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Certificate Program
Provided by Impact Factory
This two day Public Structuring Creative PowerPoint Presentations Course 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.
Participants will unpick all that is involved in putting together effective and convincing presentations. You will learn to defy 'Death by PowerPoint' and practice ways to achieve real impact.
Borrowing from classical story telling structures and film storyboarding, we'll overturn dull traditional PowerPoint conventions and share fresh ideas to achieve professional, polished and dynamic PowerPoint presentations. Presentations that promote buy-in and by their climax have persuaded their audiences of their key messages.
Our workshop will look at everything you need from ways to get started, to structuring your ideas and focusing the key messages of your compelling story. After applying some of the insights gained on Day One, Day Two gives everyone a chance to revise their next presentation, practice its delivery and receive constructive feedback. We will concentrate on bringing together the powerful tool you have created - your compelling PowerPoint presentation - with the essential presentation skills that will make your ideas come to life.
We aim to inspire participants so they can't wait to apply these fresh ideas to their next presentation
Related Awards, Degrees or Certifications: Impact Factory Continuing Professional Development completion certificate
Related Jobs or Careers: For anyone wo wants to defy 'Death by PowerPoint' and practice ways to achieve real impact.
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PowerPoint Presentation SkillsTraining
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
Day One
Day One - Basic Principles
Defining Death by PowerPoint
We'll look at the sorts of experiences participants have had as members of the audience or as 'inflictors'. This will be an opportunity to make explicit what makes for the best and worst PowerPoint Presentations.
PowerPoint as a Communication Tool
We will unpick what delegates already know about how communication works and how that applies specifically to PowerPoint communications.
Impact
What does it really mean? We'll look at how our IMPACT mnemonic relates to PowerPoint presentations and the use of powerful storylines.
Hands Up
Here we will ask delegates to put their hands up to those traps they fall into. How do they feel about presenting with PowerPoint? How much is expected of them? What do they want from the day?
Content
Where to start?
Firstly content. How to get off the starting blocks and then achieve logical flow and clarity in structuring your ideas? How to be sure that your key purpose is served by your presentation?
Using Signposts
The next step is to look at how best to support your audience on your presentation s narrative journey to focus your main message.
Achieving Focus in One Minute
Using sample PowerPoint presentations we will share our favourite way to focus and deliver a clear key message.
Fit for Purpose
As we maintain in all our work, one size fits all is not our style. Certainly, in terms of the diverse range of stakeholders faced by most of the delegates we work with, our participants need to know how to adapt their presentations to resonate with different audiences and to achieve different purposes. We explore ways to fine tune your presentation story threads.
Moving Beyond Bullet Points
How can you develop your ideas beyond the clear and logical, to borrow from more compelling stories and engaging structures? How can you promote buy-in and dispel potential resistance by the way you construct your presentations?
Planning for Practicalities
As we all know, Sod s Law is alive and well, so how can you build a presentation that is flexible and works within whatever the prevailing constraints are whether time, attention spans or potential resistance?
Visuals
Storyboards
Using storyboards, we will consider how best they might exploit the strengths of PowerPoint as a visual medium.
Look Left, Look Right
Let s face it, most of us find over-wordy PowerPoint slides downright boring, at best unintelligible - at worst soporific. How are you going to connect with those stakeholders for whom words and text alone don t work?
Faced with so much text, many of us would rather read and digest complex messages at our leisure, not have it read out to us slower than we ve already done so for ourselves.
So what else can you do to present your content in ways which will fully engage? How might you invite others to interact with your subject? Whether to inspire, to inform, to persuade or to educate, what further creative options might connect with more right-brained sensitivities?
Support
The Continuum
Firstly, your key messages - how are you supporting them? Transferring ideas rarely happens in a hermetically sealed vacuum, so we will look at the continuum available to each participant. How will you most effectively convey complex information, transfer essential knowledge, persuade or inspire your audience?
How can you best support the visual medium of PowerPoint? Everyone will get time to consider their own presentations and what else they can do before, during and after their presentations to ensure that their stakeholders fully digest even the most complex content?
Conviction
Without it even the most polished PowerPoint presentations can sink without trace Where can each person find passion and emotion in their presentations? Where is the potential, within the narrative of their presentation, for building rapport and humour? Where are those WOW factors and items of interest they can exploit? Where are the surprises for their audience?
We will play with ways of leaving a chosen subliminal message or impression with their stakeholders.
What about the Audience?
What does it look, feel and sound like from their audience s perspective? Miscommunication, misunderstandings and misinterpretations are often a direct result of the fact that everyone sees the world differently. We will explore our different readings of a variety of PowerPoint slides, which will get participants to experience viscerally what they already know on an intellectual level.
Crucial to effective presentation, is considering what is in it for their audience. What are their issues, worries, concerns or likely questions? Can they be pre-empted, addressed directly during the presentation or else positively acknowledged as they arise?
Homework
Building, Redrafting, Refreshing and Polishing
It is expected that delegates will apply their learning from Day One to a PowerPoint presentation of their own.
We will ask them to reconsider their content and visuals -how they might support their message and their audience in the reconstruction of their presentation. Participants then get to practice its delivery on Day Two.
Now we will look at the strengths of the medium itself.
Day Two PowerPoint Presentation Training
We will check in with everyone to hear their reflections and thoughts from Day One and talk about any issues arising from their homework.
Icebreakers
We will start with a light-hearted icebreaker to get everyone warned up to the day ahead and then look at how icebreakers or energiser might work in the context of your next presentation.
Making it Easier on Yourself
Back to the issue of support, how will you support yourself to be as effective as you can be? We have some great ways to consider your presence as well as some do-able suggestions as to how to build on your existing strengths.
Preparing for Success
On a general level, it may be useful to have a checklist approach to planning for successful presentations. What should your checklists include?
Adding the polish
What else needs to happen? We will examine where each person has got to in their revamped PowerPoint presentations and explore dynamic ways to add the icing on the cake.
Having a Go
Each person will then have a go and get chance to have their key strengths acknowledged - as well as to consider any further options available to them. Constructive and personalised feedback will be shared so that everyone feels confident and equipped to work to their unique presenting style.
Sod's Law
There's usually one We will look at ways to handle difficult or resistant audiences and consider ways to handle the sod's law of presentation scenarios. We will have some fun nightmare handling and practice some of those tools, tips and techniques that we think can help.
Troubleshooting
According to your needs, we may also spend time looking at vibrant presentation openings and successful endings, as well as ways to deal with more complex material.
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.
*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
Day One
Day One - Basic Principles
Defining Death by PowerPoint
We'll look at the sorts of experiences participants have had as members of the audience or as 'inflictors'. This will be an opportunity to make explicit what makes for the best and worst PowerPoint Presentations.
PowerPoint as a Communication Tool
We will unpick what delegates already know about how communication works and how that applies specifically to PowerPoint communications.
Impact
What does it really mean? We'll look at how our IMPACT mnemonic relates to PowerPoint presentations and the use of powerful storylines.
Hands Up
Here we will ask delegates to put their hands up to those traps they fall into. How do they feel about presenting with PowerPoint? How much is expected of them? What do they want from the day?
Content
Where to start?
Firstly content. How to get off the starting blocks and then achieve logical flow and clarity in structuring your ideas? How to be sure that your key purpose is served by your presentation?
Using Signposts
The next step is to look at how best to support your audience on your presentation s narrative journey to focus your main message.
Achieving Focus in One Minute
Using sample PowerPoint presentations we will share our favourite way to focus and deliver a clear key message.
Fit for Purpose
As we maintain in all our work, one size fits all is not our style. Certainly, in terms of the diverse range of stakeholders faced by most of the delegates we work with, our participants need to know how to adapt their presentations to resonate with different audiences and to achieve different purposes. We explore ways to fine tune your presentation story threads.
Moving Beyond Bullet Points
How can you develop your ideas beyond the clear and logical, to borrow from more compelling stories and engaging structures? How can you promote buy-in and dispel potential resistance by the way you construct your presentations?
Planning for Practicalities
As we all know, Sod s Law is alive and well, so how can you build a presentation that is flexible and works within whatever the prevailing constraints are whether time, attention spans or potential resistance?
Visuals
Storyboards
Using storyboards, we will consider how best they might exploit the strengths of PowerPoint as a visual medium.
Look Left, Look Right
Let s face it, most of us find over-wordy PowerPoint slides downright boring, at best unintelligible - at worst soporific. How are you going to connect with those stakeholders for whom words and text alone don t work?
Faced with so much text, many of us would rather read and digest complex messages at our leisure, not have it read out to us slower than we ve already done so for ourselves.
So what else can you do to present your content in ways which will fully engage? How might you invite others to interact with your subject? Whether to inspire, to inform, to persuade or to educate, what further creative options might connect with more right-brained sensitivities?
Support
The Continuum
Firstly, your key messages - how are you supporting them? Transferring ideas rarely happens in a hermetically sealed vacuum, so we will look at the continuum available to each participant. How will you most effectively convey complex information, transfer essential knowledge, persuade or inspire your audience?
How can you best support the visual medium of PowerPoint? Everyone will get time to consider their own presentations and what else they can do before, during and after their presentations to ensure that their stakeholders fully digest even the most complex content?
Conviction
Without it even the most polished PowerPoint presentations can sink without trace Where can each person find passion and emotion in their presentations? Where is the potential, within the narrative of their presentation, for building rapport and humour? Where are those WOW factors and items of interest they can exploit? Where are the surprises for their audience?
We will play with ways of leaving a chosen subliminal message or impression with their stakeholders.
What about the Audience?
What does it look, feel and sound like from their audience s perspective? Miscommunication, misunderstandings and misinterpretations are often a direct result of the fact that everyone sees the world differently. We will explore our different readings of a variety of PowerPoint slides, which will get participants to experience viscerally what they already know on an intellectual level.
Crucial to effective presentation, is considering what is in it for their audience. What are their issues, worries, concerns or likely questions? Can they be pre-empted, addressed directly during the presentation or else positively acknowledged as they arise?
Homework
Building, Redrafting, Refreshing and Polishing
It is expected that delegates will apply their learning from Day One to a PowerPoint presentation of their own.
We will ask them to reconsider their content and visuals -how they might support their message and their audience in the reconstruction of their presentation. Participants then get to practice its delivery on Day Two.
Now we will look at the strengths of the medium itself.
Day Two PowerPoint Presentation Training
We will check in with everyone to hear their reflections and thoughts from Day One and talk about any issues arising from their homework.
Icebreakers
We will start with a light-hearted icebreaker to get everyone warned up to the day ahead and then look at how icebreakers or energiser might work in the context of your next presentation.
Making it Easier on Yourself
Back to the issue of support, how will you support yourself to be as effective as you can be? We have some great ways to consider your presence as well as some do-able suggestions as to how to build on your existing strengths.
Preparing for Success
On a general level, it may be useful to have a checklist approach to planning for successful presentations. What should your checklists include?
Adding the polish
What else needs to happen? We will examine where each person has got to in their revamped PowerPoint presentations and explore dynamic ways to add the icing on the cake.
Having a Go
Each person will then have a go and get chance to have their key strengths acknowledged - as well as to consider any further options available to them. Constructive and personalised feedback will be shared so that everyone feels confident and equipped to work to their unique presenting style.
Sod's Law
There's usually one We will look at ways to handle difficult or resistant audiences and consider ways to handle the sod's law of presentation scenarios. We will have some fun nightmare handling and practice some of those tools, tips and techniques that we think can help.
Troubleshooting
According to your needs, we may also spend time looking at vibrant presentation openings and successful endings, as well as ways to deal with more complex material.
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.
About The Training Provider: Impact Factory
Impact Factory - Impact Factory is based in London and offers dynamic people skills training. Our principal methods are drawn from theatre and psychotherapy and involve people in active learning. Delegates are on their feet learning experientially rather than sitting taking notes. The trainings offer options, choices, changes in perspective and attitude and the sort of "Aha" experience that allows...
