In an earlier blog, I wrote about how the slides were not the presentation and that the design of the slides needed to be almost the last thing you did when preparing for a presentation. Not the first thing that you do and not because they are a great way of having your script visible […]
How do I design PowerPoint Slides? First of all – don’t design them, first of all. It’s a misleading title I am afraid. PowerPoint (or other packages) is great. There are many books on slide design and the well-designed slide can make a presentation stand out from all others. I’m all for using slides. But. […]
People do get their knickers in a twist when it comes to using PowerPoint! At Speaking Club this week it only took one person to say how exasperated they were at the standard of Powerpoint being used to set off a whole animated discussion about PowerPoint ‘hates’! And yet the group were honest enough to […]
I saw a frantic and desperate message on Facebook this weekend from a lovely lady who was preparing for a presentation she was giving on Sunday just gone. Oh ********k! I am so upset i could throw up! Normally wld transfer onto hard drive but saved presentation on laptop…which now refuses to start up Rescue […]
I used to just get bored in presentations that did not engage me. But now I find I am getting increasingly irritated. Why do people insist on talking at me (and the rest of the audience) instead of creating rapport and a conversation? And while we are on the subject, isn’t it disrespectful to fail […]
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Three reasons why PowerPoint stinks
Feedback is useless…
Could you present on anything?
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