Nancy Duarte's Blog, page 11
April 3, 2020
4 Tips for Choosing the Best Virtual Backgrounds on Zoom Meetings
Here at Duarte, we not only teach communication skills, we teach people how to present themselves. In this new virtual world, we have to consider how we appear and communicate virtually—like on Zoom meetings—and what that means for how our audience perceives our brand. By now you’ve probably seen some silly screenshots of things happening [...] continue reading
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March 30, 2020
The Communication Guide For Leaders Who Aren’t Sure What’s Coming Next
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Leaders don’t always know what changes are around the corner. Good or bad, change breeds uncertainty, and uncertainty can breed fear—especially when it will affect employees, whose jobs hang in the balance, and customers, who depend on a product or service. Instead of communicating openly with both groups, leaders tend to [...] continue reading
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Uncertainty Tests Your Values: Five Stories From Times of Crisis
Leading is imperfect, and when a crisis piles on, it gets extra messy. Crisis requires we become decisive about problems we’ve never faced. Good leaders get extra brave, extra calm, and extra clear in moments like this one. I’ve owned a bootstrapped, debt-free company for 32 years, and have ridden this crisis pony five times. [...] continue reading
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March 25, 2020
Tips to Make the Most of Your Virtual Communication Experience
As the global workforce transforms amidst our new virtual reality, Duarte is working hard to help our clients prepare for the future of online work, learning, and communication. While many business professionals have been communicating virtually for years, our teachers, medical workers, and other professionals may find themselves in brand new territory. We’ve coached thousands [...] continue reading
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March 23, 2020
How to Crop Photos into Shapes in PowerPoint
In this video, we’ll show you how to crop photos in PowerPoint into shapes—like a circle! You can introduce more negative space to your slide by cropping photos into shapes. A great example of a time when you might need to crop photos in PowerPoint into shapes would be when you have a quote accompanied [...] continue reading
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How to Crop, Resize, and Compress Photos in PowerPoint
After you’ve identified the photo you want to use, the first thing you’ll need to do is edit the basics of the photo. This likely includes cropping, resizing, and compressing photos in PowerPoint. First thing’s first, find a photo you want to use, and open up PowerPoint… Here are some of the things we’ll teach [...] continue reading
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March 21, 2020
How to Edit Photo Brightness, Contrast & Saturation in PowerPoint
Welcome to the Presentation Hacks: Using Photos in PowerPoint video series! In these lessons, a Duarte designer shares some of the fundamental tools of using photos in PowerPoint. In this video, we’ll show you the tools that are native to PowerPoint that allow you to edit photos directly in the application. We break down how [...] continue reading
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March 20, 2020
How to Apply Styles to Photos in PowerPoint
Welcome to the Presentation Hacks: Using Photos in PowerPoint video series! In these lessons, a Duarte designer shares some of the fundamental tools of using photos in PowerPoint. In this lesson, we’ll show you some creative ways to use PowerPoint effects to emphasize your photos. Specifically, we’ll show you how to make a photo look [...] continue reading
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March 10, 2020
10 Ways to Communicate with Empathy and Authority in Times of Crisis
This is a rapidly evolving situation. For the most up-to-date information on the Coronavirus visit the World Health Organization’s website here, and view their latest advice on public self-care here. In everyday business communication, the best communicators exhibit a balance of empathy and authority. Warmth-and-strength is always the appropriate tone combination, not only when it [...] continue reading
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How to Select the Best Photos for Slide Backgrounds
The best PowerPoint presentations have visuals. Why? Because visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text, which means you can paint a picture for an audience much faster, with actual photos in PowerPoint. So often, photos in PowerPoint are used in a way that is distracting to a presenter’s message. Whether the photo is too [...] continue reading
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