Even before you open MS PowerPoint to create your presentation, sit yourself down and go over the main idea of your presentation. What do you really want to convey to your audience? Write down whatever is topmost in your mind. Now have a look at the ideas you have jotted down. This list is the […]
Three Different Ways to Deliver Training Online
When delivering information across a wide audience that is scattered across geographical locations, business consultants, corporate decision-makers, training professionals, thought leaders and top speakers have been quick to realize the benefits of modern virtual training methods. Reduced travel time, minimal expenses, greater participation, improved communication and convenience are some of the benefits of delivering training […]
Know the Power of an Incomplete Sentence or Diagram
You’ll find hundreds of presentation skills tips on the internet. Have you heard of this one? We bet you haven’t! An incomplete sentence or diagram – but doesn’t that amount to an incomplete presentation? No, not if your intention is to get your audience thinking. And we all know that when something we see triggers […]
Mind the Language
This presentation tip may seem a no-brainer, but an astounding number of presenters don’t pay attention to their language, and therefore this topic definitely warrants a mention on this list. Your language both on your slides as well as in your delivery needs to be grammatically correct. On the slide, take care to avoid typos. […]
Built-in PowerPoint Special Effects Come to your Rescue
Let’s begin with the simplest tools available in PowerPoint. Text effects, picture effects, highlighting and shading tricks, let’s read more about how these can add to audience recall. PowerPoint lets you add scrolling text: Just highlight the text, then click on the Animations tab (in PowerPoint 2007) and click on Custom Animations. You will see […]
Use a Mix of Carefully Chosen Visual Elements
Yes we already spoke about the role visuals play in audience recall. Visuals are helpful but using a mix of them guarantees audience recall. So sprinkle each presentation with elements of visual design containing healthy mix of cartoons, graphs, videos, maps, animations, attractively presented text blocks, etc. and your audience will never be bored. Why […]
PowerPoint Do’s and Don’ts
PowerPoint gurus are prone to giving us huge lists of PowerPoint do’s and don’ts. It is impossible to follow all of them in every presentation, but it will certainly help you if you follow the basic best practices. Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 rule certainly tops our chart of best practices. Translated, it means use a 30 […]
Make Presentations Interactive
A two-way exchange of ideas and knowledge is much better than a one-way discourse. When you invite interaction you ‘draw in’ the audience, and they tend to contribute, participate and ‘take home’ key points of your presentation more easily. How can you make your presentations interactive? You can achieve interaction through something as simple as […]
Add Humor to Your Presentations
What is life without a few laughs and light moments? Humor adds value to your presentations too. In fact the more technical and serious your topic is, the more you should take care to incorporate a few light moments. How does humor help? It relaxes your audience, helps them to deal better with highly technical […]
Ditch the Bullet Points – Make an Impact with Infographics
Why are bullet points so ineffective? They are boring. They make presentations a bore. Therefore, the way out is to convert boring bullet points into interesting visuals by using compelling infographics. See some of our custom-made PowerPoint Infographics Here is a video from m62 that explains how you can do just this: What are other […]
Converting PowerPoint Presentations into e-Learning Tools
Training material created in Microsoft PowerPoint can be easily turned into a virtual training or online eLearning tool, using the interactive features and multimedia effects built into the latest versions of PowerPoint. In fact, the new video broadcast feature in PowerPoint 2010 makes it easier to host virtual training sessions live on the Web and […]
Presentation Tips : Less is More
You have surely heard some of the practical presentation tips before. Yet, it is a mistake that we make over and over again. In our enthusiasm, we tend to stuff our slides with information. We tend to explain it all. We tend to go overboard. There are two reasons why your presentations should have minimal […]
3 PowerPoint 2010 Features that Consultants will Love
PowerPoint 2010 makes creation of content with rich visual experience very easy. Microsoft describes the product as being able to create and share dynamic presentations. Here are the top 3 PowerPoint 2010 features that you as a consultant will definitely love Easy blending with videos Apart from the most noted benefit of being able to […]
