PowerPoint Tips

Last week I gave up a day of my time to help develop young entrepreneurs as part of a schools enterprise day.  During the day I think I learned why so many will go on to become poor presenters…. The kids (sorry students!) were great as were the teachers and their challenge was to research,…

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I’ve been mind mapping the proceedings of the annual APM conference in London and there has been some excellent content. The only problem is that far too many of the speakers use too small a font on the slides! It may be readable on your laptop, but from the back of a conference hall it…

If your PowerPoint presentation is a disaster don’t blame PowerPoint… It seems these days that everyone is condemning this powerful tool without taking any responsibility for the fact that they created and delivered the slides that put their audience to sleep ! As a child I was taught that “A good workman never blames his…

Did you know that your PowerPoint Presentations don’t have to be linear. Using the hyperlinking feature built in to PowerPoint 2003 you can jump back and forward between slides with ease. Yes its true, you can turn a boring one slide by slide presentation into a flexible presentation network that allows you to jump seamlessly…

Following on from my last post, I have produced a short video tutorial showing how you can use PowerPoint to produce effective handouts without comprimising your visuals. Check it out and let me know what you think.

The reason that most people give for putting too much text in their slides is that I print them out as handouts. In this post learn how to banish this problem once and for all. The bad news is that Visual Aids are aids and handouts are handouts. The are separate entities that have completely…