Create a professional PowerPoint presentation on your (business) topic that resonates with the audience and stays in their minds. Perfect your presentation speech to match! In this section, we are sharing many helpful and effective tips & tricks for the creation of your presentation and the associated speech with you. Benefit from the tips of our PowerPoint experience of 25 years!
Here you will find tips on how to prepare your presentation in a target-oriented way, all the way to effective tips on how to create and hold presentations…
For a varied and at the same time professional presentation speech – whether on site in front of an audience or online – use targeted techniques, such as rhetoric, to underline your statements and achieve your goals. Also, use features of PowerPoint to deliver your presentation skillfully. Use the PowerPoint speaker view, or a time display to keep track of the remaining presentation time.
Skillfully assemble your slides and heed our tips to impress your audience with a professional presentation and a perfected speech and achieve your goals.
Did you know that employees and freelancers spend an average of 100 hours a year creating presentations and working with PowerPoint? This is the finding of a cross-industry study by the market research firm, INNOFACT. The study makes it abundantly clear: presentations – whether for trade fairs, lectures or pitches – are an integral part…
Social media is everywhere these days and its influence continues to grow. Companies are beginning to understand the importance of being represented on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. To maximize their online presence, organizations should look to integrate social media into their presentations. We’ll show you a few clever ways to do…
Modern life is full of distractions, it’s no wonder our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. Presenters experience this first hand; most audiences struggle to stay focused during longer presentations. But there are a few tricks and techniques you can use to help them stay on track and avoid boredom. Participation and interaction prevent…
Email lists are a great way for companies to promote their brand and engage with potential customers. These lists contain contacts who are interested in a company’s products or services, making them a valuable asset when launching new products. Marketing and sales need to keep updating existing email and, ideally, grow them. We’ll discuss several…
Most organisations nowadays are looking for ways of improving their business reporting processes. Besides faster reporting, more organisations are interested in reliable and transparent information. These reports offer essential specific information regarding the status of business. A well-presented report has the ability to not only attract new investors but also help to keep employees aware…
Bad news is an everyday part of the business. Over the course of your career, you will have to share not-so-good news with your teammates or employees. Having the right skills to sensitively communicate declining revenues, pay cuts, pending layoffs and the like, is essential. In this blog post, we’ll explain how to present bad…
Opening the floor to audience questions is a great way to close out a presentation and offers so many advantages. It gives you the opportunity to make one-on-one contact with your audience, clear up any ambiguities and provide even more in-depth knowledge. In addition, it shows your commitment and your interest in the audience’s concerns….
PowerPoint has a bad reputation with many users and is often dismissed as amateurish. They say PowerPoint presentations look bad, are boring, confusing and distract from the essentials. One prominent exponent of this view is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who last April issued a general ban on PowerPoint in his companies. Instead, his employees must…
As the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. This holds true for presentations. The very first line of the first slide is so important – it can make or break your presentation. Despite knowing this, most presenters turn to the same old openings such as “Good evening, my…
How does an audience’s reading behavior affect your presentation? Being aware of what attracts an audience’s eye allows you to optimize your presentation’s layout and ensures your slides have maximum impact. Great content is the first step to grabbing your audience’s attention. But you can’t expect an audience to listen to, and most importantly, understand…