Course Outline

Preparing Effective Presentations
Course Description: Have you felt unprepared or nervous about your presentations and speaking to groups? Want to raise the bar on your presentations to your customers or your executive team? This course teaches you how to prepare effective, professional presentations, keeping the audience’s objectives in mind, holding their attention and achieving your desired results. Students learn how to organize a presentation clearly and effectively using appropriate content, supporting materials and visual aids.

Main Objectives:

  • Learn to prepare and organize effective presentations with a defined purpose, attention-getting opening and a powerful conclusion.
  • Analyze your audience to select the proper type of presentation for optimal impact.
  • Effectively utilize Multimedia tools for visual aids and display.
  • Develop a memorable and effective style of presentation delivery.

Topics/Agenda:

    Introduction

    • Six Steps to Effective Presentations
    • Evaluate Yourself
      • What type of speaker are you?
      • Assess your current presentation skills

    CREATING CONTENT FOR PRESENTATIONS

    Planning a Presentation

    • Purpose of PowerPoint
    • Planning your Presentation
    • Purpose of Presentation
    • Types of presentations
    • The 4 P’s: The top 4 concepts to consider in planning your presentation
    • Audience Analysis
    • Audience Learning Styles
    • Presentation Analysis

    Preparing a Presentation

    • Brainstorm Ideas
    • Using Outline View

    Building Presentations

    • Organize your Ideas for Impact
    • Slide Sorter View
    • Speaker Notes
    • Presentation Formula
    • “Attention Getting” Introduction
    • Presentation Body
    • “Powerful” Close
    • Effective Transitions
    • Organize your Thoughts
    • Presentation Outline

    EFFECTIVE DESIGN FOR PRESENTATIONS

    Visual Aids

    • List of Visual Aids
    • Multimedia Approach
    • Visual Clarity
    • Types of Charts and Graphs
    • Inserting an Excel File
    • Slides and other Visual Aids
    • Handouts

    Working with Images

    • Picture Toolbar
    • Picture Border
    • Washout Color
    • Image as Slide Background
    • Cropping
    • Recolor Clip Art

    Visual Clarity

    • Visual Design & Use
    • Preparing a Slide Design
    • Principals of Effective Design
    • 4 Design Principals
    • Slide Design
    • Slide Design Ideas

    Prerequisites:  PowerPoint Level Two or equivalent experience.

    Revised 8/18/2011
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