The Pareto principle, also known as the 80-20 rule, states that, in many situations, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. For example, Microsoft noted that by fixing the top 20% of the most reported bugs, 80% of the errors and crashes would be eliminated. In The 4-Hour Workweek, by [...]
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Olivia Mitchell recently presented in the Outstanding Presentations Workshop and recommended that everyone use a planner to organize content. (You can get her e-book with the planner here.) In her presentation (and the planner), Olivia recommended answering the following questions that your audience will have about your topic: Why? What? How? For example, Olivia [...] A couple of stories have recently come out about the use of PowerPoint in the military. A subscriber sent me this one: I recently saw a guy who quartered one slide and then quartered the quarters, allowing him to put 16 charts on one slide. Needless to say, it looked like an aerial view [...] Garr Reynolds, author of Presentationzen, has a list of top 10 tips on his personal site that many people haven’t seen. They’re worth reading. Top Ten Slide Tips Top Ten Delivery Tips Top Ten Organization & Preparation Tips Ellen Finkelstein can train you or the presenters in your organization to create high-impact, engaging, professional presentations for training, sales, business, or education. For more information, please click here. I’ve written on this topic before (see the links below), but it’s important enough to cover again. This past weekend I went to a conference. I heard some great content, but a lot of it was either over my head or irrelevant to my needs. From what the audience said (a number were beginners), [...] Do you give sales presentations? Perhaps you travel to prospective clients‘ offices and pitch a product or service. You may give webinars online to sell your wares. Another scenario: You invite people to your office and give them a presentation on what you offer. Many products and services are sold via presentations. Your success [...] A subscriber recently asked me, “I am currently trying to figure out if it is possible to hover over text and have an image pop up when I hover over the text, like you do on most websites these days. Do you know if this is possible in PowerPoint?” You’ve probably seen websites with [...] Story from Karen Carleton, MEd, MS http://ca.linkedin.com/in/karencarleton I was with a consulting company and some hunting outfitters were giving presentations to natural resources board to back up their claims disputing government research that animal populations were dwindling, to maintain their businesses and livelihood (or delay closure of their businesses). One guy (a crazed rogue [...] I just found a great article by Sandi Mann in The Guardian, called, “Why do 60% of students find their lectures boring? (Dr. Sandi Mann is senior lecturer in occupational psychology at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK.) You can probably guess what’s coming. “One of the main contributors to student boredom [...] I had to share this comment from a discussion going on in the LinkedIn Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group group. There have been many great comments, but I got permission from Dr. William Brantley to share this one: “The worst PowerPoint presentation I ever attended was given by a senior professor in the [...] |
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