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Effective PowerPoint Presentations
PowerPoint is a most useful tool for the presenter. It is also the most misused tool. It has coined phrases such as ‘Death by PowerPoint’, ‘Bullet Point maze’, and MEGO*. The reality is most PowerPoint presentations have little ‘Power’, and often lose the ‘Point. (*Mine Eyes Glaze Over)! Contact Us.
Make your PowerPoint Slide enhance your message!
How to create an effective power point presentation
PowerPoint slides can be easily and quickly created. However, whether they enhance or detract from yoru message is another issue. To be honest, how many times do you see a slide presentation and inwardly groan? The answer according to recent surveys is at least half the time. We will train you to present, and will train you to present with PowerPoint. However there are some occasions when you feel confident in yoru presentation ability but less confident with your slides.
We can help! In full confidence, you can send your presentation to us, we will critically analyse your slides, and then discuss with you possible improvements. You can either do these yourself, let us do them, or for more involved alterations, complete presentation shows, we can refer you to our associates who will offer a complete design package tailored to your needs and in line with our advice.
- Lose the dreaded bullet points in favour of slides that add interest
- Avoid the common mistakes that surveys show cause your message to be lost
- Know that your slides work for you rather than against
If you wish to have a training session to help you deliver your new slides to maximum impact, we will be pleased to offer that and make an adjustment to the course fees in respect of part of the analysis costs.
Whether you think your slides need some help, your presentation technique needs advice, or you just want to move up a league when using slides, you need our advice.
In the Powerpoint training course you will
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of PowerPoint
- Learn to use PowerPoint to tap into the way adults learn
- Discover alternatives to bullet points
- Avoid mis-using the three main components of the programme
Learn specific techniques that presenters should observe when using PP - Gain confidence in delivery techniques based on knowing your material is not outdated in style, content or delivery.
- Create an effective power point presentation
This course is not a course to teach you the mechanics of preparing creative PowerPoint slides. It assumes that you have some knowledge of the programme, or an assistant who prepares slides to your instruction. It is also assumed that you have developed some general presentation skills through earlier courses or experience. (For example see our Intermediate Presentation Course).
STOP Getting it wrong, START getting it right !
- Stop having badly designed slides
- Stop having long lists of bullet points
- Stop the silent groaning of your audience as you switch the projector on
- Start to dramatically improve your presentations
- Start to stimulate the cognitive retention of your material
- Start impressing your audience with your ability to put information across.
If you want to add the WOW factor - take a course and our slide advice together.
- Learn some simple techniques
- Avoid the pitfalls
- Let PowerPoint complement your speaking
- Deliver material with the maximum effect
- Stand out from the crowd and be memorable, effective and powerful