Make Your Slide Presentations Remarkable Using a Needs Assessment
by Adele Sommers
Around the world today, the stakes haven’t ever been higher for undertaking many worthy endeavors. We’re all looking for better ways to inform our audiences and inspire them to act!
Whenever we plan to give a presentation either in front of a live audience or online, we might decide to create a slide show to amplify our message, using Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Apple® Keynote, or Google® Presentations software.
Yet as much as we struggle to finesse our slide presentations, they don’t necessarily produce the desired effects. Our audiences may not “get” our important points, or they might not do what we intend as a result.
Speak Up & Make Money! – September 2009
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I’ve decided to try something new here, and start getting my newsletter out on a regular basis again. Yep … I really am. I know, I know … I keep coming back and saying that it’s been such a long time since my last issue, but I really do know how important it is to be consistent with both blog posts and sending out a newsletter, and while I’ve been so much more consistent with my blog posts, it hasn’t been the same with my newsletter. So … my pledge to you (here I am putting myself on the spot and making myself accountable to all of you) is to start sending Speak Up & Make Money out every other month again. That said …
Follow The Energy
by Karen Susman
In the movie, All the President’s Men, when Bob Woodward tries to get information from Deep Throat about Watergate, Deep Throat answers, “Follow the money.” I take that to mean if you want to find out information, follow the money trail. Follow where and how money is being spent.
Recently, I’ve been following the energy in an effort to find out where and how my energy is being spent. Goal: to learn what fuels my mojo. I love what I do. I could speak to groups and organizations and companies seven days a week. I could train people to speak or manage stress or network or communicate straight eight days a week. I could coach/consult people who want to be at ease communicating with humans before and after every gig. These activities energize me. Yet I hear the words, “I’m so tired” coming out of my mouth daily.
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Fee integrity, what’s up with that!
by Jane Atkinson
My client is a talented, hilarious speaker.
She worked her butt off for years doing the crappy speaking gigs for $250 in bad venues. She paid her dues.
Now she’s earning $2500 per engagement but her local bureau wants to list her at $4000. (Cause she’s good.)
But here’s the rub, if a client called her directly she would not feel comfortable quoting $4K. She’s just not $4K confident yet. So what does she do?
Easy peasy.
Seven Major Mistakes to Avoid in Your Next Electronic Slide Presentation
by Adele Sommers
Tired of boring business presentations? You’re in good company! Many people don’t know what’s required to create a truly effective electronic slide show, and are equally turned off by viewing the ones that other people produce.
What are some of the most common complaints you hear about the presentations you typically attend, whether for business, technical, scientific, social, philanthropic, or academic purposes? How about…
“They’re usually too bullet-heavy.”- “The text is often difficult to decipher.”
- “People tend to read from their slides.”
- “There’s too much information presented.”
- “The material is dull and unimaginative!”
Our dilemma is that we have an epidemic — a pandemic, if you will — of meeting attendees who have become tired of being glazed over by this antiquated style of presentation.
This article explains seven major mistakes and a set of corresponding remedies that can apply to any presentation you create with slide software, whether it’s Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Apple® Keynote, or the *free* Google® Presentations software.
