PowerPoint, presentation design, and eLearning articles, including:

• PowerPoint design

In a world that clamours for your attention at every verse end, who needs another slide deck filled with bullet points and stock images? Your presentation audiences certainly don’t. In this step-by-step tutorial learn how to create a dolly zoom effect to help your audience zero in on what's important.

• PowerPoint design / Presentation skills / Visual communication

So you have to make a dissertation defence presentation. Or maybe you’re deciding if you want that to be a part of your final assessment. Over the course of this article, we’ll look at how your dissertation defence presentation can be one of the best tools in your arsenal when it comes to showcasing your work, and how you can make yours stand out from the crowd.

• PowerPoint design / PowerPoint productivity

How many slide masters do you have in your PowerPoint template? How many should you have? And is it one of those things I should even care about? Learn the answers to all those questions in more.

• Sales presentations / Sales messaging

Levelling up your presentations doesn't always have to come from training courses and text books. In this article learn some principles of best practice communication from the animal world, courtesy of sensory ecology.

• Presentation skills / Sales presentations / Sales messaging

Coordinating a group to make and deliver a presentation in a corporate or academic environment can be challenging. Discover how to craft a group presentation that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats, and your team out of the ER.

• Effective eLearning

Often corporate learning isn't designed to stick around. It hangs out in your short-term memory for a little while, but fades into mist with the passage of time. We’ve been reading Make it Stick, a book on the science of successful learning, and we've been talking to authors, Peter Brown, Henry (Roddy) Roediger III, and Mark McDaniel, about how you can apply the principles of sticky learning to the corporate world.

• PowerPoint productivity

Sometimes PowerPoint feels a bit finnicky, right? Lots of features and functions, but where is it all hiding? Surely there's a better way. You're right. There is a better way, and by applying three changes to your workflow you can shave hours off your slide creation time - no exaggeration.

• Sales presentations / Industry insights

B2B sales is broken. Buyers don't want to work with sellers, but also don't have confident in their own team's ability to make a successful purchase. Enter the Framemaking approach. Dig into insights from Adamson and Schmidt's 'The Framemaking Sale', and learn what on earth you can do with your pitch deck as a result

• Presentation skills / Sales presentations

Your presentation date is just around the corner. Whilst your slides are the star of the show, you - the presenter - kind of feel like tree number 3 from your primary school play (IYKYK). Discover your natural presenter persona and learn how to step into the PowerPoint limelight with these presentation techniques* *with no mention of imagining your audience naked, guaranteed.

• PowerPoint design / PowerPoint productivity

A PowerPoint template is the only brand element you put in the hands of the whole organisation – regardless of computer literacy, or design skill: it has to be robust enough so that it can’t be broken, but strong enough to carry your brand voice into every meeting, or leave-behind, or proposal it gets used for. Read on for a list of the essential elements every PowerPoint template needs to have.