Presentation Skills using Microsoft PowerPoint (1 day)

Course Overview

This course is designed to offer you a practical, hands-on demonstration of how you can use Microsoft(R) PowerPoint(R) to improve the quality and effectiveness of your presentations. It helps you to see PowerPoint in a new light, moving beyond the concept that slides are a container for speaker's notes and into a new vision of PowerPoint as a tool that can help you achieve your business goals with more interesting, engaging, and meaningful presentations.

Audience

This course is designed for individuals who rely on presentations to communicate to other people for a range of purposes, including informing, persuading and inspiring. This course is ideal for those who use PowerPoint routinely for presentations, but are mainly familiar with the conventional bullet point approach and want to explore new applications of the software.

Skills Gained

At the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Identify common problems in presentations and identify the common goals of any effective presentation.
• Summarise the main idea of each slide by using a complete sentence in the Title area.
• Maximise the use of the Notes Page feature in PowerPoint.
• Make use of the entire slide area to present graphics and photographs.
• Apply powerful techniques within PowerPoint that can have a big impact on the effectiveness of the presentation.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the fundamental components of a presentation, including a structure that includes a beginning, middle, and end the need to be confident and the desire to engage an audience rather than simply talking at them. Hands-on experience with PowerPoint, including the ability to write and edit text in the title area of slides, Insert, resize, reposition, and manipulate graphics on a slide and work in PowerPoint's various design views, including Normal, Notes Page, and Slide Sorted.

Course Outline

What Is an Effective Presentation?

• Demonstration: Presenting with a Conventional Bullet Point Presentation
• Discussion: Analysing the Presentation Case Study
• Expert Video: Presenting with Clarity and Confidence

Making Presentations More Effective

Maximising the Use of the Notes Page View

The Importance of Moving Spoken Text Off the Screen

Maximising the Use of the Notes Page View

• Exercise 1: Making Use of the Notes Page View in a Student Example
• Exercise 2: Presenting with a Slide Designed in Notes Page View

How a Summary Headline Assists Both Audience and Presenter

• Demonstration: Summarising the Main Idea of a Slide
• Exercise 1: Summarising the Main Idea of a Slide in a Student Example
• Exercise 2: Presenting with a Summary Headline

Using the Full Screen Area to Display Graphics

The Power of Showing Instead of Telling

• Demonstration: Using the Entire Slide Area to Display a Graphic
• Exercise 1: Displaying a Graphic in the Entire Slide Area in a Student Example
• Exercise 2: Presenting with a Full-Screen Graphic

Applying Five Overlooked Techniques to Your Presentations

How Five Overlooked Techniques Can Make a Big Difference

• Demonstration 1: Applying Five Overlooked Techniques
• Exercise: Applying the Five Techniques in a Student Example
• Demonstration 2: Presenting with the New Trey Research Slides
• Discussion: Putting It All Together

Presentation Skills using Microsoft PowerPoint (1 day) / PD-PSPP1