PowerPoint Slides That Work!: Show + Tell for Grownups - Paperback

by Steven B. Levy (Author)

This book cannot solve all of your presentation problems. If you mumble, it will not serve as a microphone. If you don't know your subject, it will not boost your expertise. If you're running late, it will not be your time machine. But most presenters face a simpler problem. Their slides stink. The on-screen material undercuts their goals, in both overt and subtle ways. This book helps you fix the main problem with PowerPoint and similar programs. It's not the software. It's not even the speaker. It's the slides The PowerPoint Quick-Fix Slide Guide is a tool as revolutionary as PowerPoint itself, one that can make a dramatic difference in creating an effective presentation. The potent concept of One Idea per Slide plus the book's three simple core techniques can make your presentations better immediately. You don't need to become a graphic artist, a mesmerizing speaker, or anything other than what you already are: knowledgeable about your subject. This groundbreaking book will show you how to quickly turn awful, bullet-point-laden, sleep-inducing slides - ordinary slides - into successful, easy-to-create power tools that support the most important element of your presentation: you. If you want to deliver presentations that matter, that inform and convince and even move the audience, dig in.

Author Biography

Steven B. Levy is a business leader, public speaker, project manager, author, and the CEO of Lexician, which provides training, coaching, and consulting on presentation, project management, and leadership. Previously, he headed Microsoft's legal technology / operations department, led two product groups, co-headed application development in IT, and managed multi-million-dollar consulting projects in his seventeen years at the company. He specialized in innovation, leadership, customer and client focus, and team effectiveness. His unique and practical approach to leadership, people and project management, and workplace effectiveness is based on thirty-five years of managing projects and leading businesses on three continents. His work has made him a highly requested speaker, trainer, and seminar leader. His previous books include the groundbreaking Legal Project Management: Control Costs, Meet Schedules, Manage Risks, and Maintain Sanity, the thought-provoking The Off Switch: Discovering Your Work-Work Balance, and the introduction to the LPM field, Legal Project Management Field Guide: Five Tools for Busy Professionals. He divides his time among Seattle, the San Juan Islands of Washington State, and cities around the globe helping clients.