![]() Or you can simply go in for any business image showing professionals engaged in a brainstorming session, a wall clock showing time is of essence, a busy business desk etc. If you are presenting in a conference hall to hundreds or thousands in audience, the stage or the audience can be a good background image. If you are presenting in a boardroom, the meeting table can be a good idea. Step 1: Cover the slide with striking visualįor an agenda slide, choose a visual that means serious business. Interested in knowing how we transformed the above slide in a matter of just 5 minutes? Let us show you step by step how to go about designing that slide:Īlso Read: 7 Best Marketing PowerPoint Templates Suggested By Top Marketers Here’s a re-designed agenda slide that you can create in a few minutes for your upcoming presentation: Most presenters, for lack of ideas or other reasons, will tend to leave their agenda slide completely naked, except listing out the 6 items as bullet points! It’s bad priming: audience are only being predisposed to expect boring, ugly slides from there onwards.Ĭonversely, if you create an eye-catchy agenda slide, you’ll succeed in wetting their mental appetite. Say you have 6 main areas that you’ll be covering. So, ALWAYS include only the most important sections of the presentation in your agenda slide. ![]() You might have had great insights to share with your listeners but you scared them with “information overload”. If this part, however, is botched up with a chaotic slide that has way too many sections and subsections, you have lost your audience even before you could introduce yourself. It also gives a structure to your talk, which otherwise can become a rambling affair. It’s like a little warm-up exercise for the audience. So when you advance to further segments in your talk, the audience recall that it was second, third or fourth on your agenda list.īut first ask yourself- Do I really need an agenda slide in my presentation? Well yes, if you are presenting at a conference with many topics to cover, it’s advisable as well as expected that the audience have a little idea beforehand of what key areas you are going to throw light on. It positively primes your audience as to what they would be getting out of your talk- the key takeaways. Why are we talking about priming here? Your agenda slide serves the same purpose in your presentation. Have you heard of the word Priming ? More popularly used in psychology, it “refers to an increased sensitivity to certain stimuli due to prior experience.” After watching a scary movie alone at night, you become more sensitive and thus primed to slightest noises around you like creak of the bed and rustling of leaves outside the window!
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