Creating Better PowerPoint Slide Decks, Faster

Better PowerPoint

PowerPoint can be a very powerful visual aid and important tool for training… if it’s done well. Creating a better PowerPoint Slide Deck is about organizing your thoughts before you even open PowerPoint on your computer.

Trainer’s Approach to Effective PowerPoint

A trainer's approach to PowerPoint with Mike Parkinson

At Endurance Learning we talk a lot about the appropriate use of PowerPoint. This conversation with Mike Parkinson gets into how to create engaging and effective PowerPoint presentation.

Avoid Bad Slides with Good Process

Great presentation slides help a presentation look and feel more “slick”, but beauty is only skin deep. Presenters need a better way to organize their message.

Alternatives to Bullet Points

PowerPoint default formatting is begging you to use bullet points in your presentation. The thing about bullet points is that they’re not attractive. They’re not visually stimulating. But they’re set up as a default way to organize information on your slides, which makes them very easy to use. If you or someone you know is […]

What Would You Do If This Happened In Your Training Session?

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The clock struck 1:00pm and it was time for my presentation to begin. That’s when the first of four text messages arrived on my phone. All four messages began with the same two words: “Oh no!” My friends and co-workers had heard what was happening in my breakout room and they began to offer their […]

9 Trends in Presentation Skills (And Most of Them Aren’t Good!)

A week ago, Litmos’ Brent Schlenker used Google Trends to ask: “Why is instructional design trending downward… since 2004?” According to the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies’ Top 100 Tools for Learning, Google Search was ranked as the #5 tool used around the world for learning in 2014. It seems like Google search trends should […]

Instead of PowerPoint… dance?

If you’ve read my blog posts for a while, you know I have some strong opinions about PowerPoint. In short, I think it’s a powerful tool that is all too often poorly used in presentations, wasting people’s time and turning them more cynical to training and presentations in general. A while back, I proposed 10 […]

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