Michael Alley has taught at Virginia Tech, the University of Texas, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Barcelona. His book, The Craft of Scientific Presentations, is a significant contribution to the scientific community. While Michael Alley’s experiments have… Read More »Good presenters can overcome bad PowerPoints. Can good PowerPoints overcome bad presenters?
Michael Alley has investigated an alternative to the default PowerPoint slide layout, which he terms the “assertion-evidence design.” This approach employs succinct sentence headlines (sentences that make an assertion) at the top of the slide. Under it, in the main section… Read More »Make your PowerPoint headlines sentences
A bunch of great people (and great presenters) in big pharma told me one of their challenges is re-doing PowerPoint decks for presentations to different levels of management. When they get a PowerPoint deck done to their boss’s satisfaction (they happen to… Read More »Presenting up the chain of command
I just witnessed several clients reading scripts. There was something very unsatisfying about the experience for me. They lacked life and expression. They didn’t appear to mean what they were saying. Yet scripts are often useful and necessary. So what… Read More »Reading a speech vs. giving a presentation
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