Why and for whom?
Would you be more effective in your role if you could present better?
Wished you knew how to use PowerPoint to create more professional slides?
What if there were a course that could equip you with the skills to do both?
At Cempaka Technologies, we deliver a two-day workshop that equips you with both the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of presentations. With these skills, you will be able to confidently prepare and deliver dynamic presentations that engage and captivate your audience.
You will learn how to impress your audience using features such as animations, customised templates and designs, appealing graphics and dynamic graphs that PowerPoint readily offers.
Our experienced facilitators will also offer tips and tricks on how to deliver your presentations effectively in a variety of settings such as providing information, teaching a skill, reporting progress and selling a product or service. To ensure that you get hands-on experience and immediate feedback, you will be utilising the techniques you have learnt during the workshop itself.
Learning Objectives:
By participating in this course, the following learning objectives will be covered:
• Acquire techniques and tools to create PowerPoint templates professionally.
• Apply different approaches in presenting your ideas, reports, and information with appealing graphics.
• Design interesting and appropriate info graphics.
• Improve existing knowledge of the different dynamic features in PowerPoint and apply in various settings.
• Acquire tips on how to engage your audience.
• Identify causes of nervousness and anxiety, and apply skills to overcome them.
• Apply techniques to handle questions during presentation.
• Plan, prepare and delivery a short presentation.
• Evaluate a presentation using learnt criteria.
This training is for personnel who want to improve their presentation and PowerPoint skills. This training it will benefit directors, managers, department heads, team leaders, supervisors and senior executives that who deliver presentations to internal and external audiences.
What will you learn?
From this workshop, you will learn how to create effective business presentations with PowerPoint in the following areas: layout and design, templates and slide masters, visualisation, charts, image manipulation, interactivity, multimedia, and animation. You will also learn how to stay calm, deliver in an engaging manner and handle questions from your audiences during a presentation.
HOW TO CUSTOMISE THE POWERPOINT SLIDES
~ Customising the Design and Styles for Different Purposes
~ Creating Your Corporate's Templates
~ Customing Your Template
- Where to Get Inspiration for Template Design
- Applying a Design and Theme
~ Customising the Colours of Your Theme
- Creating a New Theme Color
~ Creating a New Theme
~ Managing the Slide Master
~ Customising the Slide Layout
- Creating New Custom Layout
- Using the New Custom Layout
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HOW TO MAKE YOUR PRESENTATION MORE DYNAMIC
~ Inserting Text and Graphics
- Inserting Text and Quotes
- Displaying Text with Background Image
- Increasing Text Contrast with Shape Graphics
- Presenting Text with Creative Bullet Points
- Replace Text by Timeline Diagram Shapes
- Presenting Data with Infographics Shapes and Diagrams
~ Creating Interesting Layout for Tables
- Table Design Inspirations
- Replacing Grid of a Standard Presentation Table
- Making Table Headers More Visual
- Illustrating Table with Icons
- Highlighting the Key Table Cell Content
~ Creating Charts for Visual Presentation
- Comparing Several KPI Values by Single Value Pie Charts
- Enhancing Chart with Illustrated Data Legend
- Bar Charts for Presenting and Comparing Data
- Column Charts to Compare Several Items over Time
- Presenting Data on Geographical Maps
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HOW TO USE MULTIMEDIA TO ENHANCE YOUR PRESENTATION
~ Working with Sound and Movie Effects
- Working with Sound Effects
- Working with Movie Effects
~ Adding Transitions to the Slides
- Hiding a Slide
- Showing a Hidden Slide
- Running the Slide Show
- About Setting and Rehearsing Slide Show Timings
~ Applying Animations
- Categories of Animation Effects
- Applying Animation Effects
- Customizing Animation Effects
- Animating the Elements of a Chart
- Animating a SmartArt Graphic
- Making an Animation Starts after Trigger by another Object
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HOW TO SPECIFICALLY SET THE POWERPOINT SLIDES FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES
~ Customising the Slides for Navigation
- Creating a Custom Show
- Adding or Removing Slides in a Custom Show
- Going to a Custom Show during a Slide Show
~ Creating the Interactive Elements in the Slides
- Setting up Hyperlinks to the Custom Show
- Setting Up Hyperlinks in a Presentation
- Adding an Action Button
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HOW TO NAVIGATE THE POWERPOINT SLIDES USING ADVANCED METHODS
~ Navigating the Slide Show
~ Using Keyboard Shortcuts to Navigate the Slide Show
~ Using Pointer
- Using Pen Pointer
- Hiding Pointer during a Slide Show
- Hiding the Slide Content during a Slide Show
~ Using Multiple Monitor for Presentation
- Setting Up a Slide Show to Run in a Continuous Loop
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INTRODUCTION AND GROUP DISCUSSION
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COMMUNICATION
~ Types of Noise ~ Objective of Communication
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UNDERSTANDING ONE’S OWN COMMUNICATION STYLE
~ Setting Up the Main Document ~ Connecting a Document to a Data Source ~ Refining the List of Recipients ~ Adding Mail Merge Fields to the Main Document ~ Previewing the Merge ~ Completing the Merge and Printing the Documents
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IMPACTFUL PRESENTATIONS
~ Purpose of Presentation
~ Overcoming Nerves and Anxiety
- The #1 Fear
- Causes of Anxiety
- Overcoming Anxiety
~ Four Key Steps to Presentations
- Planning
- Structure
- Creating Effective Visuals
~ Presentation Styles
- Common Problems & Solutions
- Expression
- Building Rapport
- Opening with Impact
- During the Presentation
- Conclusions
~ Handling Questions
- Steps on handling questions
- Handling Difficult questions
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PRACTICE
~ Peer Coaching Guidelines
~ Preparation of speech
~ Presentation of speech & feedback
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Exercises
Several Exercises will be given during the workshop.
What will you receive?
For every enrolment, the participant will receive a training manual
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