Presentation Skills & PowerPoint
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Introduction
This is a two-day course on a Monday and a Friday, with 3 days' break in between to put some of your learning into practice!.
To become a master presenter, you need to become an expert in using PowerPoint visual aids as well as learn how to speak so others will listen. In this unique workshop, you will learn from David Benaim - one of Microsoft's Most Valued Professionals, who gives presentations almost every week in different ways and is considered by Microsoft to be one of the top 100 or so Excel/PowerPoint people globally.
Each participant should prepare a 5-minute presentation before the workshop to have ready for day one of the workshop and then will prepare a second one to give on the final day.
Learning Objectives for Participants
By the end of the workshop participants should be able to:
Produce better PowerPoints and in less time
Get content from PowerPoint’s 10,000s of built in stock content or using google search tricks
Use a checklist advising how many words/objects per slide
Break out of bullet point boredom with presentations applicable to the 2020s
Build and structure presentations to be captivating and engaging
Present confidently
How online presentations can differ from face to face ones
Make use of PowerPoint’s AI presentation coach tool and slide designer
Syllabus
Each session is half a day
Session 1 –Master PowerPoint objects
Using Images
Using shapes & text
Diagrams & Icons
Data & charts
Graphic design tricks to have readable text over images
How much text to have & what size
Convert bullet lists into beautiful diagrams in 3 clicks
Which visualisation? & using colour to make certain aspects stand out
Picture editing tools within PowerPoint
Shapes vs text boxes vs placeholders
Choose from 10,000s of built in stock images
Why you many times don’t need a chart
Google image tools you've never seen before
Secrets of pasting between PowerPoint files
PowerPoint’s built in icons that it treats like shapes, recolour & resize
Why waterfall charts are the best for storytellin
Session 2 – Presentation skills
1st presentation
Structure diagrams
Storytelling
Multi slide sequences
5-minute presentations from each participant
Why you should never start in PowerPoint
How to craft a good yet business appropriate story
Storytelling for data & more via linked slides
Watch each other’s talks & relevant TED talks
How to start, end & how many sections is optimal
PPT tricks to maximise storytelling
The new “Section Zoom” feature for a clickable interactive agenda
Feedback from trainer, AI and other participants
How to use PowerPoint's sections tool
Learn from inspirational TED talks
Video-like sequences with using PowerPoint’s Morph
Session 3 – (One week after sessions 1-2): Working with your audience
Online presentation skills
Audience interaction
Voice & tonality
Presentations vs brochures
How online is different
Special text boxes to type live audience suggestions in slideshow mode
Why voice awareness is important
See how visual slides aren't reading docs
Advanced screenshare tricks
Creating polls on PowerPoint
Exercise with saying in different tones
Understand the dangers in combining the two
Using polls in online meetings for feedback
Facilitating discussions between participants
Keep an ear out for the crucial factor
Learn a method to create something to send
Session 4 - Final tips
Final presentation & feedback
Slide surgery
Dealing with stage fright
Video & animations
Petcha Kutcha style presentations
Tricks to edit multiple slides in one go
Tricks to edit multiple slides in one go
Basic animations & which to use
Reflection from speaker, others & trainer
Quickly fix pictures & shapes out of proportion
Quickly fix pictures & shapes out of proportion
Editing video within PowerPoint
Looking out for tone, slides & structure
Exploring PowerPoint's viewing options
Exploring PowerPoint's viewing options
When to avoid video & animations
Concepts Throughout
95% biz talks are deemed boring
Get a slide recipe book
Gamification element
We teach a drastically new style
Type live in slideshow mode
Participants split into 2 teams
Images replacing words
Checklists, icons, docs
Points allocated throughout course
Storytelling and structure
Tools for full screen image & video effects
Prize at end for winning team (USB full of useful content)
Investment: £599 for both days including lunch, CPD Certificate & Post-Course resources
Register via cm9ja2xlYXJuaW5nZ2liIHwgZ21haWwgISBjb20= or send whatsapp to Jo on 0044 7419 993491.
Limited places.
This is a two-day course on a Monday and a Friday, with 3 days' break in between to put some of your learning into practice!.
To become a master presenter, you need to become an expert in using PowerPoint visual aids as well as learn how to speak so others will listen. In this unique workshop, you will learn from David Benaim - one of Microsoft's Most Valued Professionals, who gives presentations almost every week in different ways and is considered by Microsoft to be one of the top 100 or so Excel/PowerPoint people globally.
Each participant should prepare a 5-minute presentation before the workshop to have ready for day one of the workshop and then will prepare a second one to give on the final day.
Learning Objectives for Participants
By the end of the workshop participants should be able to:
Produce better PowerPoints and in less time
Get content from PowerPoint’s 10,000s of built in stock content or using google search tricks
Use a checklist advising how many words/objects per slide
Break out of bullet point boredom with presentations applicable to the 2020s
Build and structure presentations to be captivating and engaging
Present confidently
How online presentations can differ from face to face ones
Make use of PowerPoint’s AI presentation coach tool and slide designer
Syllabus
Each session is half a day
Session 1 –Master PowerPoint objects
Using Images
Using shapes & text
Diagrams & Icons
Data & charts
Graphic design tricks to have readable text over images
How much text to have & what size
Convert bullet lists into beautiful diagrams in 3 clicks
Which visualisation? & using colour to make certain aspects stand out
Picture editing tools within PowerPoint
Shapes vs text boxes vs placeholders
Choose from 10,000s of built in stock images
Why you many times don’t need a chart
Google image tools you've never seen before
Secrets of pasting between PowerPoint files
PowerPoint’s built in icons that it treats like shapes, recolour & resize
Why waterfall charts are the best for storytellin
Session 2 – Presentation skills
1st presentation
Structure diagrams
Storytelling
Multi slide sequences
5-minute presentations from each participant
Why you should never start in PowerPoint
How to craft a good yet business appropriate story
Storytelling for data & more via linked slides
Watch each other’s talks & relevant TED talks
How to start, end & how many sections is optimal
PPT tricks to maximise storytelling
The new “Section Zoom” feature for a clickable interactive agenda
Feedback from trainer, AI and other participants
How to use PowerPoint's sections tool
Learn from inspirational TED talks
Video-like sequences with using PowerPoint’s Morph
Session 3 – (One week after sessions 1-2): Working with your audience
Online presentation skills
Audience interaction
Voice & tonality
Presentations vs brochures
How online is different
Special text boxes to type live audience suggestions in slideshow mode
Why voice awareness is important
See how visual slides aren't reading docs
Advanced screenshare tricks
Creating polls on PowerPoint
Exercise with saying in different tones
Understand the dangers in combining the two
Using polls in online meetings for feedback
Facilitating discussions between participants
Keep an ear out for the crucial factor
Learn a method to create something to send
Session 4 - Final tips
Final presentation & feedback
Slide surgery
Dealing with stage fright
Video & animations
Petcha Kutcha style presentations
Tricks to edit multiple slides in one go
Tricks to edit multiple slides in one go
Basic animations & which to use
Reflection from speaker, others & trainer
Quickly fix pictures & shapes out of proportion
Quickly fix pictures & shapes out of proportion
Editing video within PowerPoint
Looking out for tone, slides & structure
Exploring PowerPoint's viewing options
Exploring PowerPoint's viewing options
When to avoid video & animations
Concepts Throughout
95% biz talks are deemed boring
Get a slide recipe book
Gamification element
We teach a drastically new style
Type live in slideshow mode
Participants split into 2 teams
Images replacing words
Checklists, icons, docs
Points allocated throughout course
Storytelling and structure
Tools for full screen image & video effects
Prize at end for winning team (USB full of useful content)
Investment: £599 for both days including lunch, CPD Certificate & Post-Course resources
Register via cm9ja2xlYXJuaW5nZ2liIHwgZ21haWwgISBjb20= or send whatsapp to Jo on 0044 7419 993491.
Limited places.
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