PowerPoint Presentation Training Course

Building Compelling PowerPoint Presentations Course

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This two day open course on Creating Impactful PowerPoint Presentations is suitable for anyone who has a grip on the basics of using PowerPoint but wants to learn how to create truly engaging, compelling and impactful presentations.

Building Powerful and Impactful PowerPoint Presentation courses are run by

Julie Wales - David Bliss

This is a 2 day course which looks at how you can make your PowerPoint presentations work in more compelling ways.

This is not a technical course, nor is it around the soft skills side of the delivery of the presentation. It is about finessing the flow of ideas within your presentation (whether you use PowerPoint or not) to achieve the impact and outcomes you seek.

Our key messages will be around Content, Visuals and Support - How you can shape your content into compelling PowerPoint presentations. How you can best exploit the visual strengths of the medium. How you could best support your key messages, your audience’s engagement, as well as yourself as a presenter to be your most effective next time.

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PowerPoint Presentation Training Objectives :

*Creating compelling, engaging and dynamic PowerPoint presentations
*Unpicking the powerful principles which underpin gripping stories
*Focusing your key messages within a dynamic narrative
*Promoting clarity, interest and exploration of your content
*Exploring convincing and effective ways to structure your presentations
*Cranking up the persuasive potential of your ideas
*Breathing life into your values
*Encouraging buy-in and stakeholder engagement
*Using storyboards to build on your presentation strengths
*Troubleshooting worst-case scenarios
*Revising your presentation to suit different audiences and purposes

Building Compelling PowerPoint Presentation Course Programme

The course content may include many of the exercises listed below, and any additional material that the trainers feel is relevant to the delegates on the day.

Content

Our focus will be upon using PowerPoint to take your audience on a journey. From enticing them to join you (even when their first instincts may be to resist what’s on offer), to keeping them with you (when they’d rather be nodding off) - we will investigate how to ensure that your audience arrive at the destination you chose.

To milk the metaphor to death – whether over the rocky bits, the stickier content or the trickier terrain, we will explore together what you can do to build compelling PowerPoint presentations.

Visuals

As well as focussing upon ways to structure and organise your ideas and content into convincing presentations. We will also cover how to use PowerPoint as the powerful visual aid it can be - to create visually interesting storyboards.

We will look at what works from a visual point of view - the aesthetics of your slides and how they help or hinder your key messages.

Support

We will focus on ways to help finesse your content and the visual messages you relay - in ways which support you, the audience and your key messages themselves.

We have a smorgasbord of suggestions to share – it will be for each person to decide which choices best suit their style and needs, as well as the sorts of audiences your presentations need to inform, satisfy, impress or persuade.

Whether you have to deal with complex, dry or detailed concepts, whether you have to ensure that you have secured their ‘buy in’, or whether you just need to present your content in ways which are more focussed, clear and compelling, we recommend this course. It is a staple for anyone whose daily bread revolves around giving effective and compelling PowerPoint presentations.

In a nutshell, we will be looking at how to get the most out of the medium (as opposed to using it as a tired prop which may just be going through the motions). We will look at ways to hook your audience and also ways to help them navigate through your content and key messages.

As we work with maximum group sizes of 8 participants, each presenter will enjoy the focused attention of a trainer and a maximum of 4 of their peers.

Takeaways and Handouts

Everyone will be offered a variety of useful handouts and aide-memoires as reminders of our top tips, tools and strategies. Delegates may also choose to take away a few of our most relevant Impact Factory documents.

Web Cards

These cards give each person free access to our extensive library of helpful documents.