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Just back from almost four straight weeks of traveling! I am exhausted. Big thanks to the folks in Fort Leavenworth Kansas; Quantico Va; NJ; NY; Pennsylvania; and everyone else who sat in training or one of my speeches. It was a great success and high scores on the speeches and training are rolling in...

I was reading a fantastic book on my flight this week. It's called Scorecasting and was co-written by University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz and Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim. They take on cherished nuggets of sports wisdom like "defenses win championships" and using...

In an earlier post this week , I talked about the need for organizations to have a single Graphics Library that contains amongst other things, Shapes. The primitives are circles, squares, rectangles, bullets, triangles, etc… Today, I am including 52 different PNG files that have a range...

So what are the principles that underlie the Modern Presentation Method? What key tenets do I think should guide a presentation method? Less Is More - A presentation should be of limited length and duration. The goal is to present the right amount of information in the minimum time. Standardize...

It's been a couple of weeks since my last blog post as I've been on the road to see the Doctrine and Training experts for the US Army and the US Marine Corps. Had lots of productive meetings and I think we are making progress on how both branches can use the Modern Presentation Method (MPM) as a model...

Whirlwind trip with a ton of meetings. CAC, CAC-T, BCTP, CGSC, MC COE and even ABC. Looking forward to how Microsoft can help the Army save time and money using MPM. More Posts soon. DK

All right, it's Template Thursday. Today's Super_Green_Template is great for Pitching or Teaching and has a nice green color scheme. Steal this and use it for your next presentation. Let me introduce you to one of the slide layouts in this template. It's called the TrendWall. Trend Wall A TrendWall...

Change is hard! Especially within an organization. People are afraid to move from what is familiar, even if it is sub-optimal, to something that is unfamiliar. People have been emailing me lately asking how they should introduce the Modern Presentation Method into their organizations. My answer is simple...

Today's post will be a quick one. These are for all of those people who are creating Pitch or Teaching presentations for onscreen or want a sharp on paper Organizing presentation. Many times when you want to include a chart of a graph you can't find one that looks clean enough in the standard chart templates...

We've spent the last few weeks going over Step 3 of the Modern Presentation Method: Build and Refine. Now it's time to move on to the second to last step, Step 4: Rehearse (and Refine). At the end of Step 3: Build and Refine, the goal was to have a presentation that meets your minimum quality bar...

So here's key point #1…..The method that I'm proposing for presenting does not exclusively use PowerPoint to display content. GASP! How can a Microsoft speechwriter say such a dastardly thing, you cry in alarm! Relax, I love PowerPoint and the Modern Presentation Method uses...