Presentations Should Be Persuasive

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Most presentations should persuade. The interactive nature of persuasion tends to help an audience engage with the presenter and the presentation’s content. Even when the main purpose of the presentation is simply to convey information, it is often useful to at least consider the persuasive model rather than the informative model. 

In this video clip, David Zehren recounts a client’s war story to remind us to consider whether our presentation should use the persuasive model.

 

Helping Techs Make Better Presentations Webinar Part 1 {video slides}

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Can your technical people talk to your money people?

Here’s the first part of a webinar David Zehren recently presented to the International Institute of Analytics (IIA).

Special challenges await technical presenters who must address their less technically-minded counterparts. In this first part, David outlines the four major challenges technical presenters face and he begins to outline tips for overcoming those challenges.

ZEHREN♦FRIEDMAN offers a hands-on Presentation Skills course designed to help technical presenters make better presentations and communicate more effectively: “HT3M2: Helping Techs Present to Mere Mortals”.

Contact us for more information about how we help techs talk to mere mortals.

Why Bad PowerPoint Visuals Happen and How to Make Them Better Webinar Part 2 {video slides}

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Why Bad PowerPoint Visuals Happen and How to Make Them Better

Here’s the second part of a webinar David Zehren recently presented to the International Institute of Analytics (IIA). The first part is here in case you missed it.

Special challenges await technical presenters who must address their less technically-minded counterparts. In this second part, David highlights a major cause of bad PowerPoint visuals—espeically the kinds of bad visuals that frequently plague more technical presentations face. He also offers a simple technique for avoiding this common cause of bad PowerPoint visuals.

ZEHREN♦FRIEDMAN offers a hands-on Presentation Skills course designed to help technical presenters make better presentations and communicate more effectively: “HT3M2: Helping Techs Present to Mere Mortals”.

Contact us for more information about how we help techs talk to mere mortals.

10 Tips for Creating Better PowerPoint Slides Webinar Part 3 {video slides}

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10 Tips for Creating Better PowerPoint Slides and Using Your Deck More Effectively

Here's part 3 of a webinar David Zehren recently presented to the International Institute of Analytics (IIA) on "Helping Techs Talk to Mere Mortals."

In this segment, David Zehren outlines 10 tips for making better PowerPoint slides and for using them more effectively—especially in more technically-oriented presentations.

Special challenges await technical presenters who must address their less technically-minded counterparts. ZEHREN♦FRIEDMAN offers a hands-on Presentation Skills course designed to help technical presenters make better presentations and communicate more effectively: "Helping Techs Talk to Mere Mortals."

 Contact us for more information about how we help techs talk to mere mortals.

Simple Ways to Improve Bad, Data-Dense PowerPoint Slides Webinar Part 1 {video slides}

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Simple Ways to Improve Bad, Data-Dense PowerPoint Slides

Here’s the fourth part of a webinar David Zehren recently presented to the International Institute of Analytics (IIA).

ZEHREN♦FRIEDMAN offers a hands-on Presentation Skills course designed to help technical presenters make better presentations and communicate more effectively: “HT3M2: Helping Techs Present to Mere Mortals”.

Contact us for more information about how we help techs talk to mere mortals.