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Black History Month Stats for your next PowerPoint
Posted by TJ Walker in PowerPoint, Public Speaking Skills, tip of the day on December 9, 2011
This graphic displaces some statistics about Black History Month that are both interesting and laid out nicely.
Consider how they graphically displayed these figures. You might consider using the same techniques in your next presentation.
One Slide – One Image
Posted by TJ Walker in PowerPoint, Training Community on August 29, 2011
This is an example of a chart that I would suggest NOT putting in your PowerPoint slides.
It shows both the average salary and employment of Accountants in the US over the past 8 years. As a handout the graphic works, but flash this image on the screen and people will be decoding the chart while you are trying to explain something else.
Slide Show App for ipad/iphone Review
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Keynote Speaking, PowerPoint, Technology, Video on March 17, 2011
ProPrompter App Review for ipad/iphone
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Keynote Speaking, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Technology, Video on March 17, 2011
ipad/ipad Presentation Timer App Review
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Keynote Speaking, Media, PowerPoint, Technology, Video on March 17, 2011
How do I Keep my Audience Awake?
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Help, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Video on March 15, 2011
How you can make a financial presentation more interesting so that you can hold on to the audience’s attention and not put them to sleep.
Using Visuals in Financial Presentations
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Help, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Video on March 15, 2011
It is always important to have visuals in any presentation to enhance audience understanding and participation.
What is the Disadvantage of Using PowerPoint?
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Help, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Video on March 14, 2011
PowerPoint can certainly make or break any presentation. So its always important to use it as a presentation tool, not as the presentation itself. The disadvantage of PowerPoint comes when people misuse the tool and completely bore their audience.
FORBES.com – “Making The Best Of A Bad Situation”
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training on March 10, 2011
If you work for a big corporation, sooner or later, someone is going to ask you to deliver their PowerPoint Presentation. And he or she will demand that you don’t change a single element of the presentation (and they can get away with it because they are your boss).
Here’s the problem: the slide show you are given is horrible! Each slide is dense with row after row of numbers, bullet points are strewn about generously on each page and complex graphs are squeezed in four to a slide. In short, you are asked to deliver a PowerPoint slide from hell.
Making The Best Of A Bad Situation: PowerPoint Advice
Posted by TJ Walker in PowerPoint on March 6, 2011
If you work for a big corporation, sooner or later, someone is going to ask you to deliver their PowerPoint Presentation. And he or she will demand that you don’t change a single element of the presentation (and they can get away with it because they are your boss).
Here’s the problem: the slide show you are given is horrible! Each slide is dense with row after row of numbers, bullet points are strewn about generously on each page and complex graphs are squeezed in four to a slide. In short, you are asked to deliver a PowerPoint slide from hell.
Four Ways to Data Dump
Posted by TJ Walker in PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Training Community on March 5, 2011
What do you do if you have an incredibly large amount of data that you must present to an audience, but you are limited to a strict time amount of, say 10-30 minutes?
By far, the absolute worst mistake you could make is to do the following: cram every fact you can find into a bullet point and then on a PowerPoint and then race through that PowerPoint in front of your audience. You can guarantee that no one will remember anything you say if you try this technique (though you will be in good company, since this is what most bad-to-average presenters do).
Pot Luck PowerPoint
Posted by TJ Walker in PowerPoint, Video on March 3, 2011
What should you do if your colleagues send you PowerPoint slides to use in your presentation and the slides are bad?
SPEAKING TIP OF THE DAY: Cliches work great with the media but make you sound unintelligent when delivering a speech.
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Pitching, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers on March 3, 2011
SPEAKING TIP OF THE DAY: Cliche?s work great with the media but make you sound unintelligent when delivering a speech.
FORBES.com: PowerPoint Is NOT a TelePrompTer
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers on March 2, 2011
One of the biggest misconceptions about PowerPoint is that it can and should be used as a TelePrompTer for a speaker. A TelePrompTer is a machine that newscasters use to read their scripts while looking into the camera. Read more from TJ at FORBES.com
Breaking a Bad Habit — Presentation Advice
Posted by TJ Walker in PowerPoint, Public Speaking Skills on March 1, 2011
You have the best of intentions. You give speech after speech using strong visuals, compelling examples and riveting stories to make your points come alive. But then, slowly, your speaking skills start to dissolve. The next thing you know, you’ve become a boring hack, just like everyone else.
How did it happen?
Public Speaking Tip of the Day: The #1 problem you risk when speaking isn’t that you bomb or embarrass yourself. The #1 problem is that you are perfectly competent and no one remembers anything you said.
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, public relations, Public Speaking Skills on February 24, 2011
Public Speaking Tip of the Day: The #1 problem you risk when speaking isn’t that you bomb or embarrass yourself. The #1 problem is that you are perfectly competent and no one remembers anything you said.
Post a comment about your Worst Public Speaking Experience Ever and you will win access to my $300 Online Presentation Training School
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Pitching, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, Public Speaking Skills, Voice, Workplace, Worst Speaker of the Day on February 23, 2011
That’s right, if you post a summary of your worst public speaking experience right here, I will send you an all-access pass to my online, interactive public speaking course—no strings attached. I’d like to hear about your horror stories.
Presentation training advice: Age is nothing but a number. Everyones goal should be the same as a speaker.
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, Public Speaking Skills on February 18, 2011
Presentation training advice: Age is nothing but a number. Whether you are a Fortune 500 company CEO or a junior high school student preparing for a school speech your goals should be the same. As a speaker you want your audience to walk away thinking of you as memorable speaker, who was engaging and fully understood the key points you were trying to get across.
FORBES.com: Dare To Be Different -Public speaking analysis
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, Public Speaking Skills on February 18, 2011
There is great comfort in mediocrity when it comes to public speaking. It is easy to joke around with your colleagues about how you “hate” speaking in public and that you “just want to get through it.”
To read the rest of TJ’s thoughts visit FORBES.com
What are examples of business jargon or marketing speak that writers and presenters should avoid? -presentation training
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Best Speaker of the Day, blogging, Body Language, CEOs/Financial, Communications, Pitching, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, tip of the day, Training Community, Video, Voice, Workplace, Worst Speaker of the Day on February 17, 2011
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What are examples of business jargon that writers and presenters should avoid? -QUORA questions
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