Most presentations would be better without slides.
Because most slides compete against the presenter instead of supporting them.
I know what it’s like. A presentation is looming and you leave it late to create slides. And when you do finally open PowerPoint you do the obvious thing: you create slide after slide of bullet points.
If you’re short on time, skip the slides.
Those rushed slides are bad slides. They are bullet-heavy, text-dense, and hard to follow.
They don’t help your audience understand your message because they can’t read and listen at the same time. Both tasks use the same part of the brain. If you give your audience something to read, they’ll stop listening until they’ve finished reading.
That means your spoken words are tuned out just so they can skim a bullet list instead. You might as well not be there.
Most professionals know their subject well enough to speak clearly for 5 or 10 minutes without visual aids. And if you did that the audience would stay with you.
If you don’t have time to make good slides, don’t make any. Just talk. Your audience will listen and remember what you said.