by Richard Hansen | Jun 5, 2018 | Uncategorised
There are many ways to gather thoughts ideas and write a script for your presentation but how do you order them later in an understandable and sequential manner. The answer may be using sticky notes. In this post, I will detail how to storyboard your presentation with...
by Richard Hansen | Aug 26, 2017 | Ignite, Uncategorised
Impact Presentations has helped many hundreds of people deliver a presentation that either convinced an audience or told a story that shared their message with the world. But something was missing. We were looking for a platform to help many more speakers deliver a...
by Richard Hansen | Jul 1, 2017 | General, PowerPoint, Slide Design, Time Saving PowerPoint Tips
There is nothing more frustrating than having your beautifully designed PowerPoint slides change to something hideous when copying to another deck. In this post, I will demonstrate a very simple way to keep the current format in PowerPoint when copying slides to...
by Richard Hansen | Nov 28, 2016 | General, PowerPoint, Slide Design
One of the general ideas of a mask is to hide what you do not want seen. We can use the same masking concept on our presentation slides to hide what we don’t want seen. We can also use masking to highlight parts of an image that we do want to feature on our...
by Richard Hansen | Nov 26, 2016 | (VIDEO), General, PowerPoint, Slide Design, Uncategorised
One of my favourite quotes is “Talk low, talk slow and don’t talk too much”. Of course it would not be right if I did not credit the originator of that quote which was the legendary actor John Wayne. As we know when delivering presentations we should...
by Richard Hansen | Oct 30, 2016 | General, PowerPoint, Slide Design, Uncategorised
Anyone who has seen me speak about slide design knows that I have a healthy distaste for text-heavy PowerPoint slides or key points listed in bullet form. The mind sees each letter in a word as a separate element. Therefore text-heavy slides will look like a bunch of...
by Richard Hansen | Oct 9, 2016 | General, Public Speaking Tips
As presenters who have been asked to share their knowledge on someone’s stage or at a networking meeting, we all have a tendency to make the same mistake. Naturally, we want to provide value and deliver as much as we possibly can in the time allowed. We also...
by Richard Hansen | May 16, 2016 | (VIDEO), General, Slide Design, Uncategorised
One of my favourite ways to display images is bleed them right across the slide filling up the entire screen. This also removes all unwanted background elements making the image the main focus on the screen. However we don’t need to stop at just the edges. We...
by Richard Hansen | May 10, 2016 | Uncategorised
One of the first places many presenters go to find images for their presentations is Google Images. This however poses some problems in that we do not usually have permission to use these images. We can also spend a lot of time finding images that are of high enough...
by Richard Hansen | Feb 24, 2016 | Uncategorised
I recently had the opportunity to emcee or facilitate a “Meet The Candidates” evening hosted by the local Chamber of Commerce and another community action group. This is an event where the community gets to meet candidates for the upcoming local government...
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