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10 Tips for a Killer Presentation

Ian's Messy Desk

My three favourites: Don’t abuse your visuals – Usually your visuals are posters, charts, or even a PowerPoint presentation. There’s nothing worse than fighting the nervous butterflies in your stomach and seeing the glazed-eyes look of your audience as you slowly bore them to tears. Learn to tell stories.

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How to Manage the Rush Jobs

Ian's Messy Desk

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. When urgent requests come in from various sources and you’re already pressed for time, how do you handle them?

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How to Analyze Your Audience

Ian's Messy Desk

You don’t fire up PowerPoint and start creating slides. When Preparing for Public Speaking The boss e-mails and says you are going to be training employees on the features of the new software roll-out. What’s the first thing you do? You don’t build an outline of your presentation.

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Overcome Fear of Public Speaking

Ian's Messy Desk

When we are nervous we tend to read our speeches, focus on the Powerpoint notes and hang on to the lectern for dear life. Repeat this exercise until you feel the tension start to drain away. Get Out in Front Don’t hide behind your material. The audience wants to connect with you. Get our from behind the lectern.

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6 Tools to Help You Manage Large Projects with Local & Virtual.

Stephanie LH Calahan

They describe their tool: " Central Desktop for Office radically improves the way users collaborate on Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Work With Stephanie | Contact Copyright 2007-2010 Calahan Solutions, Inc. -- All Rights Reserved Want to use my content in your ezine, newsletter or blog?

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New Hire Overload

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 27 April, 2009 New Hire Overload I remember starting a new job at a law firm and on my first day I was handed a 3-inch white binder and told to read it. As I was going through the manual, I saw chapters on office procedures, confidentiality, health and safety, security and more. Dealing in real time.

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Top 5 Tips for Using Technology for Marketing

The Small Business Blog

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Use custom backgrounds and stock photography to make PowerPoint presentations more interesting for the viewer. Small Business Bootstrapping How to start your own small business with no or little money. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player.

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