Recruitment Presentation Decks

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Bringing top level talent into your organization can be a challenge. When recruiting in groups companies often resort to PowerPoint presentations. If developed properly your recruitment presentation can bring the talent on board.  The developer of the presentation must strike a delicate balance between pushing the organizations values and philosophy and most importantly, articulating whats in this for the potential recruited audience. If the audience sense’s the organization is spending the time to present how good they are, versus how interested we are in you and your integration into our culture, then the top talent goes away and you are left with mediocre recruits.

Thinking about this in another way.  Look at every professional sports team and how important talent is to them. If they have talent they win. When companies recruit they need to put their best foot forward with a compelling presentation and get that talent

At Presentation Partners the Message is the Focus

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Kiosk PowerPoint Presentations

Exhibiting in today’s trade shows especially against the larger players in your space requires multimedia. There are usually not enough workers in your booth to handle the flood of prospects that occasionally hit at the same time. Then there is the issue of attracting them into the booth in the first place. A highly visual animated kiosk PowerPoint presentation can be a great tool to draw in the prospects. These presentations like in the example shown our usually low count slides with simplistic messages where the viewing prospect does not need to see the first slide order to understand the message on the fifth slide. In order to accomplish this you need messaging work to compliment the graphic capability. At Presentation Partners the message is the focus.

Differentiation Can Be Vital to a Successful Outcome

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Human Resource Benefits PowerPoint Presentations

Companies are reeling with both hiring and retaining employees. Couple that with rising healthcare cost and HR staffs have their hands full. If your company sells to the HR space, you need to realize that HR personnel are bombarded by opportunities to solve the adoption issues of their employees.  Differentiation has always been important is sales, but in a hyper-competitive market differentiation can be vital to a successful outcome. If your core sales PowerPoint presentation deck does not have a compelling message developed by marketing and sales professionals, coupled with modern professional graphics that help augment that message, then you run the risk of blending into the crowd…a relatively large crowd.

Crafting a compelling message is what we do best, but it certainly helps to have a team of talented presentation designers like the ones who created the graphics above on the presentation example for our client websinc.

Tips for a Pharmaceutical Presentation

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Metaphoric simplicity can apply to all presentation types, including pharmaceutical presentations. If you look at the above sample you won’t see a lot of content in terms of words on the actual slide.  The words come from the presenter engaging the audience in a conversational tone. As an audience member you can grasp the simplistic visual priority that graphically exist on these slides, and then simply relax and connect with the presenter as they make their point.  The audience is not staring at a complex slide full of text, arrows and statistics trying to figure out what it all means.

The most successful presentations are the conversational presentations, as if you were sitting down and having a cup of coffee with someone in the audience. A conversational presentation starts with simplicity.

Using a Presentation Book for Effective Quarterly Business Reviews

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Large enterprise organizations are often used to quarterly business reviews whether internal or external with customers. The example above is a presentation book designed for print and binding. By the nature of the subject the material is data driven.  However, showing your customer 78 pages of data that laced with excruciating detail leaves them looking for the quickest route to escape. We recommend breaking huge amounts of data into a macro and a micro view. This segregation serves to keep the audience better engaged and helps translate what the data actually means to the audience.

Molto ben fatto! (“very well done”… in Italian)

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Investor presentations are a serious attempt to raise capital. In many ways the future success of the company may depend on those investor pitches. This presentation had the color and pop from our client located in Rome Italy to go along with great reasoning for investor participation. Because we have a process that was designed to work remotely with all of our clients whether the client is in Rome Georgia or Rome Italy the end result is the same.  The most efficient method to craft a message for any type of presentation is right here at Presentation Partners.

Tips for Creating a Financial Presentation with Pizzazz

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Financial presentations by nature have to focus on the numbers, data and trends’, considering the audience wants numbers. Visual enhancement is completely acceptable as long as it’s not overdone.  Over done would be graphics that interfere with the data, or if you had a fifteen slide financial deck and thirteen slides had professionally developed graphics. That would be just too much for an audience that wants numbers.  Perhaps less than 1/3 of the total number of slides could have eye catching graphics to keep the audience interested visually….remember the audience wants numbers, but doesn’t mind a little bit of entertainment.

Tips for a Technical Presentation

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We often hear prospects say “My presentation is technical in nature, can you help us?”  Technical presentations like all presentations have to take into account the demographics of who is in the audience. If senior level is in the audience we need to integrate some high level strategic slides to engage them. What if the audience is technical mid-level?  Should we drill them with mounds of technical data?  At some point those technical  mid-level audience members will need to relate the message they heard to senior management, so lets give them something that integrates strategic messaging along with the technical mounds of data. In this case you can have both the steak and the sizzle!

Tips for a Conference Presentation

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Presenting to an organization at a conference can be a great way to drive sales for your organization or if it is your own group, rally the troops. The downside is that if your presentation doesn’t cut it, the troops are not motivated, or the members of the association have little or no interest in your services.

Creating a story line that is compelling is crucial in this presentation opportunity.  For the above example we collaborated and developed a compelling story around a topic usually considered boring…accounting. Like most businesses our client had something of value to share with the audience association members. Using a story that revolved around aviation and the compelling idea of a how a few degrees in aviation can be tragic, as well as in your business we interwove a story to keep the audience engaged, as well as educated.

Know Your Audience

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At Presentation Partners the audience is one of three elements; the presenter, the presentation, and the audience. However the audience is the focus and ultimately what determines whether you fail or succeed with your presentation. While most presenters spend very little time on this element, we strive to understand the audience and design both the message and graphics to the audience. As in the sample above the audience are biology experts with a law degree, then your presentation would need to require enough content to satisfy a detailed structured mind-set.

Most importantly know what your desired outcome is and the audience will likely respond to the information that you provided. This requires thinking as much about your audience and audience type as you do about splashing your information on a fancy slide. The audience will determine your failure or success. Give the audience their due worth.