Master PowerPoint: Advanced Tricks for Professional Presentations

Date	Nov 15, 2017
Time	01:00 PM EDT
Cost	$200.00
Online

Engaging your audience when your presentation content is largely technical in nature is a challenge. Often, the point of delivering the presentation is to gain buy-in, support, or cooperation from attendees. When your content may not be as scintillating to your audience, as it is to you, going the extra mile to make it dynamic and interactive can mean the difference between getting that buy-in, or not. In this session, you will learn how to leverage the features of PowerPoint to create visuals and handout material that do more than just convey your content. You will also learn tools and techniques to draw attention to key items, how to apply animation to engage, not merely entertain, your attendees, how to organize your content quickly and fast-track your presentation media.

Objectives of the Presentation

• Fast-tracking your presentation with outlines
• How much text goes on a slide, where, and why
• Leveraging Smart Art, picture graphics and shapes
• What works in the live venue vs. in online delivery
• Techniques that allow you and your audience to interact with your content
• How to tastefully and effectively apply animation and transitions to deliver your message
• How to use sections to make your presentation slides reusable and multi-purpose
• Tips for creating handouts that are a value-add

Why Should you Attend
If you deliver presentations or training material which may be dry or very technical in nature, learning to leverage a tool like PowerPoint can help you meet your objectives: audience engagement, education, support, and buy-in.

Areas Covered

• Getting content into PowerPoint efficiently and effectively
• Formatting content to appeal to your audience in various presentation platforms
• Applying transition and animation tools
• Producing handouts
• Using PowerPoint features such as custom show and Sections
• Delivering a quality presentation that puts the spotlight on the speaker and the content, not just the slides

*NOTE: The course will be delivered using PowerPoint 2013, but will be applicable to all versions of PowerPoint from 2007 forward, and in part other presentation content applications.

Who will Benefit

• Engineers
• Accounting and finance professionals
• Compliance professionals
• Managers
• Directors
• Medical professionals
• Computer technology professionals

Instructor Profile:
Melissa Esquibel specializes empowering office software users to get the software to work for them, rather than the other way around. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and Microsoft Office Specialist Master (MOSM) with more than 25 years in business application technology, Melissa has a unique ability to make learning programs enjoyable and valuable. Her consulting career spans banking, engineering, construction, government, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy and insurance, which allows her to provide real-world examples and applications. She has enabled everyone from rocket scientists to real estate brokers to put the "productive" back in office productivity software. Her practice also includes business continuity planning, SharePoint governance, and information security policies. Melissa graduated summa cum laude from Strayer University with a Bachelor of Business Administration, majoring in Legal Studies.