Make the Message Stick: Tell a Story

Carolyn DicksonPosted by Carolyn Dickson on March 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment

You’ve been there. Slide after slide flashes across the screen. Fact follows fact; data piles on data, and charts appear and disappear with regularity. To make it worse, the speaker reads each line of text, just in case you weren’t capable of figuring it all out by yourself.
When you leave a presentation like this, you [...]

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Seven ways to make PowerPoint more effective

Leslie DicksonPosted by Leslie Dickson on January 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Your Point of Power Is NOT In PowerPoint!
I often hear business people expressing the absolute need and expectation for PowerPoint in their presentations. That’s fine.  Just remember that slides don’t make presentations.  You do. The over-use of PowerPoint slides in recent years has greatly reduced the power of the presenter and the presentation.
Are you giving [...]

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Are Your Visual Aids Visual Roadblocks?

Greg DicksonPosted by Greg Dickson on January 22nd, 2010 | 0 Comments

Reach your audience through YOU, not through your media.
Times are hard, so it’s particularly maddening to see a good opportunity squandered because of events seemingly out of your control. I’m talking about those situations where perfectly good presentations are destroyed by technical failures. Where all you can do is watch in agony as a golden [...]

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