Garr Reynolds was one of Steve Jobs' presentation trainers. On his book Presentation Zen, he introduces the term presdoc. A presdoc is a hybrid between a presentation and a text document that serves neither…
Take the time to spell check your slides. Watch out especially for words that won’t be caught by Microsoft spell checker but are used incorrectly in a sentence. Here are…
From the moment you step on stage, your audience will make an assessment of you and then look for evidence to confirm their first impressions. This subconscious phenomena is called…
Take your time and think: is your presentation really intended for your listeners or it’s just a set of slides?
Ask yourself the important questions to help you understand. Why is this presentation important? What are you going to tell your audience that they don’t already know?
Audience members with cell phones can disrupt a presentation in several ways. Ringing phones annoy everyone, and the audience member who answers a ringing phone can ruin your presentation.
All training involves persuasion; my trainer clients taught me that, telling me in no uncertain terms that they need to persuade their trainees to pay attention and implement their training
While I initially thought they were unrealistic, like cartoons, and hence immature and unprofessional, I have now started including them on a regular basis in my storyboards. So what did…
Most of the changes I make to the presentation templates are usually subtle in visual terms, but can save major headaches during the creation and presentation phases
How to make your data readable, how to improve the readability of your graphs and charts: that is the questions!
Here you will find easy instructions to add a simple countdown timer to PowerPoint
Nearly 43% of those surveyed said that more than half of the presentations they see suffer from one or more of the following top five PowerPoint misuses.
