In this issue
1. Latest Slide Makeover
2. Learn 25 Tips to Communicate More Effectively Using PowerPoint
3.
"You know, it's just like ..."
4. Have you got your copy of The Visual Slide Revolution yet?
5. From the Blog
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I received
great feedback on the Communicate
Effectively Using PowerPoint public seminars in Ontario.
Here's what Christy in London said about the session:
"Tons
of great ideas I can use to make presentations more interesting,
effective, and audience oriented."
The next program is in Boston, MA on April 27th and seats are already
filling up. Get all the details and register at www.PresentEffectively.com .
I've also received many compliments on my new book, "102 Tips To
Communicate More Effectively Using PowerPoint."
Jean wrote:
"I
love the format - it's so easy for me to pick
it up and read a tip at a time and really digest the information.
Because of the format, I started reading it right away!"
Get
your copy today.
Latest
Slide Makeover Video
Don't
randomly draw shapes on your slide if you are comparing them because
audiences interpret the proportions of the items they see on a
slide. Use the ideas in this makeover to give the audience an
accurate interpretation of items that are proportional. Click
on the
video below to play it in your browser via YouTube (or watch it on Brainshark or my web
site at
www.ThinkOutsideTheSlide.com/podcasts).
In
three hours, learn 25 ways you can communicate more effectively when
presenting with PowerPoint
Many professionals need to deliver presentations using
PowerPoint. But very few have been given the training they
need in order to communicate effectively when using
PowerPoint. That’s why so many presentations are described as
“Death by PowerPoint”. With many corporations cutting
training budgets, professional development is harder to justify since
you have to pay for it out of your own pocket.
I’m doing something about these problems. I am offering
a session in Boston, MA (April 27th) to give presenters
twenty-five
tips they can use to
immediately improve their PowerPoint presentations. These are
half-day morning programs that are packed with practical ideas and cost
only $99 per person (less if you sign up early). It’s not a
lot of time out of the office, and the return on your investment is
immediate. All the details are at http://www.PresentEffectively.com.
PowerPoint
Tip: "You
know, it’s just like…"
One of the reasons that presenters don’t use visuals instead of text is
because they don’t know what visual to use to explain the point they
are making. Business professionals tell me all the time that
they aren’t graphic artists or designers, so how can they come up with
a visual? In my book "The Visual Slide Revolution", I list 38
words or phrases and the clues they give as to what visual will work as
a good replacement for all the text. Recently, I came up with
an additional insight.
I was preparing a workshop for a client and I realized how powerful the
following phrase can be when thinking about
visuals. We often use this phrase, "You know, it's just like ..." during conversations when
we are trying to explain a concept, idea, process, object, or pretty
much anything that the other person is not familiar with. We
use this phrase to frame the new item in a way that is easy to
understand for the listener.
Let me break this phrase down into two parts to show the power it
has. First, the start of the phrase "You know." By
starting with these words, we put the listener on notice that we are
about to explain something in a way that is familiar to them.
Immediately they are put at ease knowing that the coming explanation
will be easy to understand because it is coming from a perspective of
familiarity. The second part of the phase, "it’s just like",
lets them know that we are going to create a word picture
analogy. This allows them to organize the coming information
in a familiar way since it is similar to something they already know.
Here’s how this phrase can help you create visuals in your
presentations. Whenever you are stuck wondering what visual
would be better than paragraphs of text, place yourself in the position
of explaining the idea to someone who has no background with what you
are talking about. Start by saying, "You know, it’s just like
…" and finish that sentence. Capture the word picture you
just painted either by writing it out or recording yourself on your
computer or cell phone. Turn that word picture into an actual
visual on your slide.
I never suggest that we can eliminate all text from our presentations,
that’s not the objective. Research shows that visuals are
more powerful than text alone, so use the phrase, "You know, it’s just
like …" to develop visuals for your slides that will make your
presentation more effective.
Have
you got your copy of The
Visual Slide Revolution Yet?
A reviewer on Amazon.com titled their review of my book "Excellent for every business
professional" and said:
"The concepts in this book are excellent and long overdue in the
corporate world where muddled PowerPoint is the norm. Most PowerPoint
books teach you how to create lovely-to-behold slides that contain very
little data. Paradi tosses that paradigm upside down, with slides that
even the artistically-challenged can create and that are rich with data
- perfect for business managers.
The concepts are clear and practical, and demonstrated with actual
examples from Paradi's consulting and training practice."
"... the content in this book is better than you'll find in books like
Beyond Bullet Points or Your PowerPoint Sucks..."
"Bottom line is this
deserves a place on every business professional's bookshelf."
If you haven’t got your copy yet, go to www.VisualSlideRevolution.com
today.
From
the Blog at PPtIdeas.blogspot.com:
How the ban on texting while driving applies
to presentations
Video required before you speak at conference
See all
blog posts and add
your comments at http://pptideas.blogspot.com
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