Do you deliver presentations regularly? Would you like to improve your skills and deliver more effective presentations? If so, I have many books and videos you can use to become better at creating and delivering PowerPoint presentations. My resources are focused on practical advice and ideas you can use immediately.

Books

• Present It So They Get It PowerPoint presentations have a bad reputation today because audiences often leave confused and unsure of what the presenter was trying to communicate. If your audiences aren’t clear on your message and aren’t taking the action you want them to take, there is hope. You can learn how to create effective presentations that the audience will ...
• 102 Tips to Communicate More Effectively Using PowerPoint You create and deliver presentations regularly. Your success depends on those presentations being effective. You use PowerPoint, but know that you could be more effective. You don’t have time to attend a course and you sure don’t want a thick technical manual. You’d love to find practical, proven tips that you ...
• The Visual Slide Revolution You’ve had enough of the overloaded text slides that most presenters use. You’ve seen a few people use visuals instead of bullet paragraphs and it is so much more effective. But you figure that you’d need some graphic design training and thousands of dollars of software and equipment to create visuals for your ...
• Delivering Your Message With PowerPoint (for Government presenters) Presenters at all levels in government organizations are increasingly called on to communicate important messages through PowerPoint presentations. Whether it is getting approval for a new initiative, reporting progress on a project, or providing training on an upcoming policy change, the presentation needs to be effective so that the audience takes action. This new book ...
• Guide to PowerPoint books When the academic division of Prentice Hall wanted to publish a book on using PowerPoint, they wanted it to be different from every other book on the market. It was to be part of their highly successful Series in Advanced Business Communication, which is used in MBA and college programs all over the world. It ...

Webinar Recordings & Videos

• Techniques for Using Financial Data in PowerPoint webinar Financial data is confusing if all you do is paste a huge spreadsheet on a slide. This webinar will show you the techniques in PowerPoint to create financial slides that are easier for the audience to understand. Accountants and financial professionals have always needed to put financial data into their presentations. With an increased focus on ...
• Using Diagrams in PowerPoint to Illustrate Your Message webinar Diagrams allow you to illustrate concepts or ideas in a way that bullet points just  can’t match. You don’t need specialized graphics training to create effective diagrams. This webinar will show you examples, best practices, and the insider techniques to quickly create diagrams in PowerPoint. Graphs are a good way to make numeric information visual. But ...
• Advanced Graphing Techniques webinar Once you are comfortable creating basic graphs in PowerPoint, it is time to take your skills to the next level. By using advanced techniques, your graphs can communicate your message even more effectively. You are now comfortable creating graphs in PowerPoint and you agree that they show data better than a spreadsheet pasted on the slide.  ...
• Using Animation to Focus the Audience, Not Annoy Them webinar Audiences are annoyed by the swirling, twirling and flying effects that make them dizzy.  Learn how to use animation effects to focus your audience on your message and keep them glued to your presentation. You’ve seen the annoying flying text, bouncing photos and swirling shapes.  These uses of animation effects lead some to suggest you avoid ...
• Creating effective graphs for your PowerPoint slides webinar The default graphs in PowerPoint are cluttered and hard to understand. Learn how to create graphs that are clean, clear, and instantly understood by your audience. If you present numerical information or financial information, graphs are likely a better way to show your message than a slide full of numbers.  Unfortunately the default graph settings that ...
• Finding and using photographs in your PowerPoint slides webinar Photographs are an essential part of PowerPoint presentations today.  Now you can learn how to find and use photos that have impact, without needing to be a photography expert. The era of ClipArt is over.  Audiences see it and they immediately devalue your message. Photos have taken over and they are required in today’s presentations.  To take ...
• Incorporating Video In Your PowerPoint Presentation webinar Video is the hottest trend in presentations.  Now you can learn how to add video to your PowerPoint presentation without spending thousands of dollars or taking days of extra effort. Video is the hottest trend in communicating.  We are watching more video than ever before on the Internet and we have seen presenters use video clips ...
• 20 Expert Tips to Create Persuasive PowerPoint Slides webinar recording Tanja Parsley, a fellow professional speaker, and President of Partners in Performance, asked me to share some key tips on how to create effective slides. In this webinar, I mostly used slide makeovers to illustrate the ideas, so you get to see the impact that each tip can have on your own presentations.
• How to create and deliver effective web-based presentations Are you thinking of using WebEx, GoToMeeting, Live Meeting or other online meeting services because of these issues? Travel costs are being cut Health concerns are cancelling in-person meetings Teams are now scattered around the country or the world All of the reasons shown above may have you presenting using an online web-based meeting service like WebEx, GoToMeeting, Live Meeting or other ...
• PowerPoint How-To webinar  Gain an unfair advantage over other presenters by using little known techniques in PowerPoint to create persuasive visuals that have impact Learn from the comfort of your office in under 90 minutes and pay less than fifty dollars. When’s the last time you got this much useful information for so little money? In my recent public workshops, conference ...

Public Events

• ICAO course: How to Present Financial Data Effectively using PowerPoint (July 10, 2013, Toronto) Accountants often use PowerPoint to present financial data to peers, executives, suppliers, and others. It is critical that others understand the impact of the financial analysis so that decisions can be made and the bottom line positively impacted. Unfortunately, too often the barrage of numbers is overwhelming to the audience and they leave confused. This full-day ...
• Presentation Summit September 22-24, 2013 Where can you go to improve your PowerPoint presentations by hanging out with the best presentation designers and experts in the world? The Presentation Summit. This annual conference is a must-attend for those who are serious about taking their presentation to the next level. This year, join me and 250 other presentation enthusiasts in Ft. ...

Recommended Books from Other Authors

• Building PowerPoint Templates Step by step with the experts When I review slides, I often find poorly constructed templates that cause headaches for presenters as they try to create presentations. How can organizations create templates that work and are easy for presenters to use? This book lays out the step by step process you can follow to create a PowerPoint template that your staff ...