Yale’s Edward Tufte, a preeminent specialist in data visualization, vehemently criticized PowerPoint presentations, noting that it “promotes a cognitive style that disrupts and trivializes evidence” (Tufte, 2003). From experience, thinking about the dozens of presentations I sat in over the past…
If 50% of success is showing up, having an effective presentation gets you at least an additional 25%. (And, of course, a good delivery accounts for the other 75%.) When it comes to good slide decks, we can all learn…
Chances are that you’ll have to present material. A slide deck can be two things: a visual support for your message during the presentation and a stand-alone record for it that can be distributed. During the presentation, slides are a visual…
Most of us use PowerPoint as a business communication tool, so good slide design is essential. Here are a few ideas to prepare high-impact slides. Present one idea per slide. Your slide is your unit of reasoning and argumentation; have…
So you’re starting a new problem-solving project. Start developing your final presentation on the first day of your project. That will help you get to a better solution and get there more easily. Summarize your findings in a presentation form…
This entry is part of a multi-post case study. So you’ve identified potential solutions to reduce the duration of your cable negotiations. You’ve also identified which analysis you needed to do to verify that these were indeed valid solutions. Suppose that your…
In business communication, your primary objective is to transfer information effectively. This is done best by expressing your main idea first. Here we’ll talk about presentations, but the concepts are equally applicable to emails, voicemails, memos and all other means…