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Give Your Presentation Skills a Dazzling Quality
Today, I took my key insights from John Boitnott’s article for Entrepreneur on how to impress your boss with your dazzling and creative presentation skills. Embed from Getty Images Metaphors are a great tactic to paint a clear image of your presentation subject in your audiences’ minds, and add a twist of humor…
How Quality Management Can Integrate Technical and Human Systems
John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog, discusses the best approach to integrating technical quality and human management systems within your company. See below for my main insights from the article. Embed from Getty Images The ideal situation is to mix the technical tools which companies bring in (control charts or…
The Art of a Non-Sucky Presentation
Read Melanie Pinola’s take from Lifehacker on ways to master creating presentations that don’t suck, I lifted some key insights together for you here. Embed from Getty Images Presentation going on forever? Feel like you haven’t achieved anything—either as presenter or as the audience member? All signs of a sucky presentation Simplify your slides;…
DOWNTIME: What Every Business Wants to Avoid
Embed from Getty Images DOWNTIME; a lean six sigma acronym to help avoid eight business wastes that may be costing your company money Though they’re intended for the manufacturing industry, the acronyms can be applied to any service based industry to avoid profit loss The wastes themselves are anything that don’t add value to your…
Make Presentations Great With Eye-Catching Visuals
Embed from Getty Images Get your audience hooked by beginning with visuals that add an element of mystery to the opening of your presentation Don’t give everything away with your chosen visual though; it should offer worth to your presentation but not be overly self-explanatory Use viusals to add life, they don’t just have…