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Although your material is limited for your 5-minute presentation, you will still need to do enough research to understand your topic and extract the essence of your talk. Keep it simple. Once you have the materials, narrow down your topic to one core concept. As stated by Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die state, 'How do we find the essential core of our ideas? To strip an idea down to its core, we must be masters of exclusion.' It's all about just one idea. Practice, practice, practice. Rehearsal is critical for a such a short presentation.
PowerPoint is the presentation software of the Microsoft Office software suite. One of the most widely used office programs, PowerPoint has applications for personal use, academics and business. It is highly customizable; you can edit PowerPoint presentations to be as personal or professional as you want.
You have no time to pause or collect your thoughts. To engage your listeners, you will need to be smooth and steady, not bumbling. Lead with wow. During a 5-minute presentation, you have little time to build a case or draw your audience in. The best approach is to lead with a compelling or controversial position.
Make them think right of the bat. A presentation full of facts, figures and statistics will quickly lose your audience. One stat may be fine to reinforce a point. But if you want to create a memorable presentation tell a memorable story.