Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 27, 2020

The post 5 Tips for Efficient PowerPoint Presentations appeared first on Ian's Messy Desk. Creating a PowerPoint presentation requires skill, knowledge and creativity. Here are five tips to help you create an engaging and fun PowerPoint presentation. All PowerPoint presentations should tell a narrative which includes a beginning, middle and end part. The initial part of the presentation should give a brief introduction of the problem. […].

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Dumb Little Man

JULY 14, 2020

By having a compelling presentation. An amazing presentation will make you look professional and confident. Taking time to perfect your presentation—which is both about your slides and your speech—will ensure your success, along with that amazing idea of yours. There are a few opinions on what makes a presentation great, but some things are universal. How to Make a Compelling Business Presentation. Inspire your audience to believe in what you present.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 16, 2017

At the Assist Conference a few weeks ago I did a session entitled ‘creating powerful presentations’ I wanted to share the slides and notes with you guys today… Here you go! This could be for a presentation in front of the board, for other members of staff or a pitch to win new clients. With that in mind, I’m going to give you my four top tips when creating presentations and then I will show you some tools that will help you create something a little different.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 16, 2017

At the Assist Conference a few weeks ago I did a session entitled ‘creating powerful presentations’ I wanted to share the slides and notes with you guys today… Here you go! This could be for a presentation in front of the board, for other members of staff or a pitch to win new clients. With that in mind, I’m going to give you my four top tips when creating presentations and then I will show you some tools that will help you create something a little different.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 29, 2019

The post 10 Tips for Effective Presentation Visuals appeared first on Ian's Messy Desk. One of the biggest problems in presentations is the overuse of visuals. A useful rule of thumb is one visual for every two minutes of presentation time. Use … Continue reading 10 Tips for Effective Presentation Visuals → You just finished reading 10 Tips for Effective Presentation Visuals !

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 6, 2013

I’ve also had some terrible secret santa presents (one year I got a bumper sticker… I didn’t own a car). The post Secret Santa presents appeared first on Practically Perfect PA. It is that time of year again – Christmas parties, sparkly dresses, an indescribable amount of mulled wine and a stash of minced pies to ward off unwanted hangovers.

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Clutter Coach

MARCH 22, 2018

Today’s podcast is about being present. The present is the place where you are okay. If you’re not in the present, you’re missing out. They were living in the present, enjoying each moment on the beach or each new discovery with loved ones. They were in the present, without their stuff, and they were fine. Too much in general takes up your time and energy and takes out of the present moment. by Subscribe: iTunes ? Stitcher ? Soundcloud

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This could be for a presentation in front of the board, for other members of staff or a pitch to win new clients. With that in mind, here is my ultimate guide to designing presentations. The best presentations I’ve seen are based around the speaker telling a story and interweaving it with the points they need to cover. Slides should be one of the last things that your Executive focuses on when creating a presentation. Learn from masters of presentation design.

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Dumb Little Man

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In almost every role in business there will come a time when you will need to make a presentation – but many of us fear that day. Yet being able to make a great presentation is one of the best ways of improving your career prospects. You may have a range of academic and professional qualifications at the highest level and be brilliant at your job, but if you can’t make a good presentation then you are holding yourself back.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 14, 2020

The post How to Prepare the Room for Your Speech or Presentation appeared first on Ian's Messy Desk. Think about the time invested in preparing a great speech: research, organization, practice, preparing a slide presentation, etc. Your presentation is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. You just finished reading How to Prepare the Room for Your Speech or Presentation ! The post How to Prepare the Room for Your Speech or Presentation appeared first on Ian's Messy Desk.

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Ian's Messy Desk

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

You would think in this day and age of Garr Reynold and Presentation Zen , Seth Godin and Really Bad PowerPoint or Cliff Atkinson and Beyond Bullet Points , there would be no excuse for poor quality PowerPoint presentations. Unfortunately, people continue to churn out ineffective presentations. Here are some links and resources for improving presentations: Joseph Sommerville provides a list of common presentation sins. Presentation Templates.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 2, 2013

He is quite happy to… Read the full article here: Presentations: Licensed to kill? Funny Business funny funny and true presentation A friend of mine is a Firearms Instructor with the police. Years of training and experience in the field eventually qualified him for the position. Naturally, he takes the work of licensing people to use guns very seriously. Being a meticulous trainer he never shuns the responsibility of the job.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Last year I wrote a blog which was full of secret santa present ideas for your office Christmas parties. I’ve also had some terrible secret santa presents (one year I got a bumper sticker… I didn’t own a car). The post Secret Santa presents appeared first on Practically Perfect PA. For those of you that are not celebrating Thanksgiving today I thought I would move very swiftly into our next seasonal celebration – Christmas!

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Jen Lawrence

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Know Your Audience : Before putting together a presentation, you need to identify the audience. Define Your Takeaways : Know exactly what you want the audience to take away from your presentation. Bonus points if you add a “Key Takeaways” slide to the end of the presentation! ” Your presentation doesn’t have to be “simple”, but you won’t struggle through a speech if you know what you intend to deliver.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 26, 2014

That’s why you need to be able to give an effective presentation about your small… Read the full article here: Top 5 Tips for Presenting Your Business on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG. Top 5 Tips pitching presentation You never know when you might have to pitch your business to someone at short notice. You could be on holiday and meet a potential investor by the pool or in the doctor’s surgery when you find a possible customer.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 20, 2014

They just released a presentation on The Most Important Small Business Trends in 2014.   For anyone interested in small businesses and/or small business trends the article and trend presentation are well worth looking at. Radius  is one of the more interesting big data startups.    Using web-crawling technology similar to Google's, they've amassed data on over 27 million U.S. small businesses.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Mike is a speaking expert who helps presenters find their voice on stage. I’ve known make for several years now and I look to him whenever I’m putting a talk or presentation together. I wanted to bring him to the program to not only share with you some of his best tactics and tips that will help you present your ideas and insights well, but also to remind me of what I need to do in order to do the same.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 6, 2016

This presentation will walk you through three ways to present data clearly and provide three tips to find ways to communicate data-based information for your Executive to get the longer view they need to make good business decisions. Some Executive Assistants are also not comfortable with presenting financial data, yet if you can learn that skill, it will be yet another value-add service that you can provide to your Executive to enable good decision making.

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Office Organization Success

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Talking of which… did you catch my first ever Livestream presentation yesterday? Phew… what a busy, busy week over here at Office Organization Success! Now that I’m slowly getting settled again it feels good to be busy and planning out my 2012. It was such fun, and I shared a TON of great content on how you can create your business plan in 3 simple steps. Don’t worry if you missed it… you can get access to the replay — for a limited time only!

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Meetingsbooker.com Presentation at Assist Travel from Practically Perfect PA. Room ex assist travel presentation for Practically Perfect PA from Practically Perfect PA. Unicorn events assist travel conference presentation from Practically Perfect PA. The post More presentations from Assist Travel 2016 appeared first on Practically Perfect PA.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Andrew Karpie's Online Work Arrangements Platforms  presentation does a great job of explaining the changing ways contingent workers are sourced, engaged and managed by hiring organizations.   The key slide in this description is below, but going through the entire presentation is well worth your time.  He explains all this in the presentation.

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Small Business CEO

JUNE 18, 2020

These days with so many tools available on the internet it is a prerequisite in the business world that you have the ability to prepare and then make a great presentation. You wouldn’t go to a job interview unprepared so why on earth would you make a business presentation without doing your homework? Here we are going to take a look at why planning for a presentation is so important. Management business presentation

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Dumb Little Man

JULY 5, 2016

Whether you are a teacher who wants to deliver an interesting lecture to students in the classroom, a marketer presenting in front of important customers, or the CEO of Apple trying to impress his fans at the yearly event, you all have the same challenge: how to present like a super star, in a way that your audience will never forget. A good presenter is a story teller. See Also: 5 Steps to Planning an Effective Presentation.

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Dumb Little Man

MARCH 24, 2014

“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.” Arthur Ashe Arthur Ashe was the first black tennis player ever selected for the United States Davis Cup team, and the only black player ever to win the men’s single titles at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. He had great style and often seemed supremely confident on and off the tennis court.

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Dumb Little Man

APRIL 1, 2013

But the great thing is – there is a very simple way to get out, one little tip that guides you back to, and helps you Remain in the Present. The easiest way to come back to the present is to cultivate Gratitude , to cultivate your abundance right now. You can stop getting caught up in the next future desire and be present with what is happening now. Yesterday I found myself thinking; ‘I need more money, I need to move out, I need more clothes, I need, I just need, goddamnit!’

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 16, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 10 Tips for a Killer Presentation Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on July 16, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. It’s easy to compound our innate fear of public speaking by delivering a really bad presentation. Neil Patel has posted 10 Tips for a Killer Presentation. My three favourites: Don’t abuse your visuals – Usually your visuals are posters, charts, or even a PowerPoint presentation.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 4, 2016

On February 4th the ITA* team bought our award winning Little Black Book to life by creating the Ultimate Venue Showcase – ITA* Presents Miniopoly. The post ITA* Presented Miniopoly: Wow what a showcase! In February our sponsors, ITA* hosted a wonderful venue showcase with a slight twist! I know that some of the Practically Perfect PA readers went along to the showcase and had a smashing time.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Mike is a speaking expert who helps presenters find their voice on stage. I’ve known make for several years now and I look to him whenever I’m putting a talk or presentation together. I wanted to bring him to the program to not only share with you some of his best tactics and tips that will help you present your ideas and insights well, but also to remind me of what I need to do in order to do the same.

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Dumb Little Man

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Do you know how to create a presentation that grabs your audience and keeps them hooked althroughout? It goes without saying that delivering a speech requires the ability to develop and present ideas. However, if you have to give a speech in public, it can cause speech anxiety which affects the quality of your presentation. Thus, you’d better have a card up your sleeve, and I’m talking about a well-organized presentation. Your presentation design matters.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

  The presentation has 73 slides covering all things mobile computing. Kudos to the author - Ben Evans - for creating this presentation and making available to the public. Slides: Mobile is Eating the World from Quartz provides a high-level yet in-depth set of slides showing how mobile computing is eclipsing desktop computing. But the slide below, which shows PC unit sales (light blue) versus smartphone and tablet sales (yellow), provides a nice summarye.

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Daily Writing Tips

JUNE 18, 2014

As one of our readers tells her students, writers should rejoice in the present participle because it is one of the rarities of English “rules”: one thing they can count on. Unlike its sibling the past participle, the present participle always has the same ending. Reminder: English verbs have five principal parts: Infinitive, Simple Present, Simple Past, Past Participle, and Present Participle. present perfect continuous).

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 3, 2015

In the 25 years since its launch, PowerPoint has become the most popular presentation aid, holding 95% of the presentation software market. Nowadays, most presentations are given with PowerPoint or similar digital supports. Despite their popularity, these presentations have also become synonymous with repetition and boredom. What many people don’t consider is that presentations don’t have to be given with the aid of technology.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 9, 2016

I’m preparing this post early but when you read this, I’ll have just given my presentation #OwnIt, How to Own Your Story and Win at Life at the Executive Secretary Live in London. Your present , step up and be accountable. The post Own Your Story: Past, Present and Future appeared first on Office Dynamics.

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Productivityist

JUNE 30, 2016

Be present and appreciate what you have at this point in your life. ” In Essentialism , Greg McKeown discusses how being present helps you prioritize and identify the most important tasks to work on right now: “When faced with so many tasks and obligations that you can’t figure out which to tackle, stop. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is most important this very second—not what’s most important tomorrow or even an hour from now.”

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Ryan is the founder of masterpresenting.com, a blog dedicated to creating courageous presenters. The task of giving a presentation can overwhelm the best of us. Then to avoid the fear of content, we will think about how we are going to present that info—what should the slides say, what should they look like, etc. How can you take a step back, create a presentation worth experiencing and not get overwhelmed in the process? The following is a guest post by Ryan McRae.

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Daily Writing Tips

APRIL 21, 2014

All three facts refer to past events, so present tense is definitely does not belong. Enter the present perfect: William Bradford Bishop Jr., Both was added (simple past) and has been added (present perfect) describe completed actions, but the present perfect describes a completed action that is still relevant in the present.

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On The Job

JANUARY 30, 2008

The last time you gave a presentation did you claim that the reason the audience dozed off was because of a stuffy room, too much lunch, or perhaps some weird sleep disorder? One of the biggest mistakes people make when putting together a presentation is that they sit down at their computer and begin writing a speech with long sentences and big words. Your presentation should offer solutions to any problems you present. This is key when setting up your presentation.

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Daily Writing Tips

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Because this is not an attributed direct quotation, it should be presented with nonrestrictive construction, indicating that it is merely one of multiple possible sayings: “The old saying ‘What gets rewarded gets done’ is applicable to any business process.”. Original post: 3 Common Mistakes When Presenting Quotations.

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45 Things

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

There's a reason so many people have their heads bowed during a presentation: They're either asleep or playing "Words With Friends" on their phones. But be honest with yourself: When was the last time you listened raptly to a presentation from beginning to end? I don't like to sit through presentations that are dull, overly complex or delivered by someone who could put the Energizer Bunny to sleep. Is the presentation over?

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Daily Writing Tips

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

For the first time, however, I realized that unfortunately, there’s a close analogy between the way many amateur writers present information and the way some well-meaning professionals (or other serious writers) do it. Original Post: How to Present Your Content. During a drive yesterday, I noticed again two ways that, in casual contexts, people are careless about their communication.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 7, 2016

  The conference presentations are also available (registration required). Lots of good stuff, including presentations on the changing nature of the economy and work, the important role community plays and lots of cool information on the leading edge of workplace design. A new coworking video was released last week at the GCUC coworking conference.    It's short (2:30), to the point and nicely covers the reasons coworking has become so popular.

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Daily Writing Tips

AUGUST 11, 2014

The etymological connection with complete helps in explaining the past perfect (had+past participle) but is not as helpful with the present perfect (has/have+past participle). The present perfect describes two main types of action: 1. A common ESL error is to use the present perfect with a specific time marker such as yesterday , last week , last year , in the morning , etc. The present perfect expresses past events that took place at some indefinite time.

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Productivityist

JUNE 26, 2015

The visual reminder is very beneficial to stay present and engaged, even when you are feeling unmotivated or mentally strained. The post The Zoomout Chart: How to Stay Present and Motivated appeared first on Productivityist. The following is a guest post from Luke Burkey. Luke is a student at Wheaton College and a software entrepreneur looking to solve pressing problems in the staffing industry. You can connect with him on Twitter @luke_burkey or via email.

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