I am sure we have all attended many presentation sessions and we came out either being wowed or extremely disappointed and sometimes lost. It is not because the topic was not interesting or the content was not meaningful. Very often it is how they were presented verbally and visually.

Many factors contribute to an effective and great presentation that will wow the audience. One of those many factors is the application of carefully selected transition effects. I call them Magical effects, because these are the final touches of the visuals that will bring our presentations to life.

Is less really more? Annoyed, we have always been, by the tons of spam emails that we get in our mailbox everyday. Not to mention popup ads that obstructs our surfing experience, robbing our time and requiring our extra efforts to close the popup ads or clear our mailbox from unwanted emails.

Now, let us relate this to information we received during a presentation session. Are we getting thrown with information on slides that we can't read? Are these extras necessary or are they there to clutter the screen? Let's examine how we can effectively present information using charts.

Looking your best ensures that you start your day with great confidence. Putting on your best outfit, nails trimmed, hair jelled builds confidence.

We have always groomed ourselves for success, but why not our presentation slides? Adding graphic elements to our slides can enhance the visual impact and make our slides interesting. Knowing how to treat those graphic elements will make our slides insanely great.

Your presentation slides can be amazingly better with just minor changes to the way you create them. We have always been constrained by bullet style templates that came with the software we use. If we just think out of the box and move away from the bullet style, we can create slides that are much more interesting and amazingly sticky. Here is a couple of slides extracted from a presentation to show you the before and after effects of Amazing Sticky Presentations.

This issue of the Young Professionals magazine comes with refinements in its layout design. Departmental tabs were made smaller and refined to ensure proper blend with the page content. Instead of using Dropcap to start each story, the first two to three words were enlarged for this purpose. As usual, we used real life images and candid shots as much as possible.