Simple visual aids can serve as your notes when speaking. Carefully select your titles. These titles alone can serve as "triggers" to what you want to say next. If you know your subject well and have rehearsed your presentation, your visual aids should be all you need to "jog" your memory. If you forget something that's okay; the audience would never know.

Using visual aids has 4 important advantages

Your visual aids don't have to be only word charts; they can include diagrams, pictures and graphs.

NOTE: When you use visual aids, always introduce your visual aid before you actually show the visual aid. Rehearse your presentation with your actual visual aids. It is very important that you are very familiar with your visual aids. Make sure your message and visual aids match. There is nothing worse than showing a visual aid which does not go along with what you are saying.

Practice using different transition phrases. For example: "Now that we have seen the ... let's look at ..."

My next point deals with ....