These slides show how Liverpool Science Park offers facilities, support and other benefits to relocating businesses, with a large network of contacts in the scientific and digital community.

The card illustrates the lifestyle changes to come with elegant animation and images. Be warned though – it may leave some of your colleagues wishing for early retirement!

Download the PowerPoint retirement card file, for free.

These slides show how Abilitor Utveckling works with its clients to provide efficiency consultancy and training, leading to a happier and more productive workforce. The slides outline a common problem scenario, and then demonstrate how Abilitor Utveckling can provide a solution.

m62 reworked these slides for our PowerPoint Clinic, showing how visual slides can effectively display complex information.

Is somebody in your organisation leaving? Do you need a PowerPoint leaving card, or retirement card? Well, we’ve produced just the thing.

All good things come to an end. Close colleagues leave. Great people retire. Yet PowerPoint is eternal.

This animated PowerPoint card shows – in a fun way – that sometimes when someone leaves, they are missed. Send your colleague on their way with a clever card, and perhaps they’ll even be able to forget some of the terrible PowerPoint presentations they had to sit through!

To customise this card with your own logo, you need to do about a minute of work with PowerPoint. Download the PowerPoint file, below. On the last slide, right click on the red square (the one that says ‘insert logo’). Select ‘Format Autoshape’, and then in the ‘Color’ drop-down menu, select ‘Fill Effect’. Then select the ‘Picture’ tab at the top, and from there, simply select an image file from your own computer. This will fill the square with your image. Click on the [Insert Logo] text and delete it (as you won’t need it anymore), and then save your work. Any problems, let us know in the comments.

Download our animated PowerPoint Leaving Card, for free. Adieu!

‘Tis the season to be jolly… tra la la la la, la la la la.

Looking for PowerPoint Christmas slides, to send to colleagues, associates, friends, and family? These free slides, which you can download and adapt by typing in your own company name, are pretty subtle, yet have a touch of humour for those wanting to spread a bit of joy at this time of year.

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, and Father Christmas, driving and then flying off into the distance, all done in PowerPoint. Bullet points? Who needs bullet points?

Download PowerPoint Christmas Slides

P.S. Don’t worry about the use of ‘2010′ in the file name for these slides. They aren’t just for PowerPoint 2010 – they work in PowerPoint 2003 and up.

If a Master Vendor setup is employed, this Vendor can end up doing most of the work. This can result in subcontractors putting in less effort and producing work of a lower standard, as the job is not as important to them.

Setting up a Vendor Neutral arrangement ensure that there is no bias among the vendors, who all have a perceived fair chance to obtain work. This ensures a high quality of work from each vendor, and overall success.

Download this slide for use in your own presentations.

Use this slide in your own sales presentation by downloading it and changing the template to your own. When competing for business against competitors of a different size, attempt to paint them as either too small or too large and anonymous to deliver the work effectively.

Download Personal Attention slides

Each existing member of a team has a wide range of experience and expertise, which can be invaluable to the company. If new recruits are trained using the best of these, a high level of competence can be encouraged from the beginning, so that first practice for new recruits becomes best practice.

Download Best Practice slides

To celebrate the forthcoming World Cup finals in South Africa, we’ve combined two of our favourite things, to bring you a PowerPoint  goal. Not just any goal – one of the greatest goals of all time, recreated using PowerPoint.

The vast majority of this sequence was created and animated exclusively in PowerPoint. Don’t believe us? Download the slides to see for yourself.

We don’t expect anybody to use these slides in a business presentation. Not unless you want to present on the merits of teamwork (this was, after all, one of the great team goals). But the next time we hear somebody complain that PowerPoint is boring, and that bullet points are boring… well, just remember, that PowerPoint is a tool, and if a presenter just reads loads of text, it’s because they weren’t trying to have enough fun.

Download our PowerPoint football slides

P.S. In general, we think that PowerPoint probably isn’t the best medium for recreating famous goals. But we might try again anyway. Let us know if you have any sporting moments you would like us to attempt.

With businesses now catering for clients around the world, many companies find themselves having to operate in multiple timezones. This can create communication difficulties, resulting in poor availability and delays.  With locations around the world,  a company can work with clients in different timezones, keeping service demand matched with service supply.

Adapt and use in your own sales presentations, to explain the benefits of your global presence.

Download Global Presence slides

At every conference, your audience will want to know when to expect a lunch or coffee break, and what better way to do this than by using these stylish PowerPoint slides? Include them in your introductory presentation, or simply display them in the background during a break.

These easily-editable slides provide an appetising background for displaying your break times.

Find these slides useful? Have ideas for PowerPoint resources you would like to see? Let us know in the comments.

Download the Conference Slides

This PowerPoint timer looks like a digital countdown timer (from a famous Fox TV show); we also have a more retro PowerPoint countdown timer for those who prefer that look.

Simply download the PowerPoint slides, set the timer by starting on the correct slide, hit F5, and off you go. Have a great event – remember, your slides will be more effective if you don’t use bullet points.

Download Digital Clock Countdown

This PowerPoint countdown timer can be displayed on screen at your event, making it absolutely clear to everybody when the next session should start. Build anticipation, ensure the room is settled on time, and keep things running smoothly.

This countdown timer is twenty minutes long, with one minute per slide.

This timer is produced in PowerPoint – please download the file for your own use. It can be placed onto your own template or background. Choose how much time to run the countdown for by starting on the appropriate slide.

Download PowerPoint Countdown Timer

This slide shows supply chain stability, achieved through maintaining a set of suppliers. If one supplier fails to deliver, others can take that supplier’s place. This ensures that supply is constant.

This slide can have a diferent template applied for use in your own presentations. The colours will adapt to suit.

Download these supply chain stability slides for use in your own presentation.

Keele University Maternity Centre are part of Keele University Hospital, providing maternity services for the North Staffordshire area.

This sequence of slides introduces some of the emergency equipment available in the maternity centre as well as examples of how to accurately diagnose specific types of maternity emergency events.

Efficient allocation of jobs to carriers keeps costs down, and so is good in the long-run for those sending goods to be transported.

This slide shows a visual treatment of an issue in transport and logistics. You can download and use it in your own presentations. It can be easily edited and re-skinned.

Download these carrier routes logistics slides for use in your own presentation.

This slide can be used in your own technology and computing presentations. The template can be changed, and the slide will take on the colours of your new template.

Download and use these data verification slides in your own presentations.

Businesses should sell intelligently during a recession. Focus on selling profitable services to the right customers, while ensuring cash flow remains strong.

Businesses need to know if the projects they sell will damage their cash flow. These issues become more relevant during a recession, when cash can be tight.

Accurate cash flow forecasting allows businesses to be clear on whether they will have enough cash to complete a job and receive payment while still having cash available to continue as a going concern.

Small businesses can consider factoring, or invoice-chasing services, to ensure that cash is available to continue trading.

Credit checks can help businesses decide whether to ask for payment in advance where the business is thought to be at risk of non-payment.

As well as only making payments to those likely to pay, and for work that can be delivered, it also makes sense to focus on work that is profitable, and attractive from a cash-flow perspective.

If you would like an editable copy of these PowerPoint slides for your own use, please leave a comment below. Make sure you give your email address so we can send you the slides – but don’t worry, it won’t be displayed or shared.

In addition, because the entire business may need to be involved in winning new business, sales training for those on the operational side of a business may be useful. These employees can help farm for new business, and work with sales people to close deals.

Not everybody is comfortable hunting for new business, but those currently dealing with customers can work to bring in new business by identifying needs. This can be done by cross-selling services.

Existing customers are able to help identify portfolio gaps – areas where a business could successfully offer services to customers.

If you would like an editable copy of these PowerPoint slides for your own use, please leave a comment below. Make sure you give your email address so we can send you the slides – but don’t worry, it won’t be displayed or shared.

Instead of leaving sales to the dedicated sales team alone, businesses should engage the entire company in a sales effort. By ensuring more people sell – including those in operations and delivery teams – a business can sell more, increasing market share, even within a declining market.

If you would like an editable copy of these PowerPoint slides for your own use, please leave a comment below. Make sure you give your email address so we can send you the slides – but don’t worry, it won’t be displayed or shared.