What does Twitter have to do with effective slides in your PowerPoint presentation? A lot more than you think. This occurred to me last week as I was helping a client prepare a presentation for an upcoming investor conference. Twitter gives us an interesting way to measure how much of an impact a message makes…
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.
Showing trends in related series of data; Slide Makeover #78
A line graph is easier to see trends in multiple data series than a stacked column graph
The Globe and Mail February 3, 2014
Dave’s article on using Amazon Storybuilder to outline your presentation was cited by The Globe and Mail Report on Business in this article.
3 Tips for making column graphs even clearer; Issue #304 February 4, 2014
In my workshops, I always recommend creating graphs in PowerPoint rather than copying them from Excel, because they are easier to edit and it avoids some of the problems of the entire spreadsheet being embedded into the PowerPoint file. Unfortunately, when you create a graph in PowerPoint, the default graph contains many distracting elements. In…
Full-day workshop for energy company (January 30, 2015, Toronto, ON)
Customized full-day workshop for a variety of employees covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.
Using Amazon Storybuilder to outline a presentation; Issue #303 January 21, 2014
Late last year Amazon Studios introduced a tool that will be helpful for presenters. Amazon Studios is a movie studio that helps produce films for film makers. How would their tools relate to presentations? Like the stories that film makers tell, our presentations should tell a story. In this article I want to share how…
Presentation Xpert Newsletter January 9, 2014
In their January 2014 issue, Presentation Xpert featured Dave’s article on creating proportional object collections and his calculator that makes it easy for presenters to figure out the dimensions of the shapes.
3 Steps to Lead Presentation Change in 2014; Issue #302 January 7, 2014
When I am delivering my workshops, a common concern is raised by the participants. They think that the ideas I share are great, they really like the slide makeovers I show them, but they are concerned that the new visuals they create won’t meet with management approval. So they don’t act on the information as…
Wall Skills December 17, 2013
Wall-Skills, an organization that creates one-page summaries of good ideas that companies can use to inspire and inform employees throughout the office, adapted one of Dave’s article on ten tips to improving your presentation. The one-page summary is at this link: http://wall-skills.com/2013/10-tips-presentation/
CPA Ontario course: How to Present Financial Data Effectively using PowerPoint (December 17, 2014, Ottawa)
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. This…