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The Awful Presentation Slides Cover-up
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. The foundation of your presentation is you. The presenter. If your delivery sucks. Your presentation will suck. Good slides or bad. Unless you deliver your presentation well, no amount of slide improvement can help you. In fact, it could actually hurt. Now, don't get me …
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 tell but stories sell. The most successful copywriters use stories to engage their readers. Often the reader is so engrossed in the story they don't …
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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. Let’s look at Barry’s story… Barry’s boss asked him to do a presentation on a new set of HR policies. Barry jumped straight onto his PC and started working with …
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 of your projects. After the initial shock wears off you resign yourself to doing a presentation. Friday’s not far away, so you need to get started on this presentation as soon as …
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How to Add Impact to Your 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. For this example let's imagine you are the head of marketing in a large organization. Sales have been bad for the last year or so. To counter the drop in …