative process.
Especially in the early stages of a presentation it is necessary to revise ideas and let go of old ones. The process of creating presentations is iterative by nature and you want to iterate on ideas, not on slides.
Working with slides too early will cost you a lot of time, because you will be sidetracked by irrelevant details. You might spend on the project, but you are not improving the quality of your presentation.
These resources are better for developing content than editing slides will ever be.
Figure out your audience.
Our step-by-step workflow helps you focus on what matters most: your audience and your goals.
Equipping your team with design skills and assets makes sure your ideas don't fail upon delivery.
When it comes to designing effective visuals, we see a lot of teams struggle even though they might be great visual thinkers otherwise or have experience in the creation of visual products. Presentation design is a very niche capability and let's face it, the major slide programs are not exactly great even for people with a good grasp on design.
Depending on the volume and importance of your team's presentations it makes sense to take a good look at the quality of visuals your team is currently producing. If you find that your team is either losing too much time tinkering with slides or the quality is not matching the presentation's stakes, then you can start looking for ways to either develop design skills and/or investing in templates and libraries that eliminate your reliance on your team's design skills.
Improve your team's presentation workflow by setting up a shared process, putting concepts first and giving your team the design tools they need.
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