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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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Seeing your Speaking Notes in PowerPoint while presenting slides in Microsoft Teams if you only have one screen One of the most common questions that has been asked about presenting PowerPoint slides in a Microsoft Teams meeting is how to use Presenter View if you only have one screen. Presenters who use this mode have been accustomed to adding their speaking notes in the Notes section below the ... Read more...
Building your skills for Teams & Zoom meetings; Issue #465 May 26, 2020 In the last newsletter I shared how meetings in the future will be different and shared links to my videos and guide that review some of the challenges and solutions. These ideas were quoted in an article in Canada’s national business newspaper and led to a radio interview last week. Presenters ... Read more...
The Globe and Mail May 21 & 22, 2020 Harvey Schachter featured Dave’s Guide to the Future of Business Meetings in his online column titled “The new rules for presentations in the age of restricted meeting sizes“. The column was included in the print edition of the paper the next day on May 22 2020. Read more...
Engage audiences with polls and exercises in Zoom and Microsoft Teams meetings by using Microsoft Forms As many professionals have flocked to virtual meeting platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, they have realized that engaging a remote audience is harder than engaging an audience in the meeting room. One of the most popular suggestions is to use polls or exercises, especially if you are teaching or ... Read more...
Meetings won’t be the same in the future; Issue #464 May 12, 2020 As we see more governments allow more workers to return to businesses after the coronavirus lockdowns, you need to realize that things are never going back to the way they were before. Business meetings will not look like they did at the start of this year. Companies have announced that a ... 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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