Customized half-day workshop for researchers and management covering planning a presentation, focusing the message, and creating effective visuals. The session includes 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.
2017 Gift ideas for presenters; Issue #402 November 14, 2017
The holidays are just around the corner and if you are looking for a great gift for a presenter in your life, I have some suggestions for you. I regularly get asked what equipment I use, so I’ve put together a list of the items I have found most useful when presenting. With Black Friday,…
Significant trends over the last 10 years of the Annoying PowerPoint Survey
After I released the results of the latest survey on what annoys audiences about PowerPoint presentations, I was asked if there were more insights from a deeper examination of the results. I had already reported on all the results from the latest survey, so I looked back over the last ten years to see if…
One-day workshop for Medical Company (November 8, 2018, Lake County, IL)
Customized one-day workshop for researchers and management covering planning a presentation, focusing the message, and creating effective visuals. The session includes slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas. The last part of the day is hands-on practice creating the effective visuals they saw earlier in the day.
AFP Annual Conference (November 4-7, 2018, Chicago, IL)
At the AFP Annual Conference I will be delivering a session on Using Big Data Analytics in Executive Reporting. You can see all of the conference sessions and register here.
Showing breakeven analysis; Slide Makeover #89
Show the breakeven analysis on an investment visually instead of a spreadsheet or table of numbers.
Creating a Gantt chart with Milestones using a Stacked Bar Chart in Excel or PowerPoint
When you need an accurate Gantt chart, you can use a stacked bar graph in Excel to create it
Document or Presentation? How to choose; Issue #401 October 31, 2017
One of the key results from my latest survey on annoying PowerPoint presentations was that too often professionals are presenting a document on the screen as a presentation. This overwhelms the audience, leaving them confused and upset. Professionals feel they need to include more and more content in their presentations to satisfy the requests of…
PR Moment India October 27, 2017
The results of Dave’s 2017 Annoying PowerPoint survey were featured in an article on “The most annoying Power Point habits in PR“.
P2F2 Conference (October 22, 2018; Savannah, GA)
At a conference for financial professionals in the pension plan industry I will be delivering a session on how to present financial results and analysis visually. This conference is restricted to association members only and is not open to the public.