by Rob Cottingham | Mar 7, 2019 | LCWRC, Podcast, Speaking, Speechwriting
The world is full of speeches weighed down with terrible slide decks. Don’t let yours be one of them. This episode, we look at how to make PowerPoint work well for you and your audience — and I make the case for not using slides at all.
by Rob Cottingham | Mar 3, 2016 | Speechwriting
WHEREAS life is short and our time on Earth is finite; WHEREAS the duration of a bad presentation is subjectively many times longer than that of a good one; WHEREAS the dedication of audience’s time and attention to a speaker is a gift of considerable value, not... by Rob Cottingham | Dec 16, 2015 | Speechwriting
In the last post, I tackled a Business Insider article that claimed the reason most PowerPoint presentations aren’t effective is that they use boring templates. My response: what makes presentations awful isn’t boring templates. It’s boring content (slide or spoken),... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 20, 2015 | Speechwriting
Kindly allow me a short rant. Because this article from Business Insider is driving me a little nuts: PowerPoint presentations are the standard for presentations in the workplace. Except that they kind of suck …. It’s not really Microsoft’s fault.... by Rob Cottingham | May 22, 2012 | Everything Else, Social Signal
It’s hard to say just where Nancy Duarte has had the biggest impact: as the architect of Al Gore’s presentation on climate change in An Inconvenient Truth……as the author of two profoundly powerful books on crafting and delivering presentations, sli…