In this podcast Jim asks why so many presentations that we see in the business world are so bad, and what can be done about it? He looks at a recent survey that asked senior managers in the UK’s most successful businesses for their views on presentations and analyses why they might be so negative…
In our Prezi Template for June, we’ve used the template to share our blog post How to Structure a Speech. As you can see, we’ve stayed with mainly text here, but of course there are many options! A photographic style is very popular, and here we’ve set the graphics on an aerial city shot. The idea behind…
A number of words came to mind when I was thinking about cogs and their relationship to business: Process, Movement, Efficiency, Co-operation and Inter-connectivity, are just a few of them. So it seemed a good idea all round, to use cogs in a presentation, to introduce interconnecting issues and moving an audience through a message in a…
Around the world, light-bulbs are associated with ‘ideas’. In our free Prezi template this month, we have used the light-bulb theme in a design to help you create a structured and well-organised Prezi presentation to pass on your ideas to your audience. We see many Prezi presentations which actually detract from the message they are supposed…
Let’s go global! As so many businesses, large or small, deal with others around the world, we thought a world map would be a great template to have in your Prezi collection. You can use our March template to present results, research, in fact, almost any subject that relates to what is happening, globally, in your area of…
Most of the time, expertise is of neutral value unless you are able to communicate what you know to decision makers and colleagues in a way that they can use. It is the ability to persuade, argue, influence, explain and even inspire others into action that creates value from your expertise. For every idea which…
Our February Prezi Template is all about displaying statistics in a simple, visual and memorable way. If you have lots of figures to pass on in your message, it’s really easy to end up with a dull and forgettable presentation. By using visual representations of numbers and percentages you immediately engage your audience. Here we’ve…
I’ve been blogging for about 8 years now. It’s been great fun. I’ve built a global reputation and it’s helped me build my consulting business into a truly international outfit- though we’re still a small company. In the early days of the web there was a generosity of spirit about bloggers, we were a community, that…
Remember that the first 2 minutes of a presentation – when you’re probably at your most nervous are also are the point at which you have the audience’s fullest attention, experienced presenters and salespeople learn how to use this ‘golden time’ to full effect, because they know that when all else is forgotten, the audience…