Good presenters can overcome bad PowerPoints.  Can good PowerPoints overcome bad presenters?

Good presenters can overcome bad PowerPoints. Can good PowerPoints overcome bad presenters?

Mar. 4, 2011 by

Michael Alley has taught at Virginia Tech, the University of Texas, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Barcelona.  His book, The Craft of Scientific Presentations, is a significant contribution to the scientific community.  While Michael Alley’s experiments have

Make your PowerPoint headlines sentences

Make your PowerPoint headlines sentences

Mar. 3, 2011 by

Michael Alley has investigated an alternative to the default PowerPoint slide layout, which he terms the “assertion-evidence design.” This approach employs succinct sentence headlines (sentences that make an assertion) at the top of the slide.  Under it, in the main section

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