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3rd May 2019

What makes a good presentation?

What constitutes a good presentation?

Everyone will have their own specific likes and dislikes, but common responses to this question include:

Interesting content
Useful content
Entertaining or engaging
Relevant to me
Easy voice to listen to
Confident presenter
Good stage presence
Great slides
No slides
Short/succinct – no padding

Ask people what constitutes a bad presentation and the list can go on for days, but the responses that tend to top the list include:

Dull
Not relevant
Too long
Death by PowerPoint
Nervous presenter
No structure, hard to follow
No obvious takeaways
Starts with an apology – and goes downhill from there

What’s interesting is that the first list is predominantly about the audience and what they wanted to get out of it: ‘I found it useful’, ‘I found it relevant’, ‘I liked the slides’. The ‘bad’ list, however, errs more towards the presenter and their material or style: dull, nervous, no takeaways and so on.