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again for a very informative two days… I am really grateful to
come away from a seminar with some real, usable knowledge, not
just two days out of work!"
Forget overheads and slides; if you want your audience to stay
awake for your message, take note: the bar has been permanently
raised with the new technologies in computer-based presentation design.
Unfortunately, good software alone
does not make for good presentation design.
In fact, quite the opposite! There are strict rules to designingpresentations
you must follow, and innumerable pitfalls
that will sap the strength of even superb speakers, ruining an
otherwise well-delivered show.
And while
many business people have taken courses in public speaking or
presentation skills, presentation skills training alone will not
get your message across to your audience if your presentations
look like most business presentations today - overworked and
under-designed.
As computer-based presentation design
has
become more the norm, audiences are being
overwhelmed with productions that seem to use every feature and
font that the presenter can find. You may think your
presentation is great and the audience is with you as they politely nod their heads and smile,
but beware: the emperor believed that only a "fool"
couldn't see his beautiful new clothes!
Few
corporate audience members are willing to stand up and declare
that they can't see anything they understand in your
presentation. But if you couldn't follow the last slide
show you sat through, much less stay awake, ask yourself if your own
presentation designs probably couldn't use a little help, too.
In this course, you will learn a
"paint-by-numbers" approach to proper presentation design, and save
your next audience from the new corporate syndrome, "Death
by PowerPoint".
The
curriculum for this course is based on Doug
Jefferys'
Presentation design bible, "...And Your Point Is? - How to Stop Killing your
Clients with PowerPoint Poisoning". But the
material for the class comes from you - your presentations,
which we review, deconstruct and then revise to conform to the rules of
proper presentation design that you will learn in the workshop.
So you go home with not only a
thorough understanding of the fundamentals of presentation design, but also a
professionally designed "template" from which
to build your future, successful presentations.
You will learn in one day what
pioneering presentation designexperts have discovered over a decade.
You will learn to design slides that keep the presenter and the audience
on the same page every step of the way. You don't need
to be a graphic artist to create dazzling on-screen results.
Just tackle the tips and techniques you'll take home from here,
and be the hero of your next show!
As vital to one's career as good presentation skills might be,
many who struggle with
"Before"
"AFTER"
speaking before a group are simply trying to deliver the "wrong"
presentation!
In just one day, learn what you need to do to build presentations that not only make your point, but are also a breeze to deliver.
You
will learn the following skills from this course:
v
The Proper Delivery of Visual Information.
v
Recognizing the 3 most common presentation design faux pas.
v
Understanding
exactly how the brain processes visual input.
v
Analyzing
your visuals: Your perspective vs. the audience's.
v
Design
by Numbers - You needn't be a graphic artist to
artistically graph your point.
v
Going
beyond default settings.
v
Making
information flow.
v
Simplifying
-- How Less is More.
v
Controlling
audience attention through layout and timing.
v
10
techniques to guarantee you and your audience are in
sync.
"AFTER"
