Join industry luminaries Troy Chollar, Sandra Johnson, and Nolan Haims as they delve into the intricacies of presentation design. Troy shares insights from his extensive experience since 1999, while Sandra highlights her role in the Presentation Guild. Nolan discusses the shift to online training. The trio explores the challenges of balancing podcasting with professional life and parenting, and they tackle technical topics like effective tools for presentations. Add some humor and real-world anecdotes, and you've got a delightful conversation on elevating communications!
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Summit's Networking Drives Value
Presentation Summit is valued mostly for in-person networking among like-minded peers.
Virtual versions offer broad content access but lack spontaneous side conversations.
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Presentation Work Beyond Design
Realize only about 10% of presentation work is design; most is relationship and marketing.
Effective communication coaching requires focusing beyond just design skills.
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Target Experts in Presentations
Focus presentations on experts with deep knowledge who struggle to communicate it.
Use a simple plan: plan, design, deliver, working especially with technical professionals.
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In this book, Phil M. Jones shares his expertise on the importance of choosing the right words at the right time to influence outcomes. He delivers what he calls ‘Magic Words’ and provides precise examples of how to use them to enhance communication skills. The book is applicable to various situations, including business, sales, and personal interactions, and emphasizes the role of words in shaping favorable outcomes. Jones draws from his extensive experience in training people across the globe to demystify the art of effective communication.
Five presentation designers and co-hosts are in your ears for episode sixty-seven of The Presentation Boss Podcast. We've got a collaboration episode today, where Kate and Thomas joined up with the three co-hosts from The Presentation Podcast. Yes, the similarity in names is half coincidence, and half telling that we are all about relatively similar things. We get to know each other a little better during this (slightly over one) hour, have some laughs and geek out over some presentation nitty-gritty too!
Troy Chollar, Sandra (Sandy) Johnson and Nolan Haims are each PowerPoint MVP's and each run their own successful presentation design studios. Their podcast (one of Thomas' absolute favourites) is a fortnightly show with discussions revolving around all aspects of presentations, including design, technology and sometimes, guest specials.
The five of us decided we could have a lengthy conversation about our journeys through the industry and with our podcasts. The episode will be released on each of our podcasts, so if you're subscribed to us both, that's why you'll hear something similar. If you're not subscribed to both, you ought to be! For regular viewers here, this is a little bit of a different format and we hope you love this massive conversation!
About The Presentation Podcast:
The Presentation Podcast is a conversation among presentation design studio owners (across the USA) about presentation design, tools, tips, running a design studio and more. New episodes release on the first and third Tuesday of each month.
What We Discuss:
• The upcoming virtual Presentation Summit
• Origin stories of how each group met and why we started our respective podcasts
• Specific niches and specialisations of each co-host (and yes, we're each different!)
• Why this podcast rotates through the three formats
• What benefits we each get out of the podcast experience (and some behind the scenes on individual roles)
And we do talk about presentations, specifically:
• The software we find is being most used and that we most work with (PowerPoint, Prezi, Keynote, Google Slides or Canva)
• Professional and Tech tips from each presenter (all links below)
Mentioned in the Show:
Episode 107 of The Presentation Podcast
Troy Chollar (California):
TLC Creative Services
The PowerPoint Blog
Nolan Haims (New Jersey):
Present Your Story Blog
Nolan Haims Creative
Sandy Johnson (Minnesota):
Presentation Wiz
The Presentation Guild
Pro/Tech Tips:
Troy: Synchronise App
Sandy: Mmhmm App
Thomas: Phil M Jones - Exactly What to Say
Kate: Headliner App
Nolan: Hanna...
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