Communicate your agenda or follow other’s dreams

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. Tony Robbins

Today I want to help you to stay focused on your objectives and how you can help your team to stay focused on what is important for you.

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Every business presentation should start with a diagram

Have you ever been to a conference, where you felt lost in the presentation?

I experienced many such situations. The worst was IT conferences – speakers there usually present some new cool application. Most of the speech a speaker talks about all the magic features their software offers. However often I missed one thing – what the hell was their application good for?

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1 message rule (Prezentio’s Rules of good presentation)

Imagine a situation – you are working on a presentation, you know your content, you have a structure, and there is one key message you want to make sure every body will remember from your talk. You know that just saying or writing that message is not good enough. What else can you do? What about supporting it by graphical illustration that tells your key message in visual way.

I was in such situation when working on my training. In this article I am going to present you a simple visualization example of a such key message.

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Every successful case is a special case (Seth Godin blog)

Here I share example of illustrating the main message of Seth Godin’s blog post “Every successful case is a special case” or how you can present a success. You can see process of visual thinking how I came up with the final Venn diagram drawing.

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Four Reasons Any Action Is Better than None (R. Kanter), extended HowTo

This is an another practise of using visual thinking to extract the essence of written word. See how I would illustrate the main idea of the business article about planning activities.

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