Use PowerPoint professionally and distinguish yourself as a presenter with techniques from this intensive one-day workshop. You’ll learn how to use PowerPoint to augment your messagerather than detract from it with tacky bells and whistles. Discover how to use PowerPoint’sadvanced tools to open your audience to new ideas or change; to help you connect with your audience in a sincere rather than a forced way; and how to persuade, educate and inform.

You’ll become aware of some of PowerPoint’s critical limitations, learn how to avoid using it as a Presenter’s Crutch, end PowerPoint Hypnosis, and when not to use it at all.

Get the technical skills of PowerPoint– from using audio, video and charts to creating automated web-based training– along with the presentation and design principles you’ll need to succeed.

Agenda

1. Planning your presentation: Setting professionals apart from mere slide-show presenters
   
2. Principles of slide-layout design,color scheme, theme and transition
3. Mechanics of slide design: Text, Pictures, Charts, Audio and Video
4. Finding professional graphical content vs. cookie cutter clip-art
5. Time-saving tricks and tips for creating and editing presentations
6. When and when not to use PowerPoint to prepare your presentation, handouts and notes
7. Limitations and dangers of PowerPoint
8. Avoiding "PowerPoint Hypnosis" & adding your own personality to your presentations
9. Using other Microsoft Office programs - including Excel & Visio - in your presentations
10. Creating self-running, interactive presentations and training modules
11. Finding additional tools to expand PowerPoint's functionality
12. Putting it all together: Delivery
13. Evaluating your presentation's effectiveness