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Creating good presentation slides will help your ideas to be able to be delivered with ease. A good slide is not a complicated or detailed slide, but it is a slide that is concise, simple and right on target.

Many people make mistakes when making slides. They make the slides not as a presentation tool, but as a full text to be read.

The followings are the lists of the fatal errors in creating presentation slides:

1. Too small font

Using too small font makes the audience cannot read your slide. Therefore, make sure that your slides can be read from the farthest distance of the audience who will attend your presentation. The general rule that you can use is a maximum of seven lines of text in one slide with the font size around 32 points.

2. Using capital

Capital letters are usually used for the slide title or header. However, the capital letters that are used on the entire text will make your presentation looks not professional. Using capital letters like this will be a disturbance because the letters are difficult to read and you look anger to audience.

3. Types of fonts that are too many and fancy

Using types of fonts that are too many and fancy will distract the audience attention. Use a maximum of three fonts in your presentation and be consistent in each slide. This will allow the audience to recognize the way you present the information.

4. Star Wars animation

PowerPoint presents animation functions that seem interesting, but if you use it not in place, this animation would be disturbing. This animation starts from the transition between slides and animations that appear in the text or images. Use simple animations such as Appear or Fade to keep your presentation look professional.

5. 4D theater sound effects

Have you ever listened to a presentation where every single line of text appears, then you heard the sound of applause or the barrage of bullets? Avoid using unnecessary sound effects. Just use sound only when you need it to explain something. You should remember that you are giving a presentation, not a music concert.

6. Rainbow colors

Colors are a beauty. However, when they are not used in their place, they will make the eyes tired. Do not use too many colors in one slide. Choose 3-4 main colors and use consistently in your slides.

7. Too many texts

Slide of presentation is not a paper. Do not list all the texts into your presentation. This means you tell your audience to read the text and not have to listen to you anymore because everything is written. Choose only the keywords that can be a tool and create a powerful presentation.

8. Too light or too dark background

Do not use a background that is too light or too dark. Use enough contrast so that the text can be easily readable. At the same time, you can give emphasis to a particular text. Some experts suggest a dark blue background with white text or yellow. But, you can also use a white background or other bright colors. Do not forget to test your presentation using a projector that will be used later on and make sure the colors in accordance with enough contrast.

You set the stage for any negotiation with information. That’s called positioning. The way you present that information, and its content, shape the persona the other negotiator has of your negotiation power, resources, and abilities. #Disinformation plays a vital role in shaping that persona – using it strategically can help you negotiate better.

Disinformation is used in planning wars, corporate espionage, and in the planning stages of negotiations. Think for a moment about the term #FakeNews. What comes to mind? That phrase has become a form of disinformation.

The following is how you can use disinformation to improve your negotiation efforts.

Creating a Disinformation Campaign:

To create disinformation campaigns, start by disseminating information in small cycles first – you want the target to become familiar with it. That’ll make him more susceptible to believing it and the information that follows. Over time, expand it, its believability to the truth, and its cycles. To have the greatest effect on the target, have information disseminated in places that they frequent (e.g. social media post, news outlets, radio, etc.). Doing so will impact their belief as to the validity of the information (i.e. I see/hear it everywhere – so it must be true).

Psychology of Disinformation:

For disinformation to be viable, tie it loosely to the beliefs of your target. People become swayed more easily if they have a preconceived belief about something they accept as already being truthful. So, if you associate your disinformation with their currently held beliefs, they’ll accept your information more readily. The trick is to make your information just within the outer realms of their beliefs. That’s the setup to having them stretch their beliefs as you later present insights further outside of it. Your efforts should become geared to having them expand their beliefs to the point of easily accepting the new insights you present as the truth.

Combating Disinformation:

As you know or may have discovered, disinformation is a powerful mental tool. Thus, while employing it, you must be mindful about its deployment against you.

To improve your plight when disinformation is used against you, ask yourself the following questions.

1. Consider the originating source of the information. Ask yourself, what belief is this information attempting to form in my mind or in the mind of my supporters?
2. How was the information delivered? Did it arrive through a source that has proven to be believable in the past? Is that source being manipulated?
3. What new paradigms is this information attempting to create and who benefits from it?
4. To what degree are others attempting to alter my perception for the benefit of who they’re serving?
5. What happens if I ignore the information?

Posing such questions to yourself and your confidants will help you evaluate the information and its potential validity. I’m not suggesting you become paranoid. What I’m suggesting is you not readily accept information at face value as the truth. There are too many ways to get disinformation into today’s environment. Guard the door that keeps it away from you.

Disinformation is used in all realms of negotiation. And, there is a multitude of ways that it’s used. Therefore, the better you become at utilizing it, and knowing how to thwart its use against you, the better you’ll become as a negotiator… and everything will be right with the world.

Remember, you’re always negotiating!

The day I got the breast cancer diagnosis call on the telephone, it seemed that time stood still. My mind wasn’t wandering; it was specifically locked on to the subject of cancer, treatment and potential bilateral mastectomy. Ugh.

More than ten years later, I am happy to say that there have been many other moments when time seemingly stood still and many of them delicious, positive and uplifting. That’s what I want you to read now; the reminder about the awesome one at a time moments you can experience when you are willing to pay attention to one moment at a time. (For me, this very morning, it was a tiny bird gently lighting upon the branch touching my bedroom window and providing me a gentile wake up tweet.)

The gift of medical treatment is that it provides many moments of opportunities to be in the now. Initially it’s waiting rooms, doctor’s offices, and hospital sitting areas. After treatment, the spectrum is wider and filled with beautiful ‘back to normal’ moments. That’s where we’re going with this.

One of the best post-treatment, creative habits I suggest is pausing or slowing down the rhythm of life long enough to experience, really experience one moment at a time. There’s healing in experiencing the wonder that is all around. I even enjoy my walks more now that I’ve made it a habit to stop each time I cross paths with a dog. Making contact with those brown eyes and the experience of that wagging tail are uplifting components of my day and assets to being in the moment.

One of the best bonuses of this behavior is it gets me out of my ever productive thinking space into the realness of right now. Enough of that thinking, wandering mind and into the moment. I recommend present moment awareness highly. There is so much to be appreciated when we’re just in the moment.

A caution here about dwelling on cancer or the negative ramifications of ‘if only’ thinking. Using thoughts to scare myself is no longer so common as it used to be (although now and then I catch myself in this old, bad habit). Now that I know I can shift the focus to what’s in front of me right now, my life is more peace-filled and that’s what I want for you. Post treatment life can be filled with real delights (as opposed to the imagined fears/thoughts/feelings when thinking takes me or you out of the moment).

The best ticket into the present moment is your conscious breath. It’s easy to do. Just go where you won’t hear the telephone and take 3 deep, conscious breaths. After that, observe what is right there in front of you and appreciate what is right. It’s that simple! (If you notice something that needs cleaning, or tidying or changing, postpone that til later; this is for focus on what’s right.) And, the truth is, the after treatment possibilities are endless one moment at a time.