Participants in my workshops confirm it every time I ask. The most common way professionals start preparing their presentation is to copy slides from previous files. The presenter picks all the slides they think might be useful in this presentation. This is a big mistake that causes many presentations to be not nearly as effective…
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 pension management company (June 12, 2015, Toronto, 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.
Converting written content to a SlideShare deck
As a professional who is using written content to market your products or services, you probably have many articles, special reports, and white papers. How can you take the content you have already created and convert it to take advantage of the SlideShare platform? Do you need to hire a designer? No. You can do…
Sources for Free Images; Issue #313 June 10, 2014
Photos are one of the types of visuals that many presenters include in their presentations. There are photos that are specific to our organization, like product photos, photos of our staff, screen captures of an internal system, and photos of our locations or facilities. We use these photos to illustrate a point we want to…
Half-day workshop for transportation agency (June 5, 2015, Toronto, ON)
In this customized half-day session, I will review the RAPIDS approach to creating a clear message with focused content and the HVF approach to selecting & creating effective visuals.
Visual Slide Revolution listed in Prezi’s Top 100 Presentation Resources
Dave’s book The Visual Slide Revolution is listed as one of 13 books in Prezi’s Top 100 Online Resources Every Presenter Should See.
Half-day workshop for beverage company (May 28, 2015, Picton, ON)
Customized half-day workshop for marketing employees focused on how to create effective visuals in PowerPoint with hands-on practice creating slide makeovers of their own slides.
Universal Indicators; Issue #312 May 27, 2014
Next week I am presenting a workshop to accountants in Vancouver. One of the points I will be making is that when you show a number that indicates the difference between a measured figure and a standard, you need to use an indicator so the audience knows whether this is a good number or not.…
The Globe and Mail May 26, 2014
Dave’s article on starting your presentation with a hook that shows the audience why they need to pay attention was cited by The Globe and Mail Report on Business in this article.
Full-day workshop for communications company (May 22, 2015, Elgin, IL)
Customized full-day workshop for staff at a communications company covering how to use PowerPoint to create effective visuals such as graphs, diagrams, and slides using images.