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…
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.
102 Tips to Communicate More Effectively Using PowerPoint
You create and deliver presentations regularly. Your success depends on those presentations being effective. You use PowerPoint, but know that you could be more effective. You don’t have time to attend a course and you sure don’t want a thick technical manual. You’d love to find practical, proven tips that you can apply right away to make a difference in your next presentation. I’ve got just what you are looking for.
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Article by Carmine Gallo in FOrbes
The Globe and Mail July 2, 2012
Dave’s tip on helping color blind people understand a dashboard slide easier was featured in The Globe and Mail here (July 2, 2012)
Presentation Xpert Newsletter June 12, 2012
Dave’s article on cutting your preparation time with pre-made slides was published in the Presentation Xpert newsletter here.
The Visual Slide Revolution
You’ve had enough of the overloaded text slides that most presenters use. You’ve seen a few people use visuals instead of bullet paragraphs and it is so much more effective. But you figure that you’d need some graphic design training and thousands of dollars of software and equipment to create visuals for your presentations.
Not so.
There is an easy five step method that will show you how to create persuasive visuals using the software you already have. Get ready to join The Visual Slide Revolution.
Full-day workshop for manufacturing company (May 15, 2013, London, 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.
The Globe and Mail May 14, 2012
Dave’s tip on using standard fonts so that your text does not get garbled when the presentation is sent to someone else was featured in The Globe and Mail here (May 14, 2012)
Full-day workshop for sales engineers (April 22, 2013, Kansas City, MO)
Customized full-day workshop for sales engineers covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.