We’ve all had to sit through the ‘death-by-PowerPoint’ experience before! But have you ever asked yourself whether you are inflicting that pain on other people with your own PowerPoint creations?

Sometimes, rather than being an effective aid that compliments a great presentation, visuals are becoming distracting and irritating. They’re too full, too small, too corny, too old, too boring or just too over the top. This programme aims to help presenters develop skills to prepare slide presentations that enable a clearly defined structure and content, are visually congruent with their message and audience friendly. Emphasis is particularly made on how to decode complicated data in a way that speaks to ‘less graph-literate’ audiences.

Introduction

We’ve all had to sit through the ‘death-by-PowerPoint’ experience before!
You’ve seen them all, graphics and tables that are badly constructed, cartoons that move, zoom or explode, ‘ping’ sounds and other strange noises, all of which are completely unrelated to the presentation. Data that is presented instead of results, results presented which cannot be read and often the messages communicated in graphs and tables are obscure, unclear, or too complicated to be understood in the presentation space.
A Presenter’s PowerPoint aims to help presenters develop skills to prepare slide presentations that enable a clearly defined structure and content, are visually congruent with their message and are audience friendly. It focuses on those aspects of PowerPoint, which are most regularly used to create impactful visual aids that compliment a presenter’s message.

Benefits

The ability to present effectively is becoming a minimum expectation for performance, a critical skill in a highly competitive and dynamic business environment and an invaluable tool for improving your position on the totem pole. PowerPoint is the primary tool used, which can either enable or cripple your presentation.
A Presenter’s PowerPoint is designed, firstly, for people who regularly create and deliver presentations using PowerPoint and secondly, for PA’s, secretaries or the PowerPoint expert in the team, individuals who build PowerPoint presentations for someone else.

• Learn to structure and communicate in a simple, interesting and effective manner.
• Understand those aspects of PowerPoint that are most effective when creating a presentation.
• Understand layout principles for visually powerful messages.
• Maximise benefits of using this powerful medium

Logistics

Presenters PowerPoint workshop is a half day/5 hour workshop. Delegates must have a working knowledge of PowerPoint to qualify to attend.