Presentationism

It is possible to create such a simple business presentation for your business meetings when you need to discuss important issues to your boss, clients and your subordinates? One-line presentations on your slides are indeed too short for elaborating your points to your audiences.

The one-line powerpoint presentation.

This applies the concept – “When less is more”.

This concept has been fully utilized in advertisements and music videos in order to grasp the audiences’ attention in which slices the large chunk of information into small parts (fragments) of important messages by eliminating unnecessary and redundant points that could affect your audiences’ attention.

The presenter will be able to use his creativity on elaborating his slides in which it is much a challenging than presenting multiple slides with superfluous point within one slide. In productivity wise, you will spend less time and effort in making slides as your slides required minimal text-contents and more images to optimize your performance on your big day.

Step 1: Gather all the information for your current business topic/theme

This information can be taken from company annual reports and documents, whereas external information is from websites – Wall Street Journals, Business Times, financial blogs and other related readable resources. This information can be in form of texts, pictures, charts and graphs. Gather all of it as much as possible within given period of time.

Step 2: Elimination of unnecessary and redundant points

Accentuate on the most important part of information by eliminating long-winded facts. Summarize lengthy points as short as possible. You can use relevant pictures to support your truncated messages as it enhances the delivering of the messages process to your audiences. In the beginning, elimination process might take a long time to be accomplished but it will be much faster when you are able to identify the objectives of your presentation based on the information that you have compiled earlier.

Step 3: Place your one-line point on proper slide layout

As usual, your slide layout is important to display your one-line point so that it is visible to your audiences. It must be clear and simple in which your audiences able to perceive your messages efficiently within short period of time. Fonts for your one-line point has to be suitable – it is preferable to use Arial or Century Gothic fonts due to its letterforms and the spacing between characters that able to make it more readable on screen and at various resolutions.

Examples of one-line presentation slides (click the thumbnails to enlarge):

It is optional to use additional effects for your slides. For example, you can use the “Entrance effects” on how you want your one-line point to be appeared on your slide. For optimal slide enhancement, transition effects are used to create a smooth change of one slide to the other.