PowerPoint is a useful tool. It’s easy to master. It’s a good way to give your presentations structure. And it’s an effective way to present your audience with informative visuals, like photographs, tables, and charts. But be honest – how do you really feel when you arrive at a presentation and the speaker starts playing(…)
Probably every professional has been at the receiving end of a poor presentation. Think of the conversations we have afterwards around the water cooler. “Wasn’t that just awful” we whine, often talking about all the mistakes the presenter made. The most common mistake of all is when the presenters yield to the temptation to tell the(…)
Most people are familiar with the saying that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Some people know that the expression is associated with Lord Acton (1834 – 1902). But few people know anything about the contex or that the quotation isn’t entirely accurate. The complete remark was “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power(…)
Unfortunately, we’ve all been subjected to a couple (or more) dull, verbose, and graphically painful PowerPoint presentations that would make anyone happily poke her eyes out with a dull pencil instead of sitting through the 100+ slides. Here’s how you can insert audio into your PowerPoint presentation to make things more interesting. (Please note: These instructions are(…)
Before PowerPoint was developed, most presentations were made within departments that shared common knowledge sets. With a changing work environment in the 60s and 70s came a need to clearly communicate between departments. A simple, illustrated guide was needed to organize and share information. The outcome was the presentation medium of 35mm slides, followed by less-expensive(…)
