Customized two-day workshops for process engineering staff covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas. Also hands-on practice on creating the effective visuals shown.
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.
Journal of Emergency Medical Services June 5, 2013
Dave’s book Present It So They Get It was reviewed in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services here.
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ICABC course: How to Present Financial Data Effectively using PowerPoint (June 4, 2014, Vancouver)
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…
Canadian Government Executive June 3, 2013
Dave’s books, The Visual Slide Revolution and Present It So They Get It were reviewed in the June issue of Canadian Government Executive here.
Half-day hands-on workshop for pension plan staff (May 30, 2014, Toronto, ON)
Half-day hands-on workshop for previous attendees on how to create the effective visuals they saw in the previous workshop in PowerPoint.
Create a data driven Gantt chart
This video shows you how to create a Gantt chart in PowerPoint that is driven by dates. You can input the dates or copy them from a project management software like MS Project. This allows you to create Gantt charts that are exact, not an approximation.
Be prepared: VGA is going away; Issue #287 May 28, 2013
For many years presenters have walked into a room and connected their laptop to the projector using a VGA cable. All that will change in the next two years. The VGA port is being phased out by computer manufacturers. In this article I want to suggest what presenters can do now to prepare for this…
Don’t judge a presentation by the number of slides; Issue #286 May 14, 2013
When you open a PowerPoint file that has been sent to you, where do you look first? If you are like most people I speak to in my workshops, the first place you look is the lower left corner to see how many slides are in the file. Why do most people do this? Because…
Attending the Authority Intensive conference (May 7-9, 2014, Denver, CO)
I will be attending the Authority Intensive conference by Copyblogger.com in Denver.