As PowerPoint reaches its 20th birthday, Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal reflects on our love/hate relationship with “one of the most elegant, most influential and most groaned-about pieces of software in the history of computers”: While PowerPoint has… Read More »PowerPoint Presentation Skills: PowerPoint’s 20th Birthday
As PowerPoint reaches its 20th birthday, Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal reflects on our love/hate relationship with “one of the most elegant, most influential and most groaned-about pieces of software in the history of computers”: While PowerPoint has… Read More »PowerPoint Presentation Skills: PowerPoint’s 20th Birthday
People make fun of engineers–ribbing them for their introversion and poor communication skills. I don’t feel that way. Whenever I work with them on their technical and scientific presentations, I find them to be eager and open to new ideas. … Read More »Technical and Scientific Presentations: Engineering Better Talks
Last week I went to the third and last day of a meeting for engineers. After lunch, one of their senior leaders stood up and summarized every presentation they had experienced during the past three days. As he began to speak… Read More »Public Speaking: A Stunning Moment of Authenticity
I recently bought a book called The Craft of Scientific Presentations by Michael Alley, which begins with a quote from Isaac Asimov. On March 21, 1949, I attended a lecture given by Linus Pauling… That talk was the best talk… Read More »Scientific Presentations
I just finished an engagement developing a presentation to introduce a major Human Resources initiative across a global company. When I arrived, the client had close to 50 bullet powerpoint slides. When I left this morning, he had eleven slides, and… Read More »PowerPoint Presentation Skills: Features to Benefits