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.
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.
Half-day workshop for beverage company (November 11, 2014, Collingwood, 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.
Chantal Bosse November 6, 2013
Chantal, a fellow PowerPoint MVP from Quebec, wrote an article in French about the key results of Dave’s Annoying PowerPoint survey. The article is here: http://presentationsefficaces.blogspot.ca/2013/11/presentations-powerpoint-irritantes.html
When you are forced to show a large spreadsheet; Slide Makeover #77
Add callouts to help the audience understand the key messages when you are forced to show a large spreadsheet on a slide
Seattle Interactive Conference October 30, 2013
Adam Tratt of Haiku Deck included results from Dave’s Annoying PowerPoint survey in his presentation at the Seattle Interactive Conference. You can view his entire deck here: http://www.haikudeck.com/p/eq7DBvXfYO/secrets-of-a-killer-pitch-sicpitch-sic2013
Show steps in a process; October 29, 2013
When you need to explain a process, whether it is a manufacturing process, process for handling expense claims, or process for installing a new system, there are steps you want to walk the audience through. The default template in PowerPoint leads many presenters to use a numbered list of steps: step one through to the…
One and a half day workshop for financial institution (October 29-30, 2014, Toronto, ON)
Customized one and a half day workshop for analysts and management covering information overload, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas. This session is hands-on with the participants practicing the skills as they are taught.
Haiku Deck October 23, 2013
Catherine Carr of Haiku Deck created a Haiku Deck presentation of the key results of Dave’s Annoying PowerPoint survey. View the deck here: http://www.haikudeck.com/p/KE2snJMtfn/annoying-powerpoint-survey-results
Ideas from the 2013 Presentation Summit; October 15, 2013
Every year when I speak at and attend the Presentation Summit conference I come back with great ideas from other presentation experts that I can adapt or use in my own presentations. Last month the conference was in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and in this article I want to share three ideas I picked up at…
Presentation Summit conference (October 12-15, 2014, San Diego, CA)
I will attend and present at the annual Presentation Summit conference. Full details and registration at www.PresentationSummit.com.