by Alan | May 22, 2006 | Communication skills, Don't!, PowerPoint
Following up Saturday’s post on the elite consulting group with the presentation from the netherworld…Some things that were just bad slide design made a bad thing even worse. Again, I don’t normally try to counsel number of slides, but this...
by Alan | May 19, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!, Leadership, PowerPoint
With a group of writers today watching an archived webcast of a presentation. Presenters were high-level folks at a very recognizable communications firm. My expectations were sky-high to hear what these respected thought leaders would have to say.Man, was I...
by Alan | May 12, 2006 | Communication skills, PowerPoint, Sales
Worked with a presenter today who had a beautiful presentation — I don’t know that I could have been as creative and visual as the final product he produced. It had pictures, few words, allowed for a maximum of interactivity, and was compelling stuff. ...
by Alan | May 10, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, PowerPoint, Sales
More from today’s Beyond Bullet Points presentation…Cliff did a live survey for the audience’s response as to what a “normal” (boring, bullet-drive) PPT presentation made them feel like. About 80% of respondants enterred one of two...
by Alan | May 10, 2006 | Communication skills, PowerPoint
Took in Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points webinar today. Interestingly enough, he had six violations of yesterday’s blog entry in the first 20 minutes 🙂 That said, I like his approach to cleaning up PowerPoint and his method will help thousands, to be...
by Alan | May 8, 2006 | Communication skills, PowerPoint
My session at Saturday’s Toastmasters conference was titled Interactive Techniques for Presentations. It’s still amazing to me how few presentations employ any techniques to get the crowd active and involved. But this isn’t true in kindergarten...
