May 17, 2011
And from the “If-it-aint-true-just-make-it-up” department, comes this lazy article from SourPointer Jim Edwards. His article claims Pfizer employees wasted 30% of their time on PowerPoint until […]
May 16, 2011
Some people are adamant you should never read your slides. Why? In part, because of research by Richard Mayer, author of Multi-Media Learning. But his research has been misinterpreted […]
May 10, 2011
Does your presentation include a S.T.A.R. Moment – Something They’ll Always Remember? This is a concept introduced by Nancy Duarte in her book Resonate. I was […]
May 9, 2011
Among graph-makers, a debate rages. One camps say remove all “non-essential” items from graphs, including gridlines, tick marks and even color inside the bars – what […]
May 8, 2011
(Back to part 1). So far we’ve talked about how to use stories, or story elements, to introduce a presentation. But what about the rest of […]
May 7, 2011
This is my favorite Dilbert video. It’s hilarious because it’s true. 1. Business audiences don’t read text documents. PowerPoint is replacing text documents in many businesses. […]
May 6, 2011
I’m a big Stephen Few fan and have learned a ton about designing graphs, tables and information dashboards from his books and his graph makeovers. But there was one […]
May 4, 2011
I was presenting the Mindworks Presentation Method to a team at Microsoft this week and I asked them what challenges they had creating PowerPoint slides. One person commented […]
May 2, 2011
In the last blog post, we discussed the first way to incorporate storytelling into your boardroom presentation by using a story to grab the audience’s attention […]