Last night, I attended the HTCE's latest event, presented by Marian Lewandowski: Stand Out from the Crowd: How to Deliver Effective Presentations.

We have all been victims of “Death by PowerPoint”. Every day, more than 30 million PowerPoint presentations are delivered. The majority of these presentations are not as effective as they could be. The Effective Presentations Session will show you how to create and deliver effective presentations to ensure that the audience understands and remembers your key messages.

It was a really fabulous presentation and I came away with a lot of information. And I didn't take one note. Seriously - the presentation was that engaging.

Marian talked about delivering only three key messages, using PowerPoint as a tool to support your presentation (not as the presentation itself), and he demonstrated how to use storytelling as an effective method of communicating the subject matter. He really just gave an informative and engaging talk and brought presentations back to the basics.

Check out Marian's site: Effective Presentations - and book him for a talk with your company - he really knows his stuff, and I guarantee that the majority of attendees will come away with at least one piece of valuable information.