How to use flipcharts to enhance your message?

Flipcharts facilitate unrehearsed interactions with the audience and demonstrate your authenticity. Here’re 3 considerations:

1. Visibility is the #1 consideration. Visibility works best for a smaller group (20 max) and a boardroom style meeting room. If onstage, use flipcharts to highlight a graphic or a large font vocabulary.
2. Write in bullet point style (complete sentences are harder to read or write legibly and quickly). If you knew you’d be using something like an idea tree to organize the information, you could save time by having an outline pre-printed/pre-drawn.
3. Test all the markers! You’d be surprised how often they streak or just don’t work. Most flipcharts these days use heavy weight paper so they shouldn’t “bleed”, but when in doubt, skip every other page.

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