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10 Tips for a Killer Presentation

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. My three favourites: Don’t abuse your visuals – Usually your visuals are posters, charts, or even a PowerPoint presentation. Thanks for visiting! It’s easy to compound our innate fear of public speaking by delivering a really bad presentation. Learn to tell stories.

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How to Manage the Rush Jobs

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Fifteen minutes later another manager comes by looking for last-minute help with a PowerPoint presentation. For example: typing a 40-slide PowerPoint presentation: two hours, provided all the material is complete. Thanks for visiting!

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How to Analyze Your Audience

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. You don’t fire up PowerPoint and start creating slides. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Thanks for visiting! What’s the first thing you do? Comments No comments yet.

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How to Use Evernote: 22 Ways

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Document Storage - When I receive a document (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, or PDF) that I’ll need again, I forward it to Evernote. Blogging - Evernote for blogging is great because it keeps all blog-related ideas together in one place. Whenever you want to save something blog-related, put it in here.

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Overcome Fear of Public Speaking

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. When we are nervous we tend to read our speeches, focus on the Powerpoint notes and hang on to the lectern for dear life. Thanks for visiting! Mark Twain said, “ There are two types of public speakers: those who are afraid and those who are liars. ”