Making Powerful Presentations Using PowerPoint

Power up your presentations!

Overview

Learn and apply time-proven communication and design principles that will help you create clear, effective, and powerful presentations.

Audience

This course is intended for users who need to make powerful presentations using PowerPoint

Length

1 day

Outline

Lesson 1: Designing a Presentation

  • Planning
  • Identify the purpose of your presentation
  • Establish key points
  • Identify your target audience
  • Gathering Information
  • The most important part of any presentation is the content
  • Good content = quality research
  • Know what you want to say
  • Identify Key Points
  • Identify the core message
  • State the objective
  • Identify your main topics and subtopics; they become your slide titles
  • Determine the Purpose

Lesson 2: Types of Presentations

  • Persuade
  • Inform
  • Build goodwill
  • Relay information
  • Know Your Audience
  • Who is your audience?
  • What is their understanding of the topic?
  • What do they need to know?
  • What are their expectations?
  • What type of presentation?
  • Identify
  • Roadblocks to understanding
  • Best approach to present
  • What elements make a message credible
  • What facts persuade
  • How much time is allotted
  • Location of your presentation
  • Who are the Subject Matter Experts
  • Support Audience Interest
  • Provide clear benefits
  • Keep audience’s needs primary
  • Cover the material stated
  • Stay within schedule
  • Leave time for discussion and questions
  • Using handouts and supporting materials
  • Planning Review
  • What is the best way to research your topic?
  • Why is it important to identify the purpose of your presentation?

Lesson 3: Writing and Content

  • Create an outline
  • Move a Word outline to PowerPoint
  • Identify four outline styles
  • Name the three types of tone that can be used in your writing style
  • Explain why visual maps might be used
  • Create an Outline
  • Design and Graphics
  • Identify the elements of good design
  • Create a design template
  • Modify a slide master
  • Insert slides from another presentation
  • Identify best fonts for presentation
  • Identify best colors for your presentation
  • Understand concepts for placing graphics

Lesson 4: Design and Graphics

  • What Design Is Not About
  • What Design Is About
  • Design Considerations
  • Case Principles
  • Style Principles
  • Symbols Principles
  • Boxes & Lines
  • Spacing Principles
  • Slide Masters
  • Presentation Template
  • Color Considerations

Lesson 5: Visuals

  • Crop and compress pictures
  • Insert Excel Charts
  • Use screen shots
  • Proof your presentation
  • Use slide transition and animations
  • Prepare presentations for viewing
  • Share presentations with others
  • Using Visuals

Lesson 6: Managing your time

  • Planning
  • Slide to time ratio = 3 minutes each
  • Check points (agenda and clock)
  • Coordinate with other presenters
  • Determine timing of questions
  • Leave time for questions/discussion
  • Tips for Presenting
  • Make eye contact
  • Don’t apologize.
  • Be positive
  • Never say “This is just to show…”
  • Don’t be afraid to say, “I don’t know.”
  • Do not read your talk

Lesson 7: Practice, Practice, Practice