PRESENTATION MAGIC!

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PRESENTATION MAGIC!

• Secrets from the Powerpoint Guru

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Checklist to Victory

• Use your template! Dont just make random text
  boxes!
• Loading up a single slide with too much
  text/graphics/graphs makes us all look stupid
• Use one font maybe two
• When it doubt, split content across several
  slides
• Simplify, delete, consolidate and delete again
• Just line everything up!

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Perspective Nests

• Use your Template

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Scrambled
Sunnyside
Over-Easy
Bennidict
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Does this make you feel comfortable?
Source McKaplan-Reid II, 2006, p.342-9
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Collect the Material

• Survey your office look for content that
  supports your main thesis
• Twigs, branches, ribbons, copy paper, coffee
  filters, elastic bands, etc.
• Scan your Outlook Inbox for Inspiration
• Perhaps a co-worker has summed it up better than
  you could have
• Dry pitch it to a low status fellow employee
• Go out to the loading dock, the cafeteria
  kitchen, the maintenance room, the front security
  kiosk

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Plan for Yesterday
Salmon Arm
Cutlass Supreme
Quadra
Yellow Duck
Source Victoria / Rees SWM 97
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Idea Zits

• Do Not Overload

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Leadership Academy
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Inspiration Ammunition

• Anywhere, anytime, you can steal
• Look around the office, it might surprise you
  what you can take
• No one will tell on you
• Trouble, like the coffee machine, is a stainless
  steel umbilical cord
• You are not a farm hand you do not milk cows
  for a living

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Focus Puddles

• Use One Font, Maybe Two

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Life Advice
Scar Zone
Odor Barrier
Bikini Face
High Gear
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Decision Thieves

• Simplify and Consolidate

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Sleep Close to the Washroom
CHOICES YOU CAN MAKE
Source Yam Slim Doub 257d-843b
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All You Need to Remember
Source Lorem Ipsum 12994-4
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Moving Forward

• They will not get away with this
• You will make them pay
• If it was up to you, it would be up to you
• No one will stand in your way
• What do they know anyway?
• Everyone not you is Pure Idiot
• Be Professional, always

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Failure Fireworks

• Just Line Everything Up

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Room with these people
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The Wizard of PPT

• Cubby Master Slide Greenhurst
• The Powerpoint Guru
• Igniting the presentation world for more than
  half a decade, The Guru has weaved his unique
  brand of magic throughout the B2B, advertising,
  medical, financial and corporate sectors. RFPs,
  new product launches, conference speeches and
  more are all fair game when The Guru is
  unleashed upon your copy decks. Never lose a
  pitch again!
• YOU CAN BELIEVE IN MAGIC AGAIN!

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Thank You