How to Make a Slide Deck Using @FiftyThree's PaperSXSWedu
I get a lot of requests asking how I make my slide decks. Here it is.
FiftyThree's wonderful Paper app (iOS) is a great tool for making slide decks. By drawing in stages you can make complex builds that finish in a single slide that can be printed and handed out to your audience as a 1-pager. I've included a sample deck to show you what I mean.
First Church in downtown Sarasota Florida celebrates its 120th Anniversary with a Celebration Dinner at the Hyatt hotel. Founded in 1891 in the center of Sarasota, serving downtown and the region in all the years since, and now renewing for the next 120 years !
Reclaimism: Aspirational Consumers and Emerging TrendsSustainable Brands
The rise of localism, the DIY movement and collaborative consumption business models are corollaries to the trend BBMG calls reclaimism, part of an emerging ecosystem of products, services and experiences that make it easier to live well and do good. Big brands are taking notice, too, recognizing the trend as a key signifier of Aspirational consumers, a fast-growing segment that refuses to compromise and wants to unite style and status with social purpose. This snapshot brings the trend to life by articulating its key themes, providing related brand examples, consumer stories and clear takeaways for today’s forward-thinking brands.
Some cities will outperform entire countries in absolute growth terms, highlighting the need for different resource allocation in certain regions vs. others.
How to Make a Slide Deck Using @FiftyThree's PaperSXSWedu
I get a lot of requests asking how I make my slide decks. Here it is.
FiftyThree's wonderful Paper app (iOS) is a great tool for making slide decks. By drawing in stages you can make complex builds that finish in a single slide that can be printed and handed out to your audience as a 1-pager. I've included a sample deck to show you what I mean.
First Church in downtown Sarasota Florida celebrates its 120th Anniversary with a Celebration Dinner at the Hyatt hotel. Founded in 1891 in the center of Sarasota, serving downtown and the region in all the years since, and now renewing for the next 120 years !
Reclaimism: Aspirational Consumers and Emerging TrendsSustainable Brands
The rise of localism, the DIY movement and collaborative consumption business models are corollaries to the trend BBMG calls reclaimism, part of an emerging ecosystem of products, services and experiences that make it easier to live well and do good. Big brands are taking notice, too, recognizing the trend as a key signifier of Aspirational consumers, a fast-growing segment that refuses to compromise and wants to unite style and status with social purpose. This snapshot brings the trend to life by articulating its key themes, providing related brand examples, consumer stories and clear takeaways for today’s forward-thinking brands.
Some cities will outperform entire countries in absolute growth terms, highlighting the need for different resource allocation in certain regions vs. others.
Inbound Call Centre: Best Way to Handle Customer Inquiries and ComplaintsGo4customer-UK
Inbound call centres are the best way to handle customer queries and issues.Inbound call centres provide prompt customer support and provide wide range of services such as technical support, telephone answering, customer help desk and order taking support. Apart from offering these essential call handling services, the inbound call centre also provide web-enabled services, remote receptionist and toll-free call answering services.Also Inbound call centres are the best for those companies that do not have enough time and resources to deal with customer queries & issues.
Research from the Wall Street Journal and iOpener Institute shows that happy workers really are better workers. They help their colleagues more, achieve their goals more often, and are more motivated in their work.
So, for our latest survey with the WorkHuman Research Institute, we wondered what percentage of workers are happy at work and at home? What are biggest drivers of worker happiness?
Read on to learn the impact of happiness on the bottom line,
3 tips for sustaining happy employees, and how appreciation and caring impact worker happiness.
In an 'always on' world where channel-surfing B2B customers demand real-time responses - no matter where they are - what is the optimal role of social media marketing? Roxane Divol, a partner and leader of McKinsey's Marketing & Sales Practice, addressed this question at the ITSMA Marketing Leadership Forum and demystified the emerging role of marketing as a driver of social technologies. She also discussed the tactics and strategies B2B marketers should use to access the touchpoints and datastreams that reinforce the social consumer decision journey. This presentation provides insights into how, when, and where social media influences and uniquely engages customers, as well as current best practices for developing, launching, and demonstrating the financial impact of social media campaigns. More: http://mckinseyonmarketingandsales.com/topics/b-to-b
Twitter session at Kern on effective layouts inspired Geeta Bose to conduct and design this presentation.
The key learning from the Twitter session:
1. IDs must have skills in visualizing information.
2. Visual design skills mean basic understanding of the design laws and principles.
3. Graphic designers should also understand instructional design principles to add value to visual design.
4. Good IDs are like architects. Like architects they must know about building materials, where to use them etc along with creating a detailed blueprint.
4. Good IDs have better productivity
5. Good IDs must understand Gestalt’s Laws, Color Theory, Basic Typography, Laws of Composition, & Visual Hierarchy.
6. Good IDs must understand Typography: Readability, Legibility, Para Alignment, Leading, Indents, Widow & Orphans, Type Selection.
7. They must understand what is Affordance along with Visual Composition: Point and range of view, rhythm, harmony, balance, and contrast
Loyalty programs are an important marketing lever in their own right, and can accelerate the value from other channels as well. While loyal customers have always driven the bulk of revenue (and profits), trends are creating a mandate for more sophisticated loyalty marketing. Loyalty marketing capabilities and delivery mechanisms continue to evolve as a result, getting more rich but also more complex to manage. Are you asking the right questions about your loyalty program?
The digital tide is hitting all of us, profoundly transforming our
everyday lives, and dramatically transforming the way
consumers behave and think about brands. Far from being the harbinger of the end of retail, digital is a big competitive advantage for stores that know how to use it. This presentation was shared by McKinsey partner Nathalie Remy (Paris) at the Women's Wear Daily Apparel and Retail CEO Summit. View McKinsey's top retail content: http://mckinseyonmarketingandsales.com/sector/retail
Visual notetaking is a process of representing ideas non-linguistically. (That’s a fancy of way of saying, “drawing pictures.”) Visual notetaking can include concept mapping, but also more artistic ways of visually capturing and representing ideas. On the simpler side of the visual notetaking continuum, visual notes can be used to create narrated art. On the complex end of the spectrum, some visual notetaking applications support the creation of whiteboard animation videos which include audio narration synchronized to screencasts of drawings. Visual or graphic facilitation can be used at meetings to summarize presentations and guide discussions. Whether simple or complex, visual notes can be used to more deeply process information as well as communicate it to others with images. Come join us as we explore and practice visual notetaking.
http://wfryer.me/vnotes
Creating a great customer experience requires good data, content, and engagement programs across the entire decision journey. Getting it wrong can mean losing customers or seeing negative buzz erode sales. Big data and digital can play critical roles in bolstering operating margins. Leaders in big data across markets have generally outperformed their peers, sometimes by as much as 20% - 30%.
Five Things You Can Do Right Now To Make Your Research Presentations Just A L...Scott St. George
The ability to deliver effective and engaging oral presentations is a critical skill for all researchers. Unfortunately, despite the importance of clear communication, too many scientific presentations at conferences and workshops are confusing, abstract, and boring. In this short workshop, participants learn several key strategies and tips that will make their professional presentations just a little bit better than the rest. We discuss strategies for presentation planning, show how basic design principles can create more memorable slides, and point towards an outstanding set online tools and resources. Become a presentation superstar!
Scott St. George is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota and a Resident Fellow at UMN's Institute on the Environment. Prior to joining the faculty at Minnesota, he was a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada. Scott shares some of his experiences ‘doing presentations differently’ at conferences, outreach opportunities, and the classroom.
For companies to be successful today, they have to plan for customer journeys not just customer experiences. In the digital age where engaging with customers across the entire purchase process, the experience with the brand can as important - if not more so - than the product itself. The best companies are aligned on their customer journey strategy, are truly omnichannel, get and keep the right talent, know what their return on marketing investment is, have campaigns tailored to their customers, and are agile. David Edelman made this presentation at the Financial Times Future of Marketing Summit.
SalesSchool - designing sales presentations that sellIdea Transplant
The slides I used in my talk at NYU for SalesSchool on 6 April 2011. Some of the charts do not stand very well on their own, SalesCrunch will post audio and video fragments on their web site soon.
The slides I used for my talk at NYU for SalesSchool on 5 April 2011. The subject was designing VC pitch presentations for an audience of startup entrepreneurs. Some of the slides do not stand very well on their own, SalesCrunch will soon start publishing audio and video fragments on their web site.
Insuline is a medical device company that recently IPO-ed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. This is the presentation I designed for the company to introduce itself to potential investors
Using a number of well-known paintings, Jan Schultink, a McKinsey-trained presentation designer and strategy consultant, introduces himself and his perspectives on presentation design.
Inbound Call Centre: Best Way to Handle Customer Inquiries and ComplaintsGo4customer-UK
Inbound call centres are the best way to handle customer queries and issues.Inbound call centres provide prompt customer support and provide wide range of services such as technical support, telephone answering, customer help desk and order taking support. Apart from offering these essential call handling services, the inbound call centre also provide web-enabled services, remote receptionist and toll-free call answering services.Also Inbound call centres are the best for those companies that do not have enough time and resources to deal with customer queries & issues.
Research from the Wall Street Journal and iOpener Institute shows that happy workers really are better workers. They help their colleagues more, achieve their goals more often, and are more motivated in their work.
So, for our latest survey with the WorkHuman Research Institute, we wondered what percentage of workers are happy at work and at home? What are biggest drivers of worker happiness?
Read on to learn the impact of happiness on the bottom line,
3 tips for sustaining happy employees, and how appreciation and caring impact worker happiness.
In an 'always on' world where channel-surfing B2B customers demand real-time responses - no matter where they are - what is the optimal role of social media marketing? Roxane Divol, a partner and leader of McKinsey's Marketing & Sales Practice, addressed this question at the ITSMA Marketing Leadership Forum and demystified the emerging role of marketing as a driver of social technologies. She also discussed the tactics and strategies B2B marketers should use to access the touchpoints and datastreams that reinforce the social consumer decision journey. This presentation provides insights into how, when, and where social media influences and uniquely engages customers, as well as current best practices for developing, launching, and demonstrating the financial impact of social media campaigns. More: http://mckinseyonmarketingandsales.com/topics/b-to-b
Twitter session at Kern on effective layouts inspired Geeta Bose to conduct and design this presentation.
The key learning from the Twitter session:
1. IDs must have skills in visualizing information.
2. Visual design skills mean basic understanding of the design laws and principles.
3. Graphic designers should also understand instructional design principles to add value to visual design.
4. Good IDs are like architects. Like architects they must know about building materials, where to use them etc along with creating a detailed blueprint.
4. Good IDs have better productivity
5. Good IDs must understand Gestalt’s Laws, Color Theory, Basic Typography, Laws of Composition, & Visual Hierarchy.
6. Good IDs must understand Typography: Readability, Legibility, Para Alignment, Leading, Indents, Widow & Orphans, Type Selection.
7. They must understand what is Affordance along with Visual Composition: Point and range of view, rhythm, harmony, balance, and contrast
Loyalty programs are an important marketing lever in their own right, and can accelerate the value from other channels as well. While loyal customers have always driven the bulk of revenue (and profits), trends are creating a mandate for more sophisticated loyalty marketing. Loyalty marketing capabilities and delivery mechanisms continue to evolve as a result, getting more rich but also more complex to manage. Are you asking the right questions about your loyalty program?
The digital tide is hitting all of us, profoundly transforming our
everyday lives, and dramatically transforming the way
consumers behave and think about brands. Far from being the harbinger of the end of retail, digital is a big competitive advantage for stores that know how to use it. This presentation was shared by McKinsey partner Nathalie Remy (Paris) at the Women's Wear Daily Apparel and Retail CEO Summit. View McKinsey's top retail content: http://mckinseyonmarketingandsales.com/sector/retail
Visual notetaking is a process of representing ideas non-linguistically. (That’s a fancy of way of saying, “drawing pictures.”) Visual notetaking can include concept mapping, but also more artistic ways of visually capturing and representing ideas. On the simpler side of the visual notetaking continuum, visual notes can be used to create narrated art. On the complex end of the spectrum, some visual notetaking applications support the creation of whiteboard animation videos which include audio narration synchronized to screencasts of drawings. Visual or graphic facilitation can be used at meetings to summarize presentations and guide discussions. Whether simple or complex, visual notes can be used to more deeply process information as well as communicate it to others with images. Come join us as we explore and practice visual notetaking.
http://wfryer.me/vnotes
Creating a great customer experience requires good data, content, and engagement programs across the entire decision journey. Getting it wrong can mean losing customers or seeing negative buzz erode sales. Big data and digital can play critical roles in bolstering operating margins. Leaders in big data across markets have generally outperformed their peers, sometimes by as much as 20% - 30%.
Five Things You Can Do Right Now To Make Your Research Presentations Just A L...Scott St. George
The ability to deliver effective and engaging oral presentations is a critical skill for all researchers. Unfortunately, despite the importance of clear communication, too many scientific presentations at conferences and workshops are confusing, abstract, and boring. In this short workshop, participants learn several key strategies and tips that will make their professional presentations just a little bit better than the rest. We discuss strategies for presentation planning, show how basic design principles can create more memorable slides, and point towards an outstanding set online tools and resources. Become a presentation superstar!
Scott St. George is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota and a Resident Fellow at UMN's Institute on the Environment. Prior to joining the faculty at Minnesota, he was a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada. Scott shares some of his experiences ‘doing presentations differently’ at conferences, outreach opportunities, and the classroom.
For companies to be successful today, they have to plan for customer journeys not just customer experiences. In the digital age where engaging with customers across the entire purchase process, the experience with the brand can as important - if not more so - than the product itself. The best companies are aligned on their customer journey strategy, are truly omnichannel, get and keep the right talent, know what their return on marketing investment is, have campaigns tailored to their customers, and are agile. David Edelman made this presentation at the Financial Times Future of Marketing Summit.
SalesSchool - designing sales presentations that sellIdea Transplant
The slides I used in my talk at NYU for SalesSchool on 6 April 2011. Some of the charts do not stand very well on their own, SalesCrunch will post audio and video fragments on their web site soon.
The slides I used for my talk at NYU for SalesSchool on 5 April 2011. The subject was designing VC pitch presentations for an audience of startup entrepreneurs. Some of the slides do not stand very well on their own, SalesCrunch will soon start publishing audio and video fragments on their web site.
Insuline is a medical device company that recently IPO-ed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. This is the presentation I designed for the company to introduce itself to potential investors
Using a number of well-known paintings, Jan Schultink, a McKinsey-trained presentation designer and strategy consultant, introduces himself and his perspectives on presentation design.
Downloadable PDF of the presentation lessons for entrepreneurs presentationIdea Transplant
These slides can be downloaded as a PDF. Please use them only for demonstrations or academic purposes. I hope they will inspire you to make better slides yourself.
The slides I used for a presentation for Entrepreneurs Club of the Technion University in Haifa, Israel on May 6, 2009. Please note that these slides are only one part of the full presentation that included my own presence and explanations
7. PRELIMINARY
CONSULTING WORK BUILT COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Key success drivers resulting from McKinsey engagements
A decade of Significant amount of data
Communication
skills*
Presenting to senior
analysis and synthesizing
McKinsey
management audiences
recommendations
Constant
structuring,
restructuring
* Both verbal and visual of story lines
Source: team analysis