Examples of PowerPoint in the following topics:
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- Use bullet points or create lists to organize material; make sure this is "nice" to look at (easy to read)
- Use text to support/explain charts and graphs (be brief but cover the high points)
- A presentation program such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, OpenOffice.org Impress or Prezi, is often used to generate the presentation content.
- The following are formatting guidelines specific to using PowerPoint or similar presentation software:
- Do not write out the entire presentation on your PowerPoint; instead, create bullet points and headings no longer than three to five words that give the main points
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- If presenting in front of a crowd with a PowerPoint presentation, practice beforehand to coworkers.
- While experiencing performance anxiety, we often invest the others with imagined power, especially in their ability to affect us through their evaluation of our performance.
- Ways to reduce this imagined power is to increase the sense of one's own power, to perceive the vulnerability of others, and to accept oneself.
- Pay special attention to the delivery of your key points; this is typically where stumbling for your words can become the greatest problem.
- Practice pausing in your speech after important information you would like to stress, as well as when you are transitioning from one main point to another.
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- When PCs became available, their cost was such that the power of the computer was made available at low cost and so today, most organizations of any size have at least one PC or laptop.
- Suffice it to say at this point, that you will have many options:
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- Storytelling is a powerful tool for leaders, entrepreneurs, and community managers to relay a vision and craft a strong sense of purpose.
- Storytelling is an incredibly powerful skill set, both in regards to effective rhetoric and presentation and leadership.
- Find something in their world, and use that as your starting point.
- End with a punch – The conclusion is your chance to make a point with emphasis (!).
- Make sure the flow of your story results in a powerful and punchy conclusion that truly speaks to the audience.
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- How can we make it powerful, instead?
- Help your reader out; repeat yourself when you want to be sure the person gets your point.
- Manipulating either the inked or the un-inked portions of the page can highlight and reinforce your important points.
- Using bullet points, although it's easily overdone, also generally lends power to items in a series.
- Turn on the power!
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- Most people sincerely admire powerful delivery by public speakers, perhaps because they don't feel as sure of themselves as they think those speakers are.
- Step Two: Segment your main idea into two, three, or four main points.
- Strive to be so clear about your points that no one can overlook them.
- Pittsburgh, indicate that its participants scored 1,663,987,694,540 points.
- That's 1.6 trillion points.
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- Replacing human and animal power with water power, wind power, steam, electricity, and internal combustion greatly increased the use of energy.
- Just before the Industrial Revolution, water power was applied to bellows for iron smelting.
- Wind and water power were also used in sawmills.
- The spinning mule allowed a large number of threads to be spun by a single machine using water power.
- In 1973, IBM introduced point of sale (POS) terminals in which electronic cash registers were networked to the store's mainframe computer.
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- Governments use laws and regulations to point business behavior in what governments perceive to be beneficial directions.
- Governments use laws and regulations to point business behavior in what governments perceive to be beneficial directions.
- Professional conduct - the regulation of members of professional bodies, either acting under statutory or contractual powers.
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- Labor unions have lost power in the United States over the years and, today, union membership varies by sector.
- In such settings, the unions' political power thus comes into play.
- One explanation for loss of public support is simply the lack of union power.
- Unions no longer carry the "threat effect:" the power of unions to raise wages of non-union shops by virtue of the threat of unions to organize those shops.
- Others point out that the United Auto Workers has made extensive concessions to the car companies over the last 20 years in order to help the companies remain competitive, and allege that the automakers' recent troubles are better ascribed to other factors.
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- For example, a cashier making change at a point of sale by segregating a customer's large bills, counting up from the sale amount, and placing the change on the counter in such a way as to invite the customer to verify the amount of change demonstrates transparency.
- The transparency that occurs as a result of open communication protects against potential abuses of power and makes for a safer environment overall.