CREATING POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS THAT GET YOUR POINT ACROSS

Goal: Save days of time by learning how to create a well-organized presentation with high-impact slides that focus on your key messages.

Seminar Focus: Claudyne Wilder takes you from identifying a presentation’s objective to creating slides focusing on that objective. Everyone brings a presentation that is evaluated against key guidelines. Each participant reorganizes a presentation, evaluates the slides, and has an opportunity to show three redone slides.

Time: One-day workshop given in companies
Number of people: 15 maximum

What You’ll Take Away From This Seminar

• Days of your time back: You receive all 26 professionally designed formats in Presentations in a Hurry: 26 Formats That Persuade. By using these formats to structure your presentations, you’ll save many hours of organization time.
  
• Professional-looking slides: Use Visual Checklists to improve the look of your slides.
  
• Sentence slides converted to images: Over 200 before-and-after slides in the CD-ROM Slides That Win: Your Roadmap to Success show you how to turn boring sentence slides into attention-grabbing images.
  
• Strategies for keeping audiences interested: See ways to change the pace of a presentation using images, graphics, and appropriate animations. Learn what features of PowerPoint not to use.
  
• Redesigned slides with appropriate, focused content: Redo three slides following the suggested conventions and standards.
  
• Presentations that are successful and easy to deliver: Learn how certain slides are easier for you to present and your audience to assimilate and act upon.

What This Seminar Is Not: This is not a class in how to use PowerPoint. You will, however, learn features that will save you time putting together a presentation.

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Materials You Receive:

• Participant workbook: Over 50 pages of before-and-after examples, checklists, ideas for streamlining slides, and PowerPoint hints.
  
• Book: Point, Click & Wow! A Quick Guide to Brilliant Laptop Presentations, including a full-color CD of all the visuals in the book.
  
• CD: Slides That Win: Your Roadmap to Success, with over 200 before-and-after slide examples plus proven designs you can copy and use.
  
• CD: Presentations in a Hurry: 26 Formats That Persuade: 26 presentation topic “shells” that guide you in organizing your content for any talk, from progress reports to proposals. Each shell includes a template design that's carefully chosen for the topic, plus custom graphics and appropriate imagery.

By the End of This Seminar, You Will Know How to:

• Organize your content to meet your presentation’s objective and story line.
  
• Use a format from Presentations in a Hurry that best meets your presentation’s objective.
  
• Identify how to change the pace of a talk using slides.
  
• Create concise, focused slides with a message.
  
• Use specific PowerPoint features to make your points.
  
• Copy and use the designs from the CD Slides That Win: Your Roadmap to Success.

Most important, you will no longer give boring PowerPoint presentations. You will know how to create effective slides that help you give a persuasive, informative talk.

Customized Format for Your Company
Wilder Presentations can customize formats with your company template and colors. These can be used during and after the seminar.