PowerPoint Tips

Learning the simple principles in this post can start to transform your visual aids and dramatically improve the effectiveness of your presentation communication. Research into how our eyes move when we scan a document or a slide has shown the following patterns: Western people’s eyes go first to top left corner of the page.(This is…

The advent of widely available broadband connections has opened up a whole new world of web based applications that allow you to do many of the things you would have traditionally used a software package online without the need to buy or install the software on your PC. Up until now the alternatives to PowerPoint…

If you find using traditional linear PowerPoint presentations restrictive and boring then you need to take a look at Robert A. Lane’s website on Relational Presenting. Robert and his team have developed an inspirational way of harnessing the functionality already built in to PowerPoint to allow flexible presentations that can be customised on the fly.…

Hi again,I just discovered the following site which, if you are a PowerPoint user, you should bookmark.It is a mine of information! http://pptfaq.com/index.html

Yes it’s true PowerPoint was first released in 1987 and was originally designed for the Apple Mac. 20 years later it’s still going strong yet it still gets most of the blame for the millions of boring business presentations that occur around the world every year. When I was a child I was taught that…

I recently attended an excellent presentation by Anthony Willoughby. He helps senior business people develop their strategic plans in a novel way using the same techniques that Masai Warriors communicate their territory to their tribe. I’m not going to talk about his approach however, I want to focus on his presentation. What was refreshing was…

I remember working with a team from a company to help them with their sales pitch presentation. As part of the day we reviewed the content and design of their PowerPoint Presentation and, unsurprisingly, their slides were very wordy, “corporate”, and dull. When I asked them why they designed their slides this way, there was…

Have you ever been giving a presentation and you have been asked a question which has required you to temporarily divert from the topic of the slide you are showing? Have you ever wanted to engage your audience in discussion and not wanted them to be distracted by your last slide So what do you…