HR Has To Do a Lot of Presentations. Here Are Some Design Rules You Should Know.

Posted on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 by Frank Roche

We’ve all seen hundreds of PowerPoint presentations. How many of them were good is another thing. Want to know why? Because not everyone with a pen is a communicator. There are communication principles that go beyond the sophomore English class “qualification” that many people with red pens bring to editing. Yep, there’s more to know, folks, than subject-verb-predicate construction. The same goes for designing PowerPoint presentations.

The 20 Golden Rules of Great Design is well worth reading. Want to be a better communicator? Read the article and follow a few of these rules:

  • Create a concept.
  • Communicate, don’t decorate.
  • If you can do it with less, then do it.

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User Comments

  1. Scott McArthur

    Dec 8th, 2007

    Link isn’t working for me Frank – I’m in the middle of some work on this subject and would REALLY like to read this!

  2. Frank Roche

    Dec 9th, 2007

    Scott, gosh, now I can’t find it on their site. Strange. I’ll keep hunting and get a proper link up there.

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