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Developing Project Presentations

The document provides guidance on developing effective project status presentations for management. It recommends evaluating the audience first to tailor the appropriate level of detail. A standard background should be designed to keep the presentation consistent while engaging the audience. Slide layouts should be created, including title, bullet list, fonts and logos. An appropriate number of slides needs to be determined based on the expected presentation length and content. Thorough practice is important to ensure a polished, timed delivery that is familiar to the presenter. Corporate standards should be followed where applicable.

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Developing Project Presentations

The document provides guidance on developing effective project status presentations for management. It recommends evaluating the audience first to tailor the appropriate level of detail. A standard background should be designed to keep the presentation consistent while engaging the audience. Slide layouts should be created, including title, bullet list, fonts and logos. An appropriate number of slides needs to be determined based on the expected presentation length and content. Thorough practice is important to ensure a polished, timed delivery that is familiar to the presenter. Corporate standards should be followed where applicable.

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Developing Project

Presentations
What goes into making a quality
project status presentation
suitable for management

When to Give a Presentation


Project status meetings
At the request of any of the following:
Management
Project steering committee
Board of directors
Stakeholders
Clients

Evaluate the Audience First


Evaluate the audience for your
presentation.
The more diverse the background of your
audience, the more general your presentation
will be.
Make your presentation entertaining as well
as informative to capture and keep their
interest.

Design a Standard Background


To make your presentation consistent,
design a standard background.
Avoid the backgrounds that come with your
presentation software. Everyones seen them
at least three times.
Develop a tasteful custom background that
will emphasize your project and keep your
audiences attention. (Just be sure to adhere
to corporate presentation standards while
doing so!)

Design Your Slide Layouts


What youll need to design your slide layouts:

Title slide layout


Billet list slide layout
Typeface color and size
Special formats
Logos

Make your changes within the master slide


function to keep the look consistent throughout
the entire presentation.

How Many Slides?


Before creating actual slides with content,
think about how many slides youll need.
Keep in mind, it takes two to five minutes to
present each slide. (For an hour-long
presentation, that means 12-30 slides,
depending on how fast you talk.)
Knowing how many slides youll need and
how long it will take to present them will allow
you to focus on the detail of content.

Practice the Presentation


After you have fleshed out the slides with
content, you need to practice your delivery
of the presentation.
You need to make sure that your presentation
will not exceed the time allotted to it.
You need to practice a polished delivery.
You need to become intimately familiar with
the content and order of your slides.
Rearrange and reorder your presentation until your
delivery is smooth and perfect.

General Tips
If you have a corporate logo, put this on your
slide background.
If you have a project logo or slogan, this could
also be placed on the slide background.
If you have corporate standards to follow for
presentations, follow them.
Many companies insist upon standard backgrounds,
fonts, colors, logo sizes, screen layouts, etc.

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