Effective PowerPoint presentations that appropriately represent your organization should have the following:

    * The presentation should be consistently designed (Timesaver: templates)
    * Choose a color palette that goes with your company’s other marketing collaterals.
    * Use clean and simple graphics/charts
    * No more than 6 words per slide
    * Use pictures that reinforces your words

A good rule for effective presentations is to avoid mixing reading and listening. If your audience is reading the points on the screen, they are simultaneously not listening to you, and vice-versa. It is a very inefficient way of getting your message across. After all, your goal is to make sure they leave the room with YOUR point of view.  Tobias Schelle