October 2011
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Free Exploring Your Vision for Your Work Webinars... →
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The atomic method of creating a Powerpoint... →
I’m always on the lookout for different methods to help people design better presentations. Different situations call for different types of presentations and it never hurts to try different techniques and then incorporate aspects that work for you. There’s no one right answer.
My latest find was Seth Godin’s atomic method:
The typical person speaks 10 or 12 sentences a...
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Interviews are about both of you →
Too often people go into interviews and I would suggest reviews or evaluations (once they have a job) without giving thought to what they want to ask. Rather than having a conversation these events turn into tests. The interviewer is placed in the position of authority and mastery and the interviewee is the student, trying to give all of the right answers, without stopping to consider that he or...
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Make sure your PowerPoint does not look like...
I recently had the opportunity to hear Jan Schultink present a webinar as part of the Outstanding Presentations Workshop series. Among his many great points was a statement to the effect of the one above: Make sure your PowerPoint does not look like PowerPoint.
It struck me that in this simple statement lived so much of what is wrong with many presentation visuals. The second you look at it you...
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Why, why, why, why, why?
There’s a lot to be learned from kids. And asking why, sometimes to the point of exhaustion (ours, not theirs) is one of the lessons. Too often we don’t get all of the necessary information because we stop short of asking why. Or we don’t get through all of the layers of the problem because we didn’t ask why one more time.
Some people use the Five Whys method of analysis...
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Think different but stick to your core values →
For those interested in presenting, Steve Jobs has always been a role model. Books and articles have been written about his presentation style. His product launches have had countless views on YouTube. But in one of his recent blog posts on Presentation Zen, Garr Reynolds has a link to a very different presentation Steve Jobs gave back in 1997. It was an internal company presentation before the...
