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Microsoft Powerpoint is what I consider the most powerful presentation tool available on the market and whilst there are competitors, it is pretty obvious that Microsoft Powerpoint ranks as the number one presentation tool in the world. Just look at the number of seminars, lectures or presentations you go to ...read more

There are two TV ads in the U.S. that are driving me crazy. Subway and Hardee’s both have ads running where the voice-over talks about a great Samich.

There is no such word as Samich. It is SANDWICH. The basic description is for some food product between two pieces of bread.

Where ...read more

What color was your baby-rattle? How big was your first bike? What picture do you see when you imagine your favorite work of art? When you think of your best friend, do you see his/her face? Our culture has a strong orientation to the visual; and, for many of us, ...read more

Ever wonder why everybody equates “PowerPoint” with “bullet points”? It’s because MicrosoftŽ made the default layout for new slides automatically create a bullet-point list of text.

Don’t be lured into the bullet point trap. Experiment with different slide layouts – especially with “Blank”—and with placing text and graphics in ...read more

If your speech is long, have a proper introduction and sub-headings.

Do research and know your content well.

Give your participants a copy of the presentation slides.

Ensure that the air-conditioned is not too cold nor the room lighting is too dim.

Don’t speak too fast and punctuate your speech with some quick anecdotes.

Humour ...read more

It is the attitude that since I now know all there is to know, you could not possibly add to my knowledge and who do you think you are to try? It is not only experience that creates this attitude, it can be money, a badge, a uniform, a title. ...read more

There are professionals with whom you can only have a professional experience unless you are being a total jerk. Enlightened ones who can handle the jerks we all deal with when we are not filling the role ourselves. Everything about them advertises professionalism. We all know them because we have ...read more

Many speakers can’t resist the temptation to use big words while giving a speech. Sometimes it is a conscious effort to appear to be smart, sometimes it is an unconscious impulse because that’s what a speaker thinks he or she is supposed to do in a so-called “formal” speech.

Either way, ...read more

Believe it or not, the answer is not NOTHING! Even though that is what most people who know me would expect me to say.

I actually think that there is a role for the typical text-filled, bullet point laden PowerPoint slide, only it isn’t to be used on the PowerPoint projection ...read more

What do you do if your boss gives you a thoroughly lousy PowerPoint presentation to deliver and it has 50 bullet points on each slide, complicated graphs, and long sentences everywhere?

Don’t panic! In this case, your PowerPoint slides are not going to help your presentation. But they don’t have to ...read more