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How to Present your Excel data effectively to Executives

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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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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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Hybrid meetings will put more of a focus on meeting room systems – Are you ready?
As a leader you are involved in the discussions about when and how to bring some staff back to the office. The reality is that most corporate offices will end up having a hybrid working arrangement with some people at the office some days and others working remotely. Meetings will ...
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Microsoft Work Trend Index: Hybrid meetings are the next challenge for business professionals
Just when you got comfortable with conducting virtual business meetings and presentations, now you will have to adapt rapidly again as the world moves to hybrid meetings. I’ve been talking about this future since April 2020 when I saw it coming as the next evolution after everyone went virtual (watch ...
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Alternatives to sharing a portion of Presenter View with 1 screen in Zoom (Windows) so you can see your notes
The problem with sharing a portion of your screen In my popular article and video on sharing your slides in a Zoom meeting if you only have one screen, I show how you can share just the current slide portion of Presenter View Preview so that you can see your notes ...
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6 ways presenting in a hybrid meeting is different than in-room or virtual meetings
As more professionals return at least part of the time to offices, hybrid meetings, where some attendees are in the room and others are remote, will become the norm for quite a while. Here are six ways presenting in a hybrid meeting is different than what you did when everyone ...
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6 ways the equipment setup for a hybrid meeting is different than in-room or virtual meetings
As more professionals return at least part of the time to offices, hybrid meetings, where some attendees are in the room and others are remote, will become the norm for quite a while. Here are six ways working with the equipment for a hybrid meeting is different than what you ...
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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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