Customized full-day workshop for an operations group covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
Author: Dave Paradi
Dave Paradi has over twenty-two years of experience delivering customized training workshops to help business professionals improve their presentations. He has written ten books and over 600 articles on the topic of effective presentations and his ideas have appeared in publications around the world. His focus is on helping corporate professionals visually communicate the messages in their data so they don't overwhelm and confuse executives. Dave is one of fewer than ten people in North America recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions to the Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams communities. His articles and videos on virtual presenting have been viewed over 4.8 million times and liked over 17,000 times on YouTube.
Presentation Summit Oct 7-10, 2012
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 Scottsdale, AZ from Oct 8 to 11. Once again, I’ll be presenting at the conference and hope you can attend.
Webinar for Rhonda Scharf (October 4, 2012)
This webinar helps those in a support or admin role who create presentations for others. Full details and registration is on Rhonda’s site at www.on-the-right-track.com.
Using an analogy to make a large number make sense; Slide Makeover #74
Presenters often struggle with how to make large numbers easy for the audience to understand. This makeover shows how using a four step process can create a visual that makes it easy for the audience to grasp the importance and magnitude of a large number. Click here to watch the video on YouTube
Half-day workshop for telecom equipment sales team (September 26, 2012, Baltimore, MD)
A customized half-day workshop to help a sales team at a telecom equipment company learn how to better structure their presentations so that the message is clear and appropriate for the audience.
Full-day session for medical devices company (September 18, 2012, Mississauga, ON)
First half of the day will be reviewing how to plan your message and create effective slides. Second half of the day will be looking at their slides and suggesting improvements that can be made, as well as demonstrating techniques to save time in PowerPoint.
Full-day workshop for vehicle manufacturer (September 12, 2012, London, ON)
Customized full-day workshop for engineers, finance, and other professionals covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
Individual consulting for executive of a healthcare firm (September 6, 2012)
I was asked to work with an executive in a healthcare firm to improve her slides for an executive committee presentation the following week.
Presentation Xpert Newsletter July 7, 2011
Dave’s article on an alternative to video in a web presentation was published in the Presentation Xpert newsletter here.
City AM newspaper (London, England) June 2, 2011
Five of Dave’s tips featured in this article in City AM in London England (June 2, 2011)