For those conflict resolution professionals who give presentations and trainings, I thought this would be of interest:

We’ve boiled down all of our advice about visual aids to ten golden rules – follow these and you’ll always have your audience’s attention for the right reason.

1

Do the slides only after you’ve completed your presentation plan and storyboard or you’ll have an overlong, text driven, linear presentation that will lead to dull, text driven slides.

2

If you’re working from an existing PowerPoint presentation, use that as your storyboard and add story structure, edit ruthlessly and remove visual, verbal and text clutter.

3

Use pictures and diagrams before words, and use words as little as possible. Use a short word instead of a long word wherever you can. Use only nouns, verbs and key phrases on your slides.

4

Do your best to stick to 3 words per bullet and 3 bullet-points per slide.

Read the full list from Jim-Harvey.com [HERE].