This tip is so simple (and so much fun) that you might find yourself smiling when you use it. Why Are So Many People’s Slide Decks Lackluster? One Reason: No TRANSITIONS! Most people use PowerPoint in a truly feeble way — and I’m not talking about the overcrowded slides, incomprehensible charts, irrelevant data, and disorganized images that we see so often Read More
Tech: PowerPoint, Skype, eMail, Phone Calls, Letters, and Social Media
Public Speaking Tip 70: Use Pictures In Your Slides (Even Simple, Silly Ones are Worth Way More than 1000 Words!)
I love my Mac, and when I need help with it, I call IvanExpert — a New York tech firm that specializes in home and small business users, and makes house calls! So I was thrilled when IvanExpert co-owners Ivan Drucker and Caroline Green asked me to help them with a presentation they were making at Read More
Public Speaking Tip 63: Keep Your PowerPoint Short, Sweet, and Simple
Yeah, yeah, PowerPoint sucks. This has become a kind of business meme in the last few years, but come on, folks: Why hate on PowerPoint just because people use it badly. (And by “PowerPoint,” I mean Keynote and Prezi, too.) PowerPoint is just a tool. I mean, would you hate on a hammer because you saw somebody drive a Read More
Public Speaking on Skype: Tips to Show Up Well on Video Call Platforms
My first experience of speaking to an audience via Skype was a 2011 conversation on BNET about Anne Loehr’s and my then-new book, Managing the Unmanageable: How to Motivate Even the Most Unruly Employee. Our interview illustrated how rustic Skype’s audio and video capabilities were at the time. But fortunately… Skype: You Don’t Need Perfection Read More
Public Speaking Tip 24: Write an Email that Gets Read
Public speaking can take lots of different forms — and today, those include what you share on social media, and even the humble email message. How many emails do you receive each day? 50? 100? 200? Those numbers aren’t unusual — and everyone you write to is struggling with that same deluge of (mostly irrelevant) Read More