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Quarterly Business Review (QBR) comes calling after everything 3 months. It’s time for the manager to review the team’s performance in the last quarter. That means, aggregating the performance of all the sales reps and compare the last quarter numbers with previous quarters. But that’s just one half of an effective QBR.   The other […]

If we go by the old statistic, over 30 million presentations are given daily. Majority of them involve slides full of bullet points. Sad but true. At the same time, blogosphere is full of articles telling presenters to shun bullet points. There are many who are demanding PowerPoint be banned. It’s like blaming Word for […]

All of us have been in that zone of uncomfort- staring at the grey, content-ridden PowerPoint slide like a zombie, waiting for the Aha moment which does not come. If the deadline is close, you really cannot afford this artistic luxury to just sit and stare. PowerPoint is not going to take your content and […]

Title Slide is the most important slide in your presentation. It’s the introduction- your first impression. You want the audience to immediately sit straight, keep their phones away, open their eyes and ears and look forward to the next 20 minutes of your presentation.   If you are using a great, full screen visual on […]

“I love making lists,” said NO ONE EVER!   The only time you miss a list is when you go to a grocery store only to remember that you forgot the list of items at home. Wish presenters forgot their lists at home too!   Unfortunately, presenters, for some strange reason, love making lists. And […]

Gradients can be a tricky thing. If done right, they can make your slides look artistic and professional. If messed up, they can cause a disaster (read Death by PowerPoint).   We know plain white color can become a bit too boring. Solid colors are a safe bet. Rich, warm colors like orange can make […]

This post is second in the series of “Icons are the new bullet points”. Part 1 covered first 20 industries in alphabetical order A to E and their corresponding icons. Part 2 covers the remaining industries and their slides designed using icons.   All those who read our Icons are the new bullet points Part […]

This post summarizes the importance of using icons in presentation slides. Icons add visual appeal and make an otherwise text-heavy slide stand out. It applies to all presentation topics and industries. This post covers all industries starting from alphabet A to alphabet E and shows their respective icons. Locate your industry below and see how icons […]

PowerPoint 2013 has some amazing features that are no less than those offered by Photoshop and other image editing softwares. One such effect that I love the most personally is the ‘Merge Shapes’ feature that lets you create breathtaking effects.   One such effect (we gave it away in the the banner image of this […]

“Now at our studios we don’t write our stories, we DRAW them.” Walt Disney   Storyboards, one of the essential tools in making of animated movies, happens to be one of the most neglected practices in designing a PowerPoint presentation. The most common reason could be that many are not aware of this technique. If […]