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3 techniques for putting less text on your slides

October 18, 2021 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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You probably know that creating slides with lots of text on them is a sure sign of “Death by PowerPoint.” Even if your content is valuable and interesting, the text makes it LOOK boring. Also, research has shown that images attract more attention. So the solution is almost always to replace text with images and […]

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Filed Under: Design principles, Images, Shapes & text boxes Tagged With: how to have less text on a slide, remove text from slides

Presenting remotely: Avoid the 8 deadly sins of webinars

March 30, 2020 by Ellen Finkelstein 11 Comments

Note: I originally wrote this in 2013 but I’m updating this during the Coronavirus pandemic because more people are presenting online now. Webinars are a powerful way to communicate from afar. They have opened up many possibilities for marketing, meetings, and training. But only if you do webinars right. If you simply show slides with the […]

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Filed Under: Delivery, Design principles, Events, Training Tagged With: webinars

Think BIG to create high-impact presentations

November 3, 2019 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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You want your presentations to have an impact on your audience — change them, move them to action, inspire them. One way to do this is to think BIG, both in terms of your concepts and your visuals. Big ideas help to inspire people. Plus, the brain learns more easily when new knowledge is connected […]

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Filed Under: Content, Design principles, Images, Slide layout Tagged With: big concepts, big ideas, big images, high-impact slides, inspire, think big

It’s about the audience

September 20, 2019 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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You’re always presenting for your audience. Your presentation shouldn’t be about you. What type of presentation will give your audience the most value? Ask yourself… What do they need and want? Your content needs to be relevant to the needs and wants of your audience. Sometimes that’s hard to know but if you can survey […]

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Filed Under: Content, Design principles, Images, Training Tagged With: attention, audience, audience-centered, audience-centered presentations, call to action, image superiority, impact, inspire, PowerPoint, presentations, remember, retention, understanding

The flipped presentation: A different way to present and create handouts

June 22, 2019 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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Let’s say that you’re giving a presentation that requires you to provide a lot of detailed information to your audience. Perhaps you’re Training supervisors about vacation, sick day, and leave of absence policies Doing a project update that requires you to explain the data you collected during your research Providing employees with a list of […]

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Filed Under: Content, Delivery, Design principles Tagged With: details, handouts, Notes page, notes pane, technical presentations

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