Compare the same measurement categories across different groups visually
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.
Making table criteria explicit; Issue #356 February 2, 2016
Tables are a great way to help your audience understand a comparison between two or more options. The challenge is to make sure that the table makes the comparison clear. Just adding a table to a slide is not enough. Here is a slide submitted by a participant in a recent customized workshop. The problem…
Formatting bullet points; Issue #355 January 19, 2016
As I say in my customized workshops and I have said before, I believe that text slides continue to play an important role in business presentations. Not the text slides that are paragraphs that the presenter reads to the audience, but key text phrases that give your audience context for what you are saying. In…
Full-day workshops for Customer service Company (January 19-20, 2017, Toronto, ON)
Customized full-day workshops for analysts covering planning a presentation, focusing the message, and creating effective visuals. The session includes slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
Evening workshops for Graduate program (January 16-17, 2017, Toronto, ON)
Customized evening program for students in a Master of Finance program covering planning a presentation, focusing the message, and creating effective visuals. The session includes real world examples to reinforce the ideas.
Converting bullets to text grouped in shapes; Slide Makeover #83
Present bullet/sub-bullet text visually using text in shapes
Full-day workshop for NGO (January 11, 2017, Geneva, Switzerland)
Customized full-day workshop for senior finance staff covering planning a presentation, focusing the message, and creating effective visuals. The session includes slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
Sources of business visuals on Twitter; Issue #354 January 5, 2016
In my customized workshops I often share examples inspired by visuals for data I see online from news organizations. I have done makeovers of these as well (see this article). Why should business presenters pay attention to the visuals that news organizations create? Because our audiences are seeing these visuals and expect us to be…
Organic highlighting using ink; Issue #353 December 22, 2015
At the recent Microsoft MVP Summit we were discussing inking in PowerPoint. It is relatively rare that inking is useful in business presentations, as callouts usually serve as a better way to direct the audience’s attention to a particular spot on a slide. But as I watched what they were discussing, I realized that we…
Full-day workshops for utility (December 13-15, 2016, St. Louis, MO area)
Three Customized full-day workshops for engineering, operations, finance, and other staff covering planning a presentation, focusing the message, and creating effective visuals. The session includes slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.