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"Presentation Skills You Need To Learn: Use Your Slides to Engage Your Audience, Not Put Them to Sleep"

This post was written by Cordell Parvin: "Last week I posted Presentation Skills You Need To Learn: Tell Stories. That is certainly important, but it doesn't cover all the presentation skills you need to learn. If you want to be bored beyond words, just sit through a series of presentations done by lawyers with bullet point slides and too many words on a page. Are you yawning just thinking about it?

Mark Opashinov is a Toronto based lawyer with McMillan LLP.  Mark focuses  on Corporate and Competition Law. While I was coaching Mark , he was offered the opportunity to speak at a conference on "Tips & Traps Competition law for Intellectual Property Licensing" 

I had worked with Mark's coaching group on giving presentations using slides with visuals rather than bullet points. At first Mark thought that would be impossible because the material he was covering was complex. I suggested he read Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson..."

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Source: Law Consulting Blog, 13 October 2010. © 2010, Cordell Parvin LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).