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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 labor organization (April 23, 2015, Detroit, MI)
Customized full-day workshop for research staff covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
Free ebook: How to Present your Excel data effectively to Executives
Excel is the best tool for analyzing data. But Excel is for calculation, not communication. When it comes to communicating the results of our analysis, we need to create a presentation. If the presentation is effective, executives notice us and our career accelerates because communication is one of the top skills cited as necessary for…
Full-day workshop for labor organization (April 22, 2015, Detroit, MI)
Customized full-day workshop for education staff covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
Creating a graph in PowerPoint from data in Excel
If you want to create a graph for your PowerPoint slide using data from Excel, you have two choices. You can create the graph in Excel and link it to your slide using one of the methods in this article. Or you can create the graph in PowerPoint using the data from Excel. Don’t re-type…
Creating slides that print well in B&W; Issue #309 April 15, 2014
One of the participants at last Thursday’s workshop asked how the colorful charts and visuals I was showing would work when printed in grayscale on a black and white laser printer. For those who usually present with printed slides instead of projecting them on a screen, this is a real concern. Here is the issue…
Toastmasters magazine April 2014
Dave’s blog was listed as a presentation resource in the April 2014 issue of the Toastmasters magazine that goes to all 292,000 members worldwide. Here is the PDF version of the magazine: Toastmasters April 2014
Improving some graphs from Copyblogger’s State of Native Advertising report
I follow copyblogger.com because I find their information useful to my business. Yesterday they released a report on the state of native advertising (here is the full report). It doesn’t matter whether you know what that is (I didn’t initially). I want to explain why two of the graphs showing the results of their survey…
Linking a graph in PowerPoint to the Excel data so the graph can automatically update when the Excel worksheet changes
You probably arrived at this page because you are a business professional who has to present regularly to management or executives on analysis you have done in Excel. You don’t want to have to retype a table of numbers or recreate a graph in PowerPoint. Not only is that time you don’t have, but it…
Waterfall Graphs; Issue #308 April 1, 2014
One of the examples you see in this video on what people will learn in my workshops on presenting financial and operational data to executives, is a waterfall graph being used to show the components of the change between a starting value and an ending value. After I showed an example of a waterfall graph…