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7
Communicating
8
Management insight
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Datebook
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MPI Meeting Day April 2005 Edition
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When should you use PowerPoint? BY DAVE PARADI, MBA
I
was speaking to a group of keynote speakers at a professional speakers convention recently on the topic of PowerPoint usage. Many people found the ideas I shared helpful, so I thought I would share them with you. As I explained to the group, I think you can see almost any business-oriented presentation as being on a continuum, where one end is a fully inspirational presentation and the other end is a totally informational presentation. One of the key distinctions along the
line between the two ends is how many points you want the audience to remember. A purely inspirational presentation, like a pep talk you would give your team, has very few points you need the audience to remember, perhaps only one key point. A highly informational presentation, like a training program, can have many points that you want the audience to remember in order to improve their job performance.
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