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Banish Bullets! - Raise your PowerPoint presentations from the dead
Who is it for?
This half-day presentation skills course is for you if you present using PowerPoint and have realised:
- your audience aren't just nodding - they're nodding off
- you're not the source of information - the slides are
- you're not a presenter - you're a projectionist
- if the PowerPoint technology fails - so will you
- every slide looks the same - so you can't easily see what's important and what's not
- there's no energy from you or your audience.
Enough said? PowerPoint is a powerful tool but like any tool, it can be misused. Most presenters have no idea how effective their presentations could be if they started to explore some of the creative aspects of PowerPoint software. The biggest enemy to this adventure is the bullet-point - hence the course title - Banish Bullets.
If you're new to presenting - great. Hopefully you haven't absorbed the bad habits of PowerPointlessness and are willing to try some creative, memorable and effective ways of getting your message across.
If you're an experienced presenter the idea of banishing bullets will probably shock you - but don't let it scare you away from this course. You're presentations will be transformed if you follow the advice and use the ideas in this course.
After this course you will have a renewed energy for presenting and your audiences will turn up to your presentations rather than saying "Just send me the slides."
“ Before this course my PowerPoint slides were my notes and my audience were bored. Now both me and the audience are energised by the visual elements which are both creative and effective ”
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Numbers Dates and Location
This course is run in Wellington and takes place
from 9 am to 12
noon.
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Please contact us (using form below) for future dates.
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The Big Problem
PowerPoint can be used to create:
- slides that the audience looks at during the presentation
- notes to cue the presenter
- handouts for after the presentation.
The big problem is most presenters don't realise that these are three separate and quite different applications. Most presenters try and make one PowerPoint show do all three jobs. The result is usually a failure to:
- engage, inform or persuade the audience
- provide visuals that clarify or improve retention
- give a meaningful document to refer to afterwards.
What will you learn?
There's more to learn about PowerPoint than selecting the right sized fonts and colours. We'll teach you how to design great slides and then how to deliver using those slides.
Find out:
- the three reasons why you must avoid bullet-based slides
- how text (bullet-points) interferes with your words
- when to use a slide and when not
- how to create slides that clarify rather than confuse
- about video, graphics and PowerPoint's picture controls
- using graphic animation to reinforce your point
- common technical disasters and how to avoid them
- that notes are not slides are not handouts
- when and how to turn the slideshow off
- secret keyboard techniques to enhance your presentation
- how to use PowerPoint as a secret autocue
- free web resources that will enhance your PowerPoint shows
- the power of combining images and animation
- how the right slides can make you and your talk engaging and memorable
- where and how to access powerful images and graphics.
“Learnt some very good tips for using (and not using) PowerPoint. Will completely alter the way I plan and deliver presentations in the future.”
- Tony Wharton, Senior Analyst, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
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Delivering with PowerPoint
PowerPoint can be an energy-sucker. It sucks energy from both you the presenter and your audience.
You'll discover:
- How to create suspense with your slides
- How to run the show - not have the show run you
- The major timing faults that annoy audiences
- How to "dance" with PowerPoint and not step on each others toes!
Learn by doing
Bring your wireless-networking enabled laptop and you'll be able to try out the ideas and resources you learn on this course. We recommend PowerPoint 2003 (but are familiar with earlier versions). Please note - this is not a technical course - rather, it's how to use the technology to make your presentations more memorable, understandable and enjoyable. Need to know more...? Call or email us. Comprehensive Workbook
You'll receive a copy of our Workbook “How to design and deliver a presentation with PowerPoint ”. The workbook is used during the course and is also a valuable reference tool for the future.
And after the course you get...
Advice whenever you need it
Having attended one of our courses, you can ring or e-mail us at any time afterwards for presentation-related advice, whether it's ideas for a new presentation you''re developing, a review of PowerPoint slides or a confidence boost. This is an ongoing free service.
Presentation Tips Newsletter
Quarterly presentation tips and ideas based on our latest research and discoveries to keep you up-to-date.
Further training opportunities
We run regular Presentation Coaching Clinics for previous course participants. The Clinics provide speaking opportunities, coaching and other presentation-related exercises and activities. You can use the Clinics to refresh, practice and fine-tune the skills you learn when working with us. The Coaching Clinics take place quarterly
in central Wellington. The Presentation Coaching Clinic is for Effective Speaking clients only and is not a public course. After attending "Banish Bullets" you can attend as often as you wish at no cost.
“As a direct result of your workshops my team have a new found confidence and their recent presentations have been more professionally structured. The workshops were practical, enjoyable and effective.”
- Gordon Shaw, past Head of Debt Management, ACC |
“ I have just received the audience evaluation of my final Wellington presentation. 84% of the responses were excellent or good for content with 95% for presentation being excellent or good.”
- Maggie Jakob-Hoff, Director, Evaluation Associates |
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