Picture-perfect Professional Gifts

After 20 years, at 25 West 43rd Street, between the 19th and 18th floors: "Hello, Mr. Koren," "Hello, Mr. Shawn."

"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

"I was hoping this presentation would be more interesting upside down."

Brian wanted to call the presentation "Synergy". Paula wanted to call it "Cooperation". They could never agree.

Butterfly Woman

How to deliver a successful presentation.

"Any questions?"

"Quit stalling, Smithers. Where's the SALES chart?"

'It appears the 'What?'s have it.'

'Ted, I really wish you'd update your presentation software so we could do away with the 3-D glasses.'

"Peterson proposes we move out of the mountains."

The Importance of Planning Thoroughly in Advance

"Good invisible exports figures this quarter, sir."

"I'll be glad when they invent PowerPoint."

Hanging off every word...

Framed Lady

'This prediction has a margin of error of plus or minus fifteen...fifteen class-action suits brought against the company.'

'Can't he ever use a different kind of chart?'

'At this juncture in my presentation, I'd like to dispense with the illusion of coherence.'

"In response to your request for better communications, I'm going to increase my lengthy explanation by 50%."

"May I recommend our Seared Filet with Lobster Cream Sauce? It's very photogenic."

"I can't tell you how it ended. That would ruin the sequel."

Presentation Skills: 1. Be Prepared.

'And in conclusion, perhaps a change of business model is in order.'

"The sound system is fixed so we can start. Would you kindly put the beach ball away!"

'I wish you would update your presentation software so we could do away with the 3-D glasses.'

"I figure we can blue-screen the kids in later."

"Maybe the pie chart should have been refrigerated."

"You additional graphics are totally unnecessary, Phelps."

'Good to know my whole social life hasn't been a complete waste.'

"Another organization has already researched this, but I'm afraid that if we use it, we won't get as much credit."

How to engage an audience

PowerPointless Presentation

"...and this chart shows people clearly prefer bar graphs to pie charts."

'The boss wants to know how much longer till Powerpoint is working again.'