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How to Present your Excel data effectively to Executives

Get your copy of this 24 page ebook that covers: reducing the data in your presentation, creating effective graphs & other visuals in Excel or PowerPoint, and copying Excel data to PowerPoint. Click here to get your copy.

What do you think of the financial presentations you see? Let me know in this survey

Do you regularly sit through presentations of financial and operational data? Do you wish the presentations were better? Let me know your thoughts in The State of Financial Presentations Survey 2014. This short survey will only take 2-3 minutes of your time.

3 Big Mistakes professionals make when presenting financial or operational data to executives

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Slide Makeover #78: Showing trends in related series of data

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Managers and Leaders

Have you had enough of the poor presentations your group delivers? Are your sales or business development presentations not delivering the results you want? Does the audience leave confused after your financial or technical presentation? If you answered “YES” to any of these questions, there is a solution. I provide training and consulting to help teams create and deliver effective PowerPoint presentations.

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Help for Presenters

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.

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I want your PowerPoint presentations to be more effective. On this site, you have access to: hundreds of articles on creating more effective presentations, back issues of my Presentation Tips newsletter, slide makeover videos, PowerPoint “how-to” video tutorials, tools to help select colors and fonts, solutions to common PowerPoint presentation problems, and other resources to improve your presentations

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2019 Gift List for Presenters; Issue #452 November 12 2019 I’m seeing Black Friday previews and pre-Black Friday sales have started. For the past couple of years I’ve put together a list of the products and services I use and recommend to those looking for gifts to give presenters or business professionals who have to create and deliver presentations as part of ... Read more...
Highlighting an area with a mask; Issue #451 October 29 2019 Sometimes you have a complex image, maybe a process diagram, chemical structure, or detailed schematic. You want to focus on one area to explain your message and you want the viewer to have context of where that one area fits into the overall picture. In this article I show you ... Read more...
Professional looking graphs; Issue #450 October 15 2019 It is relatively easy to create a graph in Excel or PowerPoint. But is the default graph good enough for a business presentation? I don’t think so. Recently I wrote three articles on how to make professional looking graphs for the three most common types of graphs: column graphs, line ... Read more...
Results of the 2019 Annoying PowerPoint survey; Issue #449 October 1 2019 Thank you to everyone who took the time and shared your honest opinions about the PowerPoint presentations you see. I have compiled all the responses and produced a full report which is linked below. To give you the highlights, I’ve included here the executive summary and the results summary infographic. ... Read more...
5 Good reasons to use your corporate PowerPoint template; Issue #448 September 17 2019 How do most business professionals start creating their PowerPoint slides? They open a previous presentation and copy a few slides into a new file, making sure to click the Keep Source Formatting option so the template from the previous file gets applied. This is a big mistake. You may get ... Read more...

What makes our training and consulting different?

Typical presentation training and consulting falls into one of three areas: technical PowerPoint courses, stand up presentation skills, or designing a prettier set of slides. If those are the skills you need, that is great. But what if the issue is that your PowerPoint presentations are overloaded with information and you aren’t getting your message across effectively? In that case, technical how-to information, speaking skills, or fancy graphics won’t help you reach your goal. That’s why our training and consulting helps you craft a clear message using persuasive visuals that is easy to deliver and gets results.

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