Not all PowerPoint Presentations and Executive Summeries Are Created Equal Presentations to investors, teams and stakeholders -- need to be refined in order to be effective. What does refined mean? What does refined mean? Clear, thoughtful, concise, interesting, distinctive . . . therefore action-producing. You have to wow! your audience with a few minutes in the sweet spot - the RIGHT amount of information - not too little, not too much. Provide overview with the potential for drill-down, without the risk of losing their attention or overwhelming them. For this you need objectivity, resourcefulness and experience. Benefits of a Professionally Designed Presentation Presentations are more enjoyable, and profitable. They set a high standard for visually aliveness. Visual images, writing, look & feel are distinctive and make total sense. Created systematically, they can be analyzed, improved and delivered from different points of view. Creating the Presentation Generally speaking, the work is best done in three sessions -- within ten days or less Session #1) Through visually facilitated brainstorming generate, collect and assemble the relevant messages, visuals, information and sifting through them to determine priority. This is most often done as a team activity to insure the richest material using multiple points of view. During this session, there is a lot of word-smithing, writing, sifting, etc. Session #2) Design the layout; adding in the graphic and visual elements, heads and subheads. This is typically a one-person process that usually take an entire day depending on the volume of the content and number of visuals that require incorporation. Session #3) This is an iterative, editing, re-working and refining process -- to get it "just right". In a best-practice environment, all decision makers have determined in advance who will serve as editorial board, so the team isn't second guessing or tripping over itself or raising the bar forever. The Overall Process Producing successful events means systematically attending to hundreds of details -- from pre-planning to implementation. Since everything has the potential to create value and meaning, everything is connected and linked visually. This end-to-end planning can include these related services: Providing direction for content and methodology during the event. Presentations & Collateral: In addition to the classic "PowerPoint" slide show, I offer a wide variety of graphic materials for before, during and after the meeting. Setting the tone of the meeting before going into it and the follow-through after the meeting can be just as important as the content during the meeting. Visual Facilitation / Graphic Recording / Scribing: We document your content with "real-time capture" on white boards or large sheets of paper. Post-Event Documentation insures smoother, more effective follow-through and implementation of your decisions and content. You may choose to have us prepare a summary/synthesis or document the entire step-by-step meeting process. Visual Facilitation ("scribing" or graphic recording) VizFac supports collaboration so it enables design sessions that accomplish huge results. As seen throughout this website, the process of translating what people say - in conversation, discussion, panel discussions, speeches, etc. -- into a tapestry of words, symbols, colors, cartoons, organic images, etc., provides lasting meaning for meeting participants. It is connective, stylized, and unique to each session. It's is a kind of performance art, done by hand, by a "creative" person with excellent listening and translating skills, right during the meeting, in front of all. Frequently there is interaction between the graphic recorder and meeting participants. The intention is to capture the essence of what's being communicated so that participants and speakers may have a shared /common visual experience to accompany a primarily verbal (auditory) and kinesthetic one. As a teamwork-enhancing process, graphic recording (also known as scribing or graphic facilitation) helps people interact more effectively because it makes ideas come to life as part of the environment, thus validating every participants' expression. Visual facilitation is known for helping groups produce solutions to complex problems more effectively than any other single facilitation technique by focusing attention faster and more thoroughly. The result is usually insight, breakthrough, greater ownership and faster implementation of solutions. Call us when you need their socks knocked off.