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Is Clip Art a Fireable Offense?: How to Use Illustrations Effectively
About 15 years ago, I worked in a department where my skip-level boss held a quarterly business review (QBR). In these QBRs, my peers and I presented our accomplishments for the last quarter and our plans for the next quarter. One quarter, one of my peers, “Mike”...
Death to the Category Header: How to Write Effective Slide Titles
The single most important thing you can do to improve your presentations is to use sentence titles that give the main point of each slide. Sentence Titles vs. Category Headers Let’s start with some definitions. Title: The words you put at the top of your slide....
The Golden, No Wait, Platinum Rule of Presentations: Assess Your Audience, Purpose, & Setting to Determine Your Design
While my wife, the Chemical Engineer, insists I’m not a real engineer, my Virginia Tech diplomas do have the words “Industrial Engineering” on them. And while I haven’t had the word “engineer” in my job title for the last 20 years, I still see the world through engineer-colored (safety?) glasses. So, when I started teaching presentation design 16 years ago …
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