All new articles will only be on my website starting April 1, 2014

As of April 1, 2014, all new articles and information will only be located on my website at www.ThinkOutsideTheSlide.com and items will not...

April 10 workshop in Toronto on turning Excel data into visuals for executive presentations

Professionals who present financial or operational data  say there are two key roadblocks to them using effective visuals instead of the spr...

Presentation Insight: Numbers only measure a story

Why do presenters use so many spreadsheets and tables of numbers in their presentations? The answer I get from participants in my workshops ...

3 Big Mistakes professionals make when presenting financial or operational data to executives

Do you present financial or operational data to executives? Make sure you aren't making these three mistakes.

Presentation Insight: Are your slides Re-Tweetable?

What does Twitter have to do with effective slides in your PowerPoint presentation? A lot more than you think. This occurred to me last week...

Presentation Insight: 3 Tips for making column graphs even clearer

In my workshops, I always recommend creating graphs in PowerPoint rather than copying them from Excel, because they are easier to edit and i...

Presentation Insight: Using Amazon Storybuilder to outline a presentation

Late last year Amazon Studios introduced a tool that will be helpful for presenters. Amazon Studios is a movie studio that helps produce fil...