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…
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 network equipment manufacturer (March 27, 2015, Ottawa, ON)
Customized full-day workshop for staff at a network equipment manufacturer covering planning a presentation, reducing information overload, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
Full-day workshop for procurement staff (March 26, 2015, Montreal, QC)
Customized full-day workshop for procurement staff at a network equipment manufacturer covering planning a presentation, reducing information overload, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
City A.M. March 24, 2014
Dave’s Annoying PowerPoint survey and calculation of how much poor PowerPoint presentations cost organizations is used in this article titled “Four presentation mistakes to avoid” in City A.M. (UK)
Using Excel Data in a PowerPoint Presentation
Since the topic of presenting financial or operational data calculated in Excel is so popular, I put together this page to bring together my best articles and resources to help professionals use Excel data in a PowerPoint presentation.
Numbers only measure a story; Issue #307 March 18, 2014
Why do presenters use so many spreadsheets and tables of numbers in their presentations? The answer I get from participants in my workshops is that the numbers and analysis are important. The audience needs to see all the numbers. In this article I want to explain why I think that the numbers are not as…
Presentation Xpert Newsletter March 13, 2014
Presentation Xpert used Dave’s article on How to play YouTube and Vimeo videos from a browser within your PowerPoint presentation in their March issue.
Half-day workshop for beverage company (March 9, 2015, Mississauga, ON)
Customized half-day workshop for marketing employees focused on creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
Make Numbers Visual; Issue #306 March 4, 2014
Last fall at the Presentation Summit conference, I started to evolve my focus, even though I didn’t realize it at the time. I have come to realize that how I help presenters the best is to show them how to make the numbers in their presentations visual. To take the spreadsheets, tables, and overly complex…
3 big mistakes professionals make when presenting financial or operational data to executives
After you browse through the slides below, check out this curated collection of resources on Using Excel Data in PowerPoint Presentations. [sc:slideshare_3BigMistakes ]