While I was working with an executive earlier this year on an important presentation she was delivering at a conference, I realized how important it is to have a backup story ready. If you are relying on a story to illustrate a key point in your presentation, this may be advice you will want to…
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.
Full-day workshop for communication equipment company (October 1, 2015, Ottawa, ON)
Customized full-day workshop for various staff covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
Discernment; Issue #320 September 16, 2014
Discernment is defined as making wise decisions or judging well. In order to make wise decisions as a presenter, you have to ask the right questions. Too often, presenters don’t ask key questions that help them determine the content and approach that will be most successful. Why don’t presenters ask the right questions? Often it…
Jargon and Acronyms; Issue #319 September 2, 2014
For a number of years I have been advising participants in my workshops to minimize the use of jargon or acronyms in their presentations to audiences that will likely not know what those terms mean. I didn’t fully realize how problematic these were until the results of my recent survey on the state of financial…
Top 5 PowerPoint Tips for Student Presentations in School
Recently a friend, Beverly, asked if I could please give some advice that elementary school kids could use when preparing PowerPoint presentations for class. For those of you who don’t have kids or grandkids in elementary school, teachers are now requiring many projects to be presented using PowerPoint (our kids started using PowerPoint in third…
The Globe and Mail September 1, 2014
Dave’s tip on using Diagrammer.com to quickly find pre-made diagrams was mentioned in this article on tips to improve your productivity.
Paperless handouts; Issue #318 August 9, 2014
The proliferation of smartphones, tablets, and hybrid laptop/tablet devices in organizations has given presenters opportunities to move towards paperless handouts. A recent client experience had me re-examine methods that can work today. The attendees at this particular workshop are all regularly travelling and this has necessitated them moving to an almost totally paperless environment. They…
Adding a PDF document to OneNote in iOS or iPadOS so you can take notes on it
If your presentation attendees want to take notes on a PDF handout you have sent them, one option is to use Microsoft’s OneNote. This cross-platform program allows users on iOS to add a PDF document to a note, making it easy for someone to import your PDF handout into OneNote, add thoughts and comments during…
Forbes.com August 15, 2014
Dave is quoted as one of twenty world-class presentation experts in an article on Forbes.com. His article on using a GPS approach to planning your presentation is highlighted.
Presentation Xpert Newsletter August 13, 2014
Presentation Xpert featured Dave’s article on creating diverging stacked bar charts and his calculator that makes it easy for presenters to create this type of visual.