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Added for You - PowerPoint With Punch: Do You Know It When You See It? Four Rules to Enhance Your Presentation
I used to have the responsibility for interviewing and hiring employees when I was in marketing and advertising management jobs.Two questions I used to ask interviewees were:1) What strengths would you bring to this position?2) Tell me one of your weaknesses.StrengthsMost people had no problem pointing out their strengths. After all, they were trying to get the job so they were eager to point out what they had to offer.WeaknessesThe weaknesses question on the other hand caught many
In keeping with these essential principles, here are four rules to follow to improve the quality of your Powe
Your Slogan is the “Headline” for Your BusinessTell people in a short phrase or sentence what you want them to know or remember about your business. The best ones conjure up a strong mental image, that will be forever linked with you in their memories. A little wit, humor, insight, unusual (yet relevant) spin goes a long way toward making it stick.If you don’t stand out during the famous first impression, (or in a later contact) there won’t be anything for them to recall later. They’ll draw a blank – which means they don’t feel any con
All of us want to create and present great PowerPoint shows, but how do we know if we have achieved our goal? In trying to define quality in PowerPoint we are tempted to echo the famous 1964 statement of Justice Potter Stewart regarding what constitutes obscenity: "I know it when I see it." A substantial degree of subjectivity persists in any attempt to be definitive, yet we can all agree on a few essentials: your slides must be readable, clear, and memorable for PowerPoint to be effective.
In keeping with these essential principles, here are four rules to follow to improve the quality of your Power
In all honesty, probably both! LEAN and Six Sigma are perfect partners and provide great synergy and complement each other nicely. Often I meet people who are unsure which approach to take and therefore delay in doing either. This means that they are losing valuable time in being able to make the changes to improve organisational performance. It is possible to start on one track and, along the way, find that your focus changes as you learn more about your processes and systems.Looking at a process or system to decide which approach to use isn
In keeping with these essential principles, here are four rules to follow to improve the quality of your Powe
Now here is a function that has got the hackles of nearly everyone up at some time or the other. For all of us have had a bad experience with customer service.Let me show you what I mean.We do not have that item. Up front it is understood that a store has the right to stock and sell what it chooses. What is frustrating is when you go to favorite large store, or a large discount store, or any full service store, who give the impression that they have whatever you want, and you go in looking for a particular item you need, and hear those
In keeping with these essential principles, here are four rules to follow to improve the quality of your Powe
When I'm asked to enter an organization and help people talk things out, I'm often asked to fix things like this:Those two just can't get along. Would you see if you can help them get past their differences with one another. They don't seem to be very good communicators.One of our senior teams is in a real rut since a new VP came on board nine months ago. I don't think they like him and they're acting out. We could really use some clearing the air.We're trying to move the organization forward and we've go
In keeping with these essential principles, here are four rules to follow to improve the quality of your Powe
We must honor our Founding Fathers of course but lets not over do the fact too much, because we are intelligent people too and we have ultimately some of the most brilliant minds on the Planet. Lets be honest; The Founding Fathers were good but they were Not so Great that we should bow down and not consider our current civilization and where we must go into the future.You see, History Needs a Reality Check and thus I propose a complete review and study of all that we are and all that we have built and trust ourselves to take this country to t
In keeping with these essential principles, here are four rules to follow to improve the quality of your PowerPoint.
1. Remember less is more
One of the most common mistakes people make in designing their own PowerPoints is trying to get too much information on a single slide. Here's a good rule of thumb: if your presentation consisted of a written-out script, consider each paragraph of that script to be a separate slide. Then, summarize that paragraph into three or four lines, omitting all of the articles ("a" or "the") and as many forms as possible of the verb "to be."
For example, let's say the summary
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