presentations

Twenty years back I enjoyed working with a client selling solutions for 'corporate building maintenance'. In my salesforce knowledge management capacity, I witnessed poor big ticket training company sessions, utterly misguided global Sales consultants programs, and internal resource fruitless struggles to shift the salesteam approach in a significant

Google boasts how AI drives its OA, aka Workspace, apps. Yet there's a problem with this. Around the same time as London-based Institute for Public Policy Research found an alarming skew in the "narrow and inconsistent" sources used for bot answers, I noted the lack of

I love a good Before/After framing. Don't fall into the trap that it can only be applied to the physical. For the intangible is also ripe for the treatment. The above case comes from the photogenic. With chilling metaphor for appalling government delivery. It could really be

Down the Winters one reporter revels in his Davos jaunts. CNN's Richard Quest used a gimmick early on [see 2018's eg]. And continues with it to this day. Which is good news for us sellers, as there's often a decent tip from each year&

Twelve months back, a selection of 16 graphics came through from 2024 as noteworthy for furthering our persuasive aims through charting. Time to look at what 2025 doth brung. Let's start off at basecamp. An entry-level, typical linegraph. If we presented such - which can be acceptable -

Here's an interesting slant. Pic taken in tricky surrounds from a newspaper print edition. Hopefully the message still visible. When a chart raises questions, it can be a useful exercise. With this assessment, you ask such as, 'why is the top country so ahead?' It'

Trends cycle round with presentation design. One that seems in thrall to fashion is the text-only, short message slide. Originally, if such a thing did exist, it was black text on white. Then as Millennium dawned, the background was best advised dark, with light text atop. Yet the blank white