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There is just one primal principle you need to acquire, to draw an effective diagram in PowerPoint. The principle is then important that it is worth highlighting and putting information technology in a box. Here is the golden principle:

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You'll understand the principle hands with this …

Simple example of creating a diagram…

Permit'south begin with a question:

How do you make an earthen pot?

Nosotros guess, your answer was…

"Have some dirt. Add some h2o. Mould information technology into the shape of a pot."

Now, let's remove all the unnecessary words from the higher up and accept just the keywords to make the sentence. Here is the result…

Congrats! Yous made the skeletal frame for a diagram.

OK. Let us do an action replay frame by frame to understand what you did only now:

First, y'all read the sentence: Have some clay. Add together some h2o. Mould it into the shape of a pot.

Then, you mentally identified the key components of the sentence:

Take some clay. Add some water. Mould it into the shape of a pot.

Then, you lot wrote information technology as follows:

Take a moment to observe these primal words (which are highlighted in assuming and colors) closely:

"Take some clay. Add some water. Mould it into the shape of a pot."

They tin can be classified as components (highlighted in red) and the activity between the components (highlighted in green).

Nosotros call these components as Objects and the action between the components equally Relationship.

If you lot just capture this uncomplicated skeletal frame on a slice of paper or a flipchart, and explicate it with words, your communication volition exist much clearer than just saying the words.

You lot tin can take it to the next level by…

Visualizing the objects:

All we are going to practice now is to put a rough image to represent the words in the example above. Here is the result:

The pictures make it easier for anyone to grasp the idea. This pace also allows y'all to create visual slides in PowerPoint.

To quickly review what we mentioned just a while dorsum:

These rounded rectangles correspond the objects in the idea.

These circles in dotted line highlight the relationships:

To conclude…

No affair how grand or complex your thought is, the underlying principle to correspond it in diagrams, remains the same. But, the challenge is in identifying the objects correctly, and finding means to represent the relationships accurately.

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