So you’ve finished your Business PowerPoint presentation. Everyone’s enjoyed what you’ve had to say - and it’s now time for questions.

“Would you mind going back to the slide with the pretty graph on” a member of the audience asks.

So you hit escape, reveal the photo of your daughter with jam on her face on your desktop, amongst the 35 other icons of stuff, including a link to one of your audience’s competitors who you’re pitching to later in the day…

How about you get organised and professional!?

Step 1

Always end you presentation with a Q&A / Thank you slide - as opposed to you being surprised it was the last slide.

Step 2

Always ensure that you have a print out of handouts with you.

Step3

When someone asks you to go back to a particular slide - you will still be in “Full Screen mode” because you are on your holding last slide. Refer to your hand out to see which slide number you need to go to and then…

Type the slide number on the keyboard followed by “Enter” and PowerPoint will automatically jump to that slide.

If you want to divert the audience’s attention away from the screen to focus on you… either press “W” for a blank white screen or (surprise, surprise) “B” for a blank black screen.

Genius!