After you’ve written an engaging keynote, it’s tempting to repeat your words on the supporting slides — perhaps the audience will read along and be more likely to remember your messages. However, according to Harvard Business Review, your audience should be able to comprehend each slide in about three seconds.

It may seem impossible to distill your words down to that level or communicate with a single graphic. Consider us your hands-on practice audience. Let us determine what elements deserve the slide treatment, how they should look, and how frequently they should appear. The samples below were taken from a CEO’s conference presentation where we did just that.