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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.

Reduce the words in each point; Issue #283 April 2, 2013

In my latest book, Present It So They Get It, I provide five strategies for reducing the information in your presentation down to just what the audience needs to know. Information overload is the single biggest issue in presentations today, and in my workshops, this section on reducing information overload is always a popular one…

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Raise the average two slides at a time; Issue #282 March 19, 2013

At the end of my workshops, I ask the participants if they have practical ideas that they can implement immediately to improve the effectiveness of their slides. Without exception, they all say that they have plenty of ideas they can use. In fact, the challenge is that they feel overwhelmed with everything they want to…

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The Globe and Mail March 18, 2013

Dave’s advice on how to proofread your slides was featured in The Globe and Mail here.

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Full-day workshop for pension plan staff (March 11, 2014, Toronto, ON)

Customized full-day workshop for financial and other staff covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.

Testing your slides; Issue #281 March 5, 2013

What does the audience think when they see a spelling error or other mistake on your slides? They start to wonder if you really took the time to look at your slides before you presented and they question how much you care about delivering a great presentation for them. A lot of the mistakes I…

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