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…. Read more »
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Tips for a Technical Presentation
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… Read more »
Tips for a Conference Presentation
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… Read more »
Know Your Audience
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… Read more »
Kiosk Presentations
Presentations at a kiosk or self read presentations require strong visuals and quick transition movement from slide to slide to keep the audience reading. Words have to be minimized and to the point as well as augmented by the visuals. There is no time to for the audience to figure out the connection, it must… Read more »
Brand Consistency
If your work for a large enterprise you more than likely have brand guidelines. You also more than likely have an organization with a high volume of “sales decks” circulating around. Most of these decks are cherry picked with a few slides from different decks of coworkers who might have successfully tackled a sub-topic. Therefore… Read more »
Sell the Sizzle, Not the Steak!
The best presentations leave the audience wanting more. Usually more does not entail more bullets or more charts. “More” entails engagement and discussion because what was offered appears to be interesting to the audience, to have struck a chord. So if brevity rules the day…go ahead and ask your audience how they feel about brevity…how… Read more »
Tribute to Steve Jobs(1955-2011)
What can we thank Steve Jobs for? A few cool electronic gadgets in our repertoire perhaps or more. Visit the Apple website, or the Apple store, or closely look at your Apple products and you will start to notice design. The simplicity of straight forward clean design, with ample room for white space and a… Read more »
Avoid Using PowerPoint as a Crutch, Remember You Are in Charge
When we have landed the opportunity to present, especially in the sales environment, often we realize that our pitch deck is inadequate. Upon setting out to develop our revised, revamped, newly designed presentation we encounter by mistake a philosophy that turns the PowerPoint deck into the holy grail of the opportunity meeting. A presentation utilizing… Read more »
Understanding the Value of Charts
We all need the occasional chart to relate data and information to our audience. Most charts usually fail because they over-present the data and do not offer a clear message. We have been educated in the business world and our specific discipline but most of us have never been educated in how to effectively present… Read more »
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