OBJECTIVE Accountants often use PowerPoint to present financial data to peers, executives, suppliers, and others. It is critical that others understand the impact of the financial analysis so that decisions can be made and the bottom line positively impacted. Unfortunately, too often the barrage of numbers is overwhelming to the audience and they leave confused.…
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.
A presenter’s most important resource; Issue #324 November 11, 2014
What is the most important resource for a presenter? Some may say it is time. Time to prepare and the time spent delivering the presentation. Some may say it is knowledge. The knowledge of the topic and knowing how to communicate that message. And others would have different answers. I would say there is one…
Full-day workshop for pharma company (November 10, 2015, North Chicago, IL)
Customized full-day workshop for engineering staff covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
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Shifting breakdown of segments totalling 100%; Slide Makeover #80
Use a diverging stacked bar chart to make the changes in two groups of segments easier for the audience to understand
Best of the Presentation Summit 2014; Issue #323 October 28, 2014
Two weeks ago I attended and presented two sessions at the Presentation Summit, the annual presentation design conference hosted by Rick Altman. As I usually do the first newsletter after the conference, here are a few of the best ideas from the conference. My first session was on creating visuals for financial presentations instead of…
2015 AFP Annual Conference (Oct 18-21, 2015; Denver, CO)
I will be delivering two sessions at the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) Annual Conference in Denver. In the Career Development track I will present “Data Visualization in Spreadsheet Presentations” and in the Financial Planning & Analysis track I will deliver “Eliminate spreadsheet overload by presenting data visualizations”. This gathering of over 6,000 finance professionals…
Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) Conference (October 18-21, 2015, Denver,CO)
I will be speaking twice at the annual AFP Conference in Denver, CO. Both sessions focus on how financial professionals can effective present visuals instead of spreadsheets. Registration and more information is on the conference website at http://an15.afponline.org/.
Confusing the message with supporting information; Issue #322 October 14, 2014
A recent consulting assignment was a good demonstration of the problem presenters run into when they confuse their message with the supporting information. My client was presenting to executives to suggest what they should do about a situation in one of their divisions. The problem was that she had structured the presentation so it listed…
Two-day workshop for automotive research company (October 14-15, 2015, Burnaby, BC)
Customized two-day workshop for various staff covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas, and hands-on practice creating effective visuals in PowerPoint.