Sweating the Details » presentations http://www.dockerydesign.com/blog Tyler Dockery discusses graphic design, web design, business, networking, and Dockery Design as it services Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:16:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Presentations: 2 Minute Training #10: Don’t Read Your Presentation Off The Screen http://www.dockerydesign.com/blog/index.php/presentations-2-minute-training-10-dont-read-your-presentation-off-the-screen/ http://www.dockerydesign.com/blog/index.php/presentations-2-minute-training-10-dont-read-your-presentation-off-the-screen/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:06:20 +0000 dockerydesigns http://www.dockerydesign.com/blog/?p=421

Presentations: 2 Minute Training #10: Don’t Read Your Presentation Off The Screen

So many people read directly off the screen when they are presenting, that Tyler Dockery starts to wonder if the BAD PRESENTATION fairy came to school on a day when he was sick.

“I have sat through many presentations— students work, teacher work, Department

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Presentations: 2 Minute Training #8: Don’t Use Powerpoint

To many business people, and many presenters, Powerpoint is the end-all, be-all of the presentation world. So why does Tyler Dockery advise most business people not to use Powerpoint, and in fact, never to use Powerpoint for professional presentations? Powerpoint is an accessible program, and many people use it

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Presentations: 2 Minute Training #7: Write Cues On Your Presentation Pieces

You practiced your presentation, and you helped to design every single piece of it. You worked for days and nights to make sure that you have a well-oiled machine of a presentation team. So, when you pull out the 3rd presentation piece, and you pull

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Presentations: 2 Minute Training #4: Bring Nametag Cards To The Presentation

You know your presentation backwards and forwards. You practiced and tested. The team that will be receiving your presentation knows the names and faces of your entire team (well, maybe not), but let me ask you this: Do you and the members of your team

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Presentations: 2 Minute Training #2: Bring Sugary Snacks

When presenting to a client for an extended period of time (45 minutes or longer), you may start to notice that even the most lively of presentations will start to lose people’s attention. There’s simply no way around it, shy of requiring them to do major physical activities.

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Presentations: 2 Minute Training #1: Present First

As a business decisionmaker, you are probably considering multiple offers, and presenting multiple strategies all the time. And if you are anything like most researcher or decisionmakers, you are always comparing every offer

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