by Dave Hill | May 25, 2013 | Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies, Slide Design
When you give a bad presentation, it’s a waste of your time and the audience’s time. A bad presentation can cause you to feel demoralized and frustrated because you’ve failed to get your message across. As an audience member, an ineffective presentation may leave you...
by Dave Hill | Jun 8, 2010 | Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies, Slide Design
In February 1977, I was getting ready to graduate high school in Ireland, and was pursuing a career as an officer on cargo ships. I was still trying to determine if I wanted to be a deck officer or an engineer officer. I was leaning towards becoming an engineer...
by Dave Hill | Apr 17, 2010 | Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies, Slide Design
Imagine a dark and dreary chemical manufacturing conference room. It smells of dank and deteriorating technical manuals. It is about 4 pm and your brain is tired after a day of heated technical discussions and conflict. You are visiting the chemical plant to conduct a...
by Dave Hill | Mar 30, 2010 | Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies, Slide Design
It was just another day out at the zoo in Austin, Texas. I left my kids seated on a bench to rest as I walked a short distance away to look at some animals in an enclosure. I must have been distracted and out of earshot for a while, because when I turned around, a...
