This summer one of my clients asked me how to make stand-alone presentations effective. They often have to send their PowerPoint file to a prospective client without ever getting the opportunity to deliver the presentation in person or via web meeting. Since PowerPoint slides are supposed to be used to enhance the speaker’s message and…
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.
ICABC Course: Creating an Online Presence For Your Practice (November 8, 2013; Vancouver, BC)
Today, your image online is what will win or lose business for you. Prospects search for accounting professionals online and if they don’t find you, they will never contact you. When they find you, they will check you out online and, based on what they read and see, they will make the decision on whether…
ICABC course: How to Present Financial Data Effectively using PowerPoint (November 7, 2013, 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…
Alberta CAs Course: Creating an Online Presence For Your Practice (November 5, 2013; Edmonton, AB)
Today, your image online is what will win or lose business for you. Prospects search for accounting professionals online and if they don’t find you, they will never contact you. When they find you, they will check you out online and, based on what they read and see, they will make the decision on whether…
Alberta CAs Course: Creating an Online Presence For Your Practice (November 4, 2013; Calgary, AB)
Today, your image online is what will win or lose business for you. Prospects search for accounting professionals online and if they don’t find you, they will never contact you. When they find you, they will check you out online and, based on what they read and see, they will make the decision on whether…
Don’t start with an apology; Issue #273 October 30 2012
It happens at too many conferences every day. A speaker starts with an apology, and by doing so, sets the wrong tone for their presentation. Apologies destroy your credibility with the audience and put you in the wrong frame of mind, which leads you to not deliver the presentation you had hoped. I see it…
Business 2 Community website October 18, 2012
Dave is quoted and his Color Contrast Calculator is featured in an article on the Business2Community website here.
Presenting legal/regulatory quotes; Issue #272 October 16, 2012
Yesterday I spoke to a conference of real estate and legal professionals about how to create more effective PowerPoint slides when giving training sessions. They commonly show quotes or regulations from legal documents in their training sessions. Often presenters end up just reading the text of a paragraph because there doesn’t seem to be any…
Presentation Xpert Newsletter October 10, 2012
Presentation Xpert newsletter republished Dave’s article on repurposing your PowerPoint presentation as an online video. The article is on their site here.
Full-day workshop for finance professionals (October 10, 2013, Toronto, ON)
Customized full-day workshop for financial professionals covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.