Powerful Presentations: The Secret Sauce

Abhijith Vinod
2 min readAug 28, 2024

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Presentations are dynamic these days. The most challenging step in drafting a professional presentation is knowing where to start!

It’s common for professionals to jump straight onto their computers and start creating content-rich slide decks immediately, especially when hit with a strenuous timeline.

If you think it through, creating a concise plan would help you save time in the long run — as you would dive deep into alternate approaches, unlocking hidden elements that will ultimately refine your presentation effectively to be well thought-out and designed for your audience.

A simplified breakdown of presentation planning contains seven crucial steps:

🎯 Understand your task: Know what you will present. It includes performing extensive research on the topic.

🎯Establish your audience: Customize tone and content based on the review panel.

🎯 Decide your format: Be flexible to include audience engagement, storytelling, or other communication methods that create efficiency in delivery.

🎯 Identify insights: Create messages that carefully establish your arguments.

🎯 Write your presentation: Create an outline of the contents you would include in the structure.

🎯 Design visual aids: Visual aids may appear in the form of charts, diagrams, or pictures

🎯 Practice: Do a set of mock presentations — the more precise your presentation, the more confident you’ll be when you deliver it.

Therefore, creating an effective presentation isn’t just a deck of well-designed slides. A flavor of perfect planning and implementation, if added to it, works like a charm every time!

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Abhijith Vinod
Abhijith Vinod

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