Variety is the spice of life, and your PowerPoint Presentation

Variety is the spice of life. Life is boring and dull when you do the same thing, day after day after day. We need to take vacations, travel to foreign lands and explore new frontiers to fully live our lives.

In the same way, your audience benefits when you add variety to your presentation. We have all been over-exposed to the traditional PowerPoint Presentation Style - often referred to as "Death by PowerPoint". This style is played out by the presenter turning his or her back on the audience and then proceeding to read every word from text-laden slides to his or her snoozing audience.

However, every presenter can spice up a presentation with the following simple and easy strategies.
1. When you use text, use GIANT size text. Don't be scared to stand out. Use 80 point font.
2. Use black slides occasionally to completely change the pace of your presentation. Make a point and tell a personal story when the black slide comes up.
3. Use simple and clean graphs to highlight the important point that you want to make at any time. Make sure your graphs clearly indicate the point you want to make.
4. Then, of course, use Photographs liberally. (I surely don't need to expand on this strategy for readers of this blog, do I?)

These four strategies will add variety to your next presentation and you will be remembered as the presenter with SPICE.