There are only 3 things you need to get right to do an awesome presentation. PowerPoint is not one of them. Watch now:
Archives for May 2016
The Great Presentation Skills Scam
Here’s the issue with slide design books and courses: Unless your delivery is good, it’s like putting lipstick on a pig. No amount of slide dressing will help a bad delivery. PowerPoint is not the problem. Truth is, you may believe that better PowerPoint is the fix. That by creating better slides your presentations will be […]
Engaging Presentations Use Stories: Watch Now
A sign of how well your presentation will do is how engaged your audience are in the first 30 seconds. Let’s face it though: it’s hard to get your audience interested in dry business topics. So what can you do? Use analogies and stories to draw your audience into your presentation. A famous quote in sales copywriting is: Features […]
Good Presentation Design: The Secrets
Here is the main thing you need to know about good presentation design: You are the presentation. Good presentation design is not about throwing together a whole load of slides with perfect graphics. Good design comes from realizing that you are the center of the presentation and the slides are just there to support you. […]
Effective Presentations Have Three Important Elements
It’s the Monday morning team meeting… Your boss breaks the news that you need to give a presentation on Friday morning about your current project. Panic sets in; you hate doing presentations. You’ve never enjoyed presenting and you know that no one really wants to sit there and listen to you bang on about any […]
How to Add Impact to Your Presentation Slides
Have you ever delivered a good news presentation and found your audience was underwhelmed? You expected an elated reaction from them and got nothing. Have you ever delivered a presentation with bad news and found the audience wouldn’t let you finish? It’s probably your slides. Let’s take a look at an example of good news. […]