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PowerPoint Surgery: How to create presentation slides that make your message stick
Sometimes when things get really bad, surgery is required. Bad Powerpoint* (and boring presentations) are everywhere! it appears that they have almost become the norm and very few people seem to want to talk about it. It doesn't have to be that way. Bad presentations are costly. They can cost money, jobs and reputations, don't let your slides ruin your pitch. In this funny, cut-to-the-chase and down-to-earth book professional speaker Lee Jackson will wean you, and your workplace off bad slides forever. He'll also teach you how good presentation slides can work for you and help you stand out from the crowd. Using these simple techniques we can kill death by bullet-point once and for all. JOIN THE FIGHT TODAY! (N.B. This book is a colour paperback and illustrated with full colour slides.) " Lee takes a clever and refreshing approach to presentation mastery. " Nancy Duarte - author of 'Slide: ology', 'Resonate' and principal of Duarte (creators of the slides/visuals for Academy Award-winning film, 'An Inconvenient Truth') " Powerpoint Surgery is an invaluable resource...and I highly recommend it... " Jeremy Waite - Head of Social Strategy, Adobe EMEA " Lee Jackson takes PowerPoint presentations from boring to brilliant. " Alan Stevens FPSA - Past President Global Speakers Federation and co-author of 'The Exceptional Speaker " ...a masterclass of creating sublime slides & presentations, but be warned, you may never be able to sit through a presentation again without thinking of Lee Jackson! " Geoff Ramm - President 2013 Professional Speaking Association UK and Ireland "Jackson has got a bl***y nerve asking me to write a testimonial for his book. You see, I am a proudly militant Anti-PowerPoint Bigot, but somehow, he has turned the Indefensible into the Indispensable! " Graham Davies - best selling author of 'The Presentation Coach' About the Author: Lee Jackson is a motivational speaker, PowerPoint surgeon and presentation coach. He's been speaking up front for more than twenty years in many challenging situations. As well as speaking, he loves helping other people to speak well too. He is a fellow of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA) and also the president of the PSA Yorkshire region. Get in touch via leejackson.biz or on Twitter: @leejackson #powerpointsurgery (*PowerPoint is a loose generic term for any presentation slide design software.)
120 pages, Paperback
First published September 25, 2013
About the author
Lee Jackson
5 books1 followerLee Jackson is an award-winning speaker, presentation coach and author of 12 books. Having worked in the voluntary, public and private sectors over the years he now works in businesses and education helping people to Get Good in challenging times. He is also a fellow of, and the past President of the Professional Speaking Association in the UK & Ireland. His website is www.leejackson.biz
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May 19, 2023
PowerPoint presentations have become an integral part of our daily life. This book will help you to prepare each slide in your presentation in the most productive way and make your presentation interesting for your audience.
All the significant drawbacks that we should be careful about while preparing a slide are carefully addressed and discussed in this book.
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All the significant drawbacks that we should be careful about while preparing a slide are carefully addressed and discussed in this book.
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December 4, 2013
Good points about how to use PowerPoint to have a higher impact when presenting
July 2, 2023
Outdated advide
The author sounds knowledgeable about PowerPoint but the advice is old, the examples are outdated. Maybe this kindle version is not doing justice to the examples given here but they look really uninteresting
The author sounds knowledgeable about PowerPoint but the advice is old, the examples are outdated. Maybe this kindle version is not doing justice to the examples given here but they look really uninteresting
May 25, 2018
Good and simple to follow as guide
Clearly punch out some good and simple points which we might not be aware of at times when creating a ppt.
Clearly punch out some good and simple points which we might not be aware of at times when creating a ppt.
January 30, 2022
Good Read
Very short but Very Useful ......must read for all the presenters. Very Good tips included in very few pages....Use it
Very short but Very Useful ......must read for all the presenters. Very Good tips included in very few pages....Use it
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