How to Prepare a Presentation

Before you create a presentation, you should ask yourself, “What am I trying to accomplish?” Most people are trying to transform their idea into reality – it could be that their prospect needs to embrace this new technology or that they need to adopt a best practice that they’ve seen work in a similar facility across town. Whatever your goal may be, don't start with PowerPoint. A lot of people say, “Oh, I've got a presentation tomorrow, let me just open up PowerPoint and start typing.” If you do that, the presentation may wind up looking like stream-of-consciousness journalism.