فصل: Chapter 1: Fundamentals
Follow-up, signatures and security
Three things separate the organised professional from everyone else: they do not forget what they delegated, their signature identifies them, and they are not…
Before you open the program: the message and the structure
The worst deck is the one whose author began by opening PowerPoint. Start with a sheet of paper and two questions, and you will…
The slide master and layouts
If you are positioning the logo on every slide individually, you are working against the program rather than with it. This lesson is the…
Slide design and visual hierarchy
You have three seconds before a member of the audience decides where to look. Good design makes that decision for them.
Presenting numbers: tables and charts
A chart is not decoration for numbers; it is the answer to a question. And if you do not know your question, there is…
Animation and the actual delivery
Animation is a tool for attention, not for showing off. And the most important thing on the day is not the slides but how…
An inbox under control
The problem is not the number of messages; it is that most of us open the same message five times without settling it. Let…
Professional email that gets read and acted on
Your message will be read on a phone, between two meetings, by someone who receives a hundred emails a day. Write for that reader,…
Rules, categories and search
What you do by hand every day, Outlook can do for you before you even turn the machine on.
The calendar and meetings
Five emails back and forth to agree a time… while Outlook already knows everyone's availability and can show it to you on one screen.