Getting the Best from

PowerPoint

Stand & Deliver: Master the art of memorable presentations

  • Do your PowerPoint slides look dull and lifeless?
  • Do you struggle with slide transitions and timing?
  • Is it difficult to maintain consistent formatting?
  • Do you find presentations tedious to update?
  • Are your data charts static and hard to interpret?
  • Do you feel anxious when presenting?
  • Do your slides contain too much text?
  • Is it tricky navigating through complex presentations?
  • Do you reuse slides but can’t customize easily?
  • Does conveying key messages prove challenging?

If so, then the Getting the Best from PowerPoint course will help you.

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AT A GLANCE

Audience

This course equips business professionals with advanced PowerPoint skills to create high-impact presentations. Attendees will learn to expertly design professional slides tailored to diverse audiences and convey ideas clearly.

Format ​

  • 1 day, instructor-led web-based virtual classroom sessions

What’s Included

  • Comprehensive Learning Guide
  • Subscription to our monthly LearningLink e-newsletter

Presentations That Persuade and Captivate

Learn how to prepare and present slides systematically and professionally and to rapidly build visually-appealing presentations that engage and persuade.

This course will help you:

  • Build high quality audience-appropriate presentations quickly and expertly
  • Engage your audiences with smart use of animations and transitions
  • Incorporate and animate charts and data from Microsoft excel
  • Navigate long presentations smoothly
  • Polish your presentation delivery
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What you will learn

Efficient Slide Design

Learn to rapidly build slick, professional slides using templates, themes, and Masters for efficient formatting. Use handy tools like gridlines and guides to perfect layouts.

Engaging Visuals

Make dull data pop by animating charts and figures. Use animations and transitions strategically to emphasize key points. Learn best practices for inserting illustrations.

Seamless Delivery

Master smooth presentations through features like Zoom and linking to seamlessly transition between concepts. Use Action Buttons to effortlessly pull in external content.

Polished Presentation Skills

Hone delivery skills for confident, convincing presentations. Practice structural feedback skills to critique peers. Embed learning through hands-on work building sample presentations.

Detailed Synopsis

Upon completing this course, you will be able to build high quality, audience-appropriate presentations quickly and expertly using PowerPoint.

Building the Presentation

  • Selecting templates and themes
  • Using Masters to save time and establish a consistent look
  • Inserting Sections to organise the presentation
  • Establishing consistency and balance in slides using:
  • View (Gridlines, Guides & Ruler) to position objects accurately
  • Group/ungroup to expedite copying and create conformity
  • Eyedropper to maintain exact colour matching
  • Naming objects on slides to help compound navigations and Triggers

Engaging the Audience

  • Getting the best out of Animations and Triggers to synchronise speech and visuals
  • Using the right Transitions to highlight changes of topic and movement from slide to slide
  • Inserting Illustrations to create impact
  • Deploying Insert and zoom for seamless navigation

Connecting to Supporting Data and Objects

  • Using Link and pre-programmed Action Buttons to call up external items
  • Inserting linked files and charts
  • Animating charts

Delivering Presentations

  • Participants will deliver presentations to the group and receive structured feedback from their fellow participants and the course leader.
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This technical training course is made available to you through our strategic partnership with “Professional Training Solutions Limited”. Thanks to this partnership we can deliver top-notch technical training for both beginners and experts.

Our technical training programs are tailored to help you keep up with the dynamic business environment through state-of-the-art training and continuous support. With our training, you can rest assured that your business is current and efficient.

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