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Presentation Design - Dealing with the Prohibitor General When we see a slew of equally bad slides from different people in the same organization, we're fairly certain that the company has a slew of workers in a Presentation Regulations Department working feverishly to hamstring any attempt by an employee to make their slides understandable, much less compelling. Presentation Skills - The Rightly Timed Pause People only start listening when you stop talking. To put it another way, one of the very best things you can ever do while speaking is to NOT. Presentation Design - The Right Graph There are twelve different graph types available with PowerPoint 2000, but few of those styles work well in the low-resolution world of computer-based presentations. Presentation Design - Too Much Information In order to get your audience to buy in to your message, you must prepare and deliver it in a way consistent with adult learning theory. Presentation Skills - The 10-Second Rule Your main job as a presenter is to ensure that throughout your presentation, you and everyone in the audience remain on the same page, even the same wavelength, every step of the way. If your slides contain more information that it takes the average listener more than 10 seconds to comprehend, you can't possibly make this happen.