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Overview:
This course is designed to offer you a practical, hands-on demonstration of how you can use Microsoft PowerPoint 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.
Learning Method:
This course uses a combination of instructor presentation, and student hands-on practical exercises. Participants will have the opportunity to apply what they have learned in the classroom throughout the course.
Who will benefit from this course?
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 group must communicate by public speaking, including formal meetings, impromptu gatherings, teaching and public speaking to professional groups and other audiences.
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.
Pre-requisites:
Before attending this course, you must have:
- The functional need to make presentations to audiences of different types, for a range of business reasons.
- 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.
- Work in PowerPoint’s various design views, including Normal, Notes Page, and Slide Sorter.
- Print documents using PowerPoint’s print feature.
- Advance slides during a live presentation using the keyboard
Most of these skills are covered in Course 703: Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Intermediate.
What can you expect to gain from this course?
After completing this course, students 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.
Course content:
Module 1:Presenting Clearly and Confidently with PowerPoint
- The module introduces new approaches that you can apply to create more effective PowerPoint presentations and it describes the basic criteria for defining the effectiveness of a presentation, from the perspectives of both presenters and audiences.
- 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
Module 2:Maximising the Use of the Notes Page View
- This module shows you how to simplify the layout of a slide by shifting on-screen information into the Notes Area. This simple but powerful technique will help you expand the space available to present information.
- 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 example
- Exercise 2: Presenting with a slide designed in notes page view
Module 3:Summarising the Main Idea of a Slide
- This module demonstrates how you can more clearly communicate your ideas by summarising the main idea of a slide in a complete sentence. This technique helps the audience and the presenter keep track of the key point of the slide.
- 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 an example
- Exercise 2: Presenting with a summary headline
Module 4:Using the Full Screen Area to Display Graphics
- This module illustrates the power of using the full screen area to display graphics. Because many presenters shrink graphics down to sizes that lose their visual impact, this module helps you to maximise the impact of the visuals on your slides.
- 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 an example
- Exercise 2: Presenting with a full-screen graphic
Module 5:Applying Five Overlooked Techniques to Your Presentations
- This module highlights five overlooked techniques that can help you increase the effectiveness of your presentations. Although most presenters are familiar with the basic set of techniques, they may not be aware that their delivery can quickly improve by using this additional set of techniques.
- How five overlooked techniques can make a big difference
- Demonstration 1: Applying five overlooked techniques
- Exercise: Applying the five techniques in an example
- Demonstration 2: Presenting with the new trey research slides
- Discussion: Putting it all together