from "knockout presentations"

1. memorize concepts rather than the slides
2. There are three parts to any speech: tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and tell them what you just told them. This translates into an opening, a body, and a closing. Try a startling statement or statistic, a surprising action, a quote, a story, a rhetorical question, a personal experience, a visual aid, or humor. Or begin with your ending.
3. Color creates associations in the minds of your audience members:
Red simulates emotion. Passion, desire, competition, danger, stop, error, downturn
Green inspires involvement or interaction. Social, intelligent, open, growth, money, readiness, spring, new beginnings.
Gray communicates a lack of commitment or neutrality.
Blue is a calm, conservative color. Trust, stability, loyalty, tradition.
Yello is associated with cheerfulness and hope for the fugure.
Purple has a mystical quality. Fun, humorous, or light topics
Brown is perceived as passive, searching for something solid. Unstable and less credible
Black signifies power and sophistication. Removes emotion