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Good presentations stay light. This month’s stories all share one idea: keep only what matters. A slide should carry one big number, so people can make a choice instead of reading a crowd of figures. A heavy file hides extra weight, like huge photos and old leftovers, and a quick check can trim it down. And before any slide exists, a short idea and a rough sketch on paper show you what the story really needs.
Plan first. Show less. Carry less. Your audience will thank you, and your files will too.
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Laszlo Diewald has been working as a consultant for more than 10 years now. He started his career as an employee right after his study at the Technical University of Munich. Shortly after, he decided to become self-employed as a freelance consultant. In 2017, he founded his own consultancy, with a focus on large scale projects in the financial sector. In parallel, he started working on presentaid, which was finally launched in April 2022.
In this conversation, Laszlo talks about presentaid’s new File Size Inspector.
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Slides are helpers, not the show. Jerry Weissman explains why pictures still beat long blocks of words, because people remember what they see. Our Ampler tutorial shows this with waterfall charts: one clear picture of how a number grows or shrinks, instead of a page of figures. But a good picture only works if someone is listening. Claudyne Wilder compares starting a talk to starting a dance. You connect with your partner first, and then you begin. Three reads, one simple rule: help people see, and help them feel included.
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By Geetesh Bajaj, with help from David Tang
How many KPIs belong on a slide? More importantly, how many can an audience truly absorb before attention turns into overload? In this thoughtful article, we explore the balance between completeness and clarity, arguing that the most effective KPI slides are not repositories of data but tools for decision-making. Using examples from business, aviation, medicine, and psychology, they demonstrate why fewer, better-presented metrics often lead to stronger conversations and faster decisions.
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Recently I was talking to a Public Relations firm. We discussed the need for every presenter to establish rapport with the audience. How do you do it? How come some people do it so well?
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