Losing your power to PowerPoint

Losing your power to PowerPoint

Jan. 3, 2012 by

Don’t think that your slides are your presentation. They’re not. Your slides are like beads lying on a table in a big messy pile until you assemble them into a coherent order and string them into a beautiful necklace. I

Presenting up the chain of command

Presenting up the chain of command

Mar. 2, 2011 by

A bunch of great people (and great presenters) in big pharma told me one of their challenges is re-doing PowerPoint decks for presentations to different levels of management. When they get a PowerPoint deck done to their boss’s satisfaction (they happen to

Presenters should avoid this opening phrase

Presenters should avoid this opening phrase

Jan. 5, 2011 by

Many presenters begin their talks like this: “I’d like to take this opportunity to talk a little bit about…” Don’t do this.  First of all, what you would like to do at that particular moment is of considerably less interest