By Jim Endicott, Owner/Manager of Distinction Communication, Inc.
Note: Jim Endicott is a nationally-recognized executive coach, author, and speaker specializing in professional presentation messaging, design, and delivery. Jim was an award-winning columnist for “Presentations” magazine and has written for Business Week, Consulting and Selling Power. He is the co-author of The Presentation Survival Skills […]
It’s the age-old question of presenters everywhere: “Which PowerPoint slide design should I use?”
I know the feeling so well of booting PowerPoint and looking through the same old 15 tired slide designs that everyone uses, knowing full well that I would only consider using three of them.
So when the PowerPoint team set off to create […]
I am often asked how can you make PowerPoint interactive when presenting to a large audience of students. My standard answer is either don’t use PowerPoint for the whole session, or if you absolutely have to, then set the students a question, challenge, exercise etc either to do individually, in pairs or larger groups. If […]
One of the most prevalent uses of digital imagery is in PowerPoint Presentations. PowerPoint has become the most used slide show program fror teaching and training and most everyone in science will have to use it at some point. Inserting digital images and movies into PowerPoint is easy, but care must be taken to optimize […]
Bullying Presentation
I used to hate doing PowerPoint presentations. The ones I saw had way too many words on them, were boring, and were a pain to read. That was less than a year ago. Today, thanks to Garr Reynolds of www.garrreynolds.com and his blog, Presentation Zen, I’m able to prepare and present a much more […]