The Eyeful Blog
This is where we share whatever excites our storytellers, presentation designers, or trainers (or, on occasion, gets them hot under the collar).
You might be looking for pithy sales presentation best practice or the very latest thinking on PowerPoint design. If it’s presentation related, chances are you’ll find it on our blog (we’ve even made it searchable to make it quicker and easier to access the good stuff).
Also, check out the Eyeful Vault for a deeper dive into presentation best practice or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter for up to the minute thinking.
Reasons To Be Proud #34 – Matt’s Eyeful Journey
Eyeful isn’t just a leading presentation storytelling, PowerPoint design and skills training company. Oh no! We’re a place where we help each and every team member get to make the most of their talents. This leads to some exciting journeys (and makes us very proud). A perfect example is the lovely Matt Roper, who has gone from Project Manager to Videographer (via a somewhat circuitous route!).
We’re More Than Just Presentations. Let Me Tell You A Story…
You might think that the clue is in the name – Eyeful PRESENTATIONS, right? Actually, the reality is a little more involved than that. We use our presentation storytelling smarts to support our customers in a host of different ways, from messaging frameworks to sales enablement programmes and everything in between.
Our friends at Emoquo are a case in point. Let us explain…
It’s Time to take Presentation Training Seriously
According to the latest stats, 91% of leaders fail their employees in one key area – communication.
We find this more than a little shocking. A leader’s ability to present information to drive enthusiasm, commitment, passion and action from your team is surely a prerequisite for the job, yet the VAST majority suck at it.
Something has to change. It’s time to take another look at presentation training.
It’s A Bit Like What Richard Branson Said
Eyeful people are special. Yes, we know every business says the same thing…but ours are REALLY special. They make the difference with our customers, are the source of new presentation inspiration and, frankly, make going to work fun! In the first of a series of videos, longstanding Eyefulite Iysha shares her Eyeful Journey.
Present as part of a Communication Toolkit
Even great presentations can be let down by what precedes or follows them (or, more commonly, by what doesn’t precede or follow them).
Salespeople need to think of the entire sales process as a chess game – the presentation element is just one of a series of moves that will get to the win.
A Blunt Question – Why Eyeful?
Many companies purport to improve presentations. Some of them will focus on how you stand and what you do with your hands. Others will tidy up your slides. And others will attempt to introduce you new presentation technologies.
Few will start from the ground up, and custom build a Connect-Communicate-Sustain presentation strategy to ensure your success. Eyeful’s success is built upon delivering proven Outcome-Based Presenting solutions to companies large and small.
Stories can change the world
Presentation storytelling holds great power. Stories have the power to connect presenters to audiences, translate complex ideas into meaningful presentation messages and, most importantly, drive action.
To celebrate Black History Month, we take a look at how three remarkable communicators use story and visual imagery to spark important change across the world.
VR Business Presentations – Is That A Thing?
Presentation technology is evolving at a remarkable pace. As a result, the list of environments and tools we can pull upon to help with business storytelling and presentation design seems to be growing daily. But are they adding value? We explore the world of Virtual Reality Business Presentations to find out if the reality lives up to the hype.
Presentation Training Lessons Learned from Tokyo 2020
The similarities between Olympic glory and presentation training may not be immediately obvious, but dig deeper and words like commitment, teamwork and marginal gains keep cropping up. How do you take your presentation skills training to the next level? Findout more with Eyeful Presentations.
Eating a (Presentation) Elephant
Presentation storytelling, PowerPoint design, and conference presentation management take time. So what happens when you are asked to deliver the impossible? We call it ‘eating an elephant’, and when you are as obsessed with business presentations as we are, it all falls into place naturally.
Presentation Design 2.0 – It might be easy, but is it right?
The purpose of presentation design is to act as visual punctuation to your story and content. No matter how clever the presentation design technology, your deck isn’t much without the basic presentation building blocks (audience, message, content, call to action). No story? No content? No point in presentation design.
When Life Gives You Lemons…
Sometimes things don’t go to plan. It might be a bid, internal comms strategy, or marketing campaign, but while you’ve only just started, you’re already playing catch up! Do you bury your head in the sand or dig deep and reinvigorate your project? Find out how we helped a client do the latter and exceed expectations.
What is Pride?
Pride comes from within; it’s acknowledging the struggles of the people who fought for our rights to love and seeing where we need to go to achieve equality for everyone across the globe.
Slide Farms – Another Kick in the Teeth for Audiences?
What do audiences want? Great presentation storytelling or nice Powerpoint design? Ideally both, but the rise of ‘Slide Farms’ could tip the scales in the wrong direction. Are they feeding the PowerPoint Monster at the cost of audience engagement?
Donning Lycra for Charity (Again)
For quite some time now, I have gotten a bizarre yet very specific kick out of setting myself personal challenges that charities can benefit from. I like the challenges that make people’s faces screw up when you tell them what you are doing –
Building a Better Business – ‘Eyeful Badges’
Presentations are so much more than fancy design and a great presentation company is made up of people who are experts in more than one field…We have incredible storytellers, market leading presentation designers, not forgetting amazing presentation skills trainers. Welcome to Eyeful Presentations.
Train yourself to sales success
Sales & Pitch presentations are interesting beasts. Get them right, and you feel like a Superhero; get them wrong, and you can feel the ground swallowing you up. The team here at Eyeful Presentations want to help you make this the year of improving your skillset (as well as your mindset).
Why NOW is the time for a New Presentation Event
Present To Succeed, a global conference that features the great and the good from the Presentation sector. Learn more about this important event and how to join the thousands of attendees by following the links on the page.
Dedicated Follower of Fashion? Why Your Presentations Skills Need A Capsule Wardrobe
We’re all influenced by fashion (yes, even me). The world of presentations is not immune to the vagaries of fashion. Presentation technology fads come and go with remarkable frequency. Prezi is perhaps the highest-profile of these – its impact on presenters burned bright for some time.
Tech Talk: How to make Zoom Recordings less, um, Zoom-y?
I think it is fair to say we’ve all had enough Zoom meetings. So, if you’re going to share a recording of your meeting.. step away from this tired format. But if the content is valuable, surely it deserves to be captured and shared in the highest quality possible?