Archive for the 'Presentations Planning' Category

Why Do You Want to Use PowerPoint?

Presenting information as you might have done with OHTs in the old days
Supporting a speech or lecture – bullet points reminding you of what to say
Displaying images in a big way
A slide show (literally)
A simple way to create graphics

Getting started

Plan what you want to put on the slides (which will be different to, and much […]

5 Powerful Hacks to Immediately Improve Your Presentations

“It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.”
- Wayne Burgraff
Note: This guest post was written by personal development blogger Scott Young. You can check out his website here.
Communication is a skill. That means if you want to blow the interviewer away, knock them out with your slide show or have them […]

7 Presentation Tips for Making a Presentation That Makes the Sale

The quality of your sales presentation will often determine whether a prospect buys from you or one of your competitors. However, most presentations lack pizzazz and are seldom compelling enough to motivate the other person to make a buying decision. These seven presentation tips will help you create a presentation that will motivate buyers.
1. Make […]

How to Write a Presentation Abstract

As all of you know, Calgary Code Camp is tomorrow, and most of you know that Edmonton’s own Steven Rockarts will be presenting on Windsor Container.  What most of you *don’t* know is that Rockarts asked me to “sex up” his presentation abstract before he submitted it.  I ended up writing several different versions of […]

Seth Godin’s Worst PPT Ever

Seth Godin has a posting on what he claims to be the worst PowerPoint ever.  I’ve seen quite a few really bad PowerPoint slides over the years as a teacher, trainer, presenter and PowerPoint expert, so can see that this one falls well within the pool of “bad” slides.  However, while I agree that this […]