Aug 02, 2020
4 guides to help you become a PowerPoint pro
There is nothing more painfully boring than sitting through a presentation that is delivered alongside dozens of identically-themed PowerPoint slides filled with just [...]
Jul 16, 2020
Recording Screen Action in PowerPoint 2013
PowerPoint 2013 now has a feature that enables you to take a full-motion screen capture. This could be very useful to demonstrate a process as part of the presentation [...]
Jun 17, 2020
How to give a killer presentation or…not let your presentation kill you!
In preparing for a recent training I gave on ‘Conducting Webinars,’ I came across a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article written by TED Talks’ Curator, Chris Anderson [...]
Jun 09, 2020
Recording screen action in PowerPoint 2013
PowerPoint 2013 now has a feature that enables you to take a full-motion screen capture. This could be very useful to demonstrate a process as part of the presentation [...]
May 27, 2021
The science of presenting (Part 3)
This is the third and final part of the Science of Presenting series. Make sure you read parts one and two. I hope you enjoy them. Logic The audience or learner must [...]
Nov 05, 2020
Killer Fillers
In the past three weeks, I have had two separate people in training who, on numerous occasions, said “to be honest” in front of what they were about to share. Both were [...]
Nov 04, 2020
Duplicate animations with ease using PowerPoint's Animation Painter
Adding animations to our PowerPoint presentations can add visual interest and help emphasise information being presented. It can also be quite time consuming getting [...]
Sep 18, 2020
Action buttons and hyperlinks in PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint makes it easy for users to navigate within their presentations or link objects and shapes to files, programs or videos. The two easiest ways of [...]
Aug 12, 2020
The enhanced Presenter View in PowerPoint 2013
There are two ways that you can run a slideshow in Microsoft PowerPoint. One way is to run it with the same image on both the projected screen and the presenter’s [...]
Jul 09, 2020
Ace your next presentation with lessons from these tennis pros
Nineteen year old Australian tennis player, Nick Kyrgios, has been lauded in recent times for his confident win at Wimbledon over world number one, Rafael Nadal. Kyrgios [...]
Jul 02, 2020
A truly botched presentation…but Samsung are happy!
If we strip back the word “presentations,” we get to the verb to present or to give, and of course, that is what we do in a presentation; we give [...]
Mar 31, 2021
Enhance your presentations with PowerPoint's Slide Zoom
One of the more useful features that has been introduced with Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 is the new Slide Zoom feature available in Presenter View. If you are trying [...]
Feb 26, 2021
No wonder my sales were down; I thought AIDA was an Italian Opera!
Along time ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, before I retrained in psych, I used to be in commercial real estate sales. I failed dismally at my first attempt, which [...]
