UN-BULLET, ON-POINT

UN-BULLET, ON-POINT

Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes, organizing material is simply re-organizing material! This illumination from an earlier post on sequencing presentations comes back to us on this Wednesday with new light. Asking us to consider: what can we do with those lists that...
“Is data the new oil – or the new soil?”

“Is data the new oil – or the new soil?”

Reading Time: < 1 minutesTo close this week’s shares of enriching TED Talks that speak directly to those who are in the daily business of creating presentations, here’s a wonderful talk by data journalist David McCandless, delivered with characteristic...
“Why should you care?”

“Why should you care?”

Reading Time: < 1 minutesAbout the ‘3 Magic Ingredients’ of successful presentations? Of course you care – that is, if you believe, as we do, that “in through one ear, out through the other” is not the desired outcome of any...
“Follow the white spot!”

“Follow the white spot!”

Reading Time: < 1 minutesAnd to know what we mean, listen to this relevant (and irreverent) TED Talk on how to “Avoid death by PowerPoint”! Perfect dose of neural reactivation when it comes to avoiding the same-old same-old…. Watch it for laughs,...
Word to PowerPoint? Here’s how!

Word to PowerPoint? Here’s how!

Reading Time: < 1 minutesHas it ever happened that you’ve spent hours putting down your flow of thought in a Word document, only to realise that it would be much easier to present if you had had done it in PPT to begin with? If it has – it might be...
Have you used the right hook?

Have you used the right hook?

Reading Time: < 1 minutes“When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire,” says advertising executive David Ogilvy. You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial to grab viewers’ attention. The same applies to a presentation. Knowing how...