The way we present ideas at work is pretty flawed
Let’s reduce how knee-jerk the process can sometimes be. Continue Reading
Presentations
Can you challenge the status quo at work?
It’s not about rolling over and playing dead for the execs, but it does involve a bit of strategy and logic. Continue Reading
Business case: Personalize the arguments
“No time, Lance! I’m building out my slide deck, baby! Check out these transitions!” Continue Reading
How to present better: Get excited
Written about this a bunch of times before, because I think it’s amazing how infrequently we discuss the idea of better, more effective presentations — especially when you consider that if you want to get an idea/point/concept across to someone,… Continue Reading
How to present better: Do your slides last
Personally hate PowerPoint and think it’s mostly totally worthless for presentations — and also think we get a lot of things wrong about presentations in general, including but not limited to: How we teach them How we focus them so… Continue Reading
Stop chasing bullet points
Here’s what I mean by the headline: the idea of “chasing bullet points” means that, instead of doing actual work that moves forward the organizational purpose or the bottom line in some way, you’re looking for stats/numbers/some other concept that… Continue Reading
Big Data: You need to actually be able to explain things to people. We forget that step.
That right there is a data visualization Florence Nightingale did over 100 years ago; I found it in this post from Kellogg (Northwestern), which is an awesome article about visualizing data. I won’t go super deep into this — you… Continue Reading
How to be better at presentations and communications: A.I.M.
If you really distill work — or, frankly, your entire life — down to a couple of core tenets, I would say one you might arrive at is “The ability to develop ideas and present them to others.” That’s the… Continue Reading