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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

Speaking to inspire

April 4, 2016 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

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Last Monday, I spoke to the Boca Raton Junior League. The topic was “From Death by PowerPoint to Life by PowerPoint: Speaking to Inspire.” I started with the story of how I was strongly criticized by a reader of a magazine for a slide I had used as a figure in an article I wrote […]

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The why of presentations–getting results

July 24, 2015 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

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To get the best results from a presentation, you need to think about the “why.” Why are you doing the presentation? If someone else assigned it to you, why? What is the goal of the presentation? There are lots of possible goals. Often, I see other presentation skills trainers make blanket statements that I know don’t […]

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