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Face to face / Online public schedule & onsite training. Restaurant lunch included at STL venues.
From £760 List price £965
- 2 days Instructor-led workshop
- Courses never cancelled
- Restaurant lunch
Syllabus
Who is this course for?
This 2 day workshop is aimed at professionals who are involved in some or all parts of any pre-sales process whether to internal or external stakeholders.
Benefits
Participating in this course will provide you with a robust and repeatable process for taking an idea from conception to delivery via presentation. You will learn with practical workshops, team exercises and a component of this course will utilise presentation applications like PowerPoint. The aim is to provide you with the confidence to realise an idea into a coherent story delivered in a compelling way.You may also wish to consider our presentation skills training London courses.
Course Syllabus
Day 1 - Storyboarding
Introductions
What is the point of your presentations?
Audience Analysis
Ideation & Storyboarding
Clustering and the Dramatic Arc
Developing a Throughline for your Storyboard
Tools and Techniques for Development of;
Beginning, Middle, End
Presentations - First Attempt with Peer Review
Sharpen Content from feedback
The role of non-verbal communication
Scripting & Practice techniques
Question time? How, Why and When
Presentations - Final with +-=
Day 2 - Creating a Slide Deck with PowerPoint
What does “Good” look like (“Bad” examples can be explored) Use Storyboard ideas to make a deck
Slide master and complex custom layouts (4:3 vs 16:9)
Working with content from different decks (Icons)
Working with images, transparency
Guidance on image selection & compression
Cropping and composition
Smart Art - Timelines and processes
Tables and Linked Tables
Impactful slides
Printing & Handout master
Action buttons for dynamic storyboards
Prices & Dates
What you get
"What do I get on the day?"
Arguably, the most experienced and highest motivated trainers.
Face-to-face training
Training is held in our modern, comfortable, air-conditioned suites.
Lunch, breaks and timing
A hot lunch is provided at local restaurants near our venues:
- Bloomsbury
- Limehouse
Courses start at 9:30am.
Please aim to be with us for 9:15am.
Browse the sample menus and view joining information (how to get to our venues).
Refreshments
Available throughout the day:
- Hot beverages
- Clean, filtered water
- Biscuits
Online training
Regular breaks throughout the day.
Learning tools
In-course handbook
Contains unit objectives, exercises and space to write notes
24 months access to trainers
Your questions answered on our support forum.
Training formats & Services
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Testimonials
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Lefteris Capatos,
Technical Service
Provide more time for the presentation preparation perhaps
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REGINALD UDEH,
Deputy Manager, Joint Venture Assets &Projects
The PowerPoint training was superb and met my needs.
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My suggestions and comments are as follows:
1. I have said so much from the beginning of the training; I saved the best for the last. One of the best things in this training is the training Support for 2years. Bravo! this is the first of its kind.
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3. Every other thing I have said in the last feedbacks apply to this one; You all rock! I love your professionalism, kindness and compassion, patience etc.
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From Storyboard to Presentation Deck
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Storyboard to Presentation Deck
Performing a Needs Analysis
A needs analysis measures what skills employees have -- and what they need. It indicates how to deliver the right training at the right time. The results answer the following questions:
- What is the audience with the problem or need for change?
- What tasks and subtasks does an expert perform to complete a work process?
- What gaps exist between experts, average and poor performers of a work process?
- How do we translate the needs into objectives to promote a strong learning outcome?
Methods of analysis
Audience?
- Interview key stakeholders and listen to their concerns about the problem
- Define who needs help to overcome the problem
- Identify and describe the audience and the work
Tasks?
- Observe the work being done by recognised experts
- Take careful notes and ask questions where needed
- Document the proper performance of the work tasks
Gaps?
- Observe other workers doing the tasks
- Compare results with the performance of experts
- Document identified skill gaps
Outcome?
- Develop a complete list of tasks for performing the work completely and correctly
Researching, Writing, and Editing
Researching
The needs analysis has likely produced much of the supporting content required to build the program. However, if information gaps exist, return to your expert performers (also termed subject matter experts) and ask questions.
Writing
If you’re using a word processor, create a template so your material is consistent from the beginning. Assign a preliminary time length to each module based on the total time available for the presentation. (You’ll validate it later.) When writing, aim for brevity. The more you say, the less the audience remembers.
Make sure to validate your finalised content before you move on to editing.
Editing
As you edit, write for the ear, not for the eyes. Make sure sentences are twenty words or less and only convey one thought. Use simple, familiar words. Make sure that you have provided the definitions of any terms important to the learning experience. Try to spice up your module titles.
Tips and Tricks
Use the following suggestions to enhance the benefit of your PowerPoint presentation.
Overall Appearance
- Display only one major concept on each slide
- Use short phrases or bullet points rather than paragraphs
- Limit each line of text to no more than 7-8 words
- Allow only 7-8 lines of text per slide
- Use images sparingly; one or two per slide
- Leave a good amount of blank space in your presentation
- Create a title for each slide
- Use effects, transitions animation and sound very sparingly.
Building Custom Presentations
Advanced Slide Master Techniques
Master slides hold all design and layout elements of a presentation. Master slides should be used when dealing with numerous slides in a publication. Using a master slide will give you layout and design consistency. You may add an extra set as an alternate choice for the presentation.
Master slides can be created, duplicated, converted, modified, and used for Web publications. In this lesson, we will focus on types of masters, and viewing slide, note and handout master ribbons.
Using the Slide Master Ribbon
Switch on by selecting View menu à Slide Master. The commands are centred on one ribbon to make editing easier:
Let’s go over the commands in each UNIT of the ribbon:
EditMaster
Use these commands to manage the master slides of your presentation. Delete, rename, add new layout elements and more with these commands.
MasterLayout
Customise the elements included in your master slide by adding new placeholders, as well as adding or removing title and footer placeholders.
EditTheme
Customise the look of the master slide with these commands, using themes, colours, fonts, and object affects you are already used to using.
Background
Add a background picture, texture, or gradient with the Background Styles command. You can also hide the background image which allows you to focus on managing the content of the master.
Using the Notes Master Ribbon
The Notes Master ribbon contains commands that will assist you in creating and editing Notes Masters. Click View à Notes Master to see this ribbon:
PageSetup Change the margins and page orientation of either the Notes master sheet or the Slide master sheet.
Placeholders Add or remove content from the Notes page.
EditTheme Notes pages are designed to be passed out like a handout sheet or for your own use while presenting. You can also add the company logo or change its theme.
Background Modify background.
Using the Handout Master Ribbon
The Handout Master ribbon will assist you in creating and editing a Handout Master. The Handout Master ribbon is accessed by clicking View à Handout Master:
PageSetup Change the margins, page orientation, number of slides (max of 9) to appear on the handout page.
Placeholders Add or remove content from the Handouts page.
Edit Theme You can keep a plain style for handout or edit themes to include a company logo or some colour to the page and make the handouts usable for a formal occasion.
Background Modify background of the Notes page with these commands.
Using Animation Effects
Animation is a great way to focus on important points, to control the flow of information, and to increase viewer interest in your presentation. You can apply animation effects to text or objects on individual slides, to text and objects on the slide master, or to placeholders on custom slide layouts.
There are four different kinds of animation effects in PowerPoint:
Entrance effects. For example, you can make an object fade gradually into focus, fly onto the slide from an edge, or bounce into view.
Exit effects. These effects include making an object fly off of the slide, disappear from view, or spiral off of the slide.
Emphasis effects. Examples of these effects include making an object shrink or grow in size, change colour, or spin on its centre.
Motion Paths You can use these effects to make an object move up or down, left or right, or in a star or circular pattern (among other effects).
You can use any animation by itself or combine multiple effects together. For instance, you can make a line of text fly in from the left while it grows in size by applying a Fly In entrance effect and a Grow/Shrink emphasis effect to it.
Add animation to an object
To add an animation effect to an object, do the following:
Select the object that you want to animate.
On the Animations tab, in the Animation group, click the ‘More’ button, and then select the animation effect that you want.
Notes
If you do not see the entrance, exit, emphasis, or motion path animation effect that you want, click More Entrance Effects, More Emphasis Effects, More Exit Effects, or More Motion Paths.
After you have applied an animation to an object or text, the animated items are labelled on the slide with a non-printing numbered tag, displayed near the text or object. The tag appears only in Normal view when the Animations tab is selected or the Animation task pane is visible.
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