01 day – Designing Impactful Executive Presentation using PowerPoint

Course Overview

To equip users with the skills to create effective and attractive presentation slides using Microsoft PowerPoint.

Skills Acquired

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
  • Understand audience mindset and the impact of slide design
  • Apply fundamental design principles using guidelines, fonts, and colours
  • Redesign slides using effective guidelines
  • Use fonts effectively in slide design
  • Apply colour theory to enhance slide design
  • Create and use pictograms and silhouettes for visual impact
  • Employ the "Zoom" and "Transparency" animation effects to simplify complex charts and tables
  • Use the "On Click" effect to present bullet points more effectively
  • Design effective charts using the "3 Big Questions" technique
  • Identify and correct common design mistakes in slides
  • Utilise websites with legitimate free resources
  • Apply techniques learned to redesign a deck of poorly designed slides
  • Participate in presentation critiques to refine slide design ski

Learning Modules

Mindset of the audience
  • Show the top annoyance of the audience base on a survey
  • Explain the problem with today’s approach towards designing slides
  • Explain the fallacy of solely using the left side of the brain during design
  • Show examples of slides designed with the left side of the brain
  • Explain the advantages of using the right side of the brain during design
  • Show examples of slides designed with the right side of the brain
Fundamentals of Design, Part 1, Guidelines
  • Explain how the usage of guidelines affect design
  • Show examples of slides using guidelines effectively
Designing Slides with Guidelines
  • Participants to redesign a slide using guidelines effectively
Fundamentals of Design, Part 2, Fonts
  • Explain how the usage of fonts affect design
  • Show examples of slides using fonts effectively
Designing Slides with Fonts
  • Participants to redesign a slide using fonts effectively
Fundamentals of Design, Part 3, Colours
  • Explain the theory of colours
  • Explain how the usage of colours affect design
  • Show examples of slides using colours effectively
Designing Slides with Colours
  • Participants to redesign a slide using colours effectively
Designing Graphics, Part 1, Pictograms
  • Explain how the usage of pictograms affect design
  • Show examples of slides using pictograms effectively
  • Demonstrate how pictograms can becreated through the usage of different shapes
Designing Slides with Pictograms
  • Participants to create various pictograms through the usage of different shapes
Designing Graphics, Part 2, Silhouettes
  • Explain how the usage of silhouettes affect design
  • Show examples of slides using silhouettes effectively
  • Demonstrate how silhouettes can be created through the usage of the “Freeform” tool
Designing Slides with Silhouettes
  • Participants to create various silhouettes through the usage of the “Freeform” tool
Injecting Animation, Part 1, “Zoom” and “Transparency” Effect
  • Show examples of badly designed slides with complex tables and charts
  • Demonstrate how complex charts and tables can be better designed by using the “Zoom” and “Transparency” effect
Designing Slides through injecting “Zoom” and “Transparency” effect
  • Participants to employ the “Zoom” and “Transparency” effect when redesigning a slide with complex table and diagrams
Injecting Animation, Part 2, “On Click” Effect
  • Show examples of slides where more than 5 bullets points are shown all at once
  • Demonstrate through the “On Click” effect, bullet points in the slides can bepresented more effectively
Designing Slides through injecting the “On Click” effect
  • Participants to employ the “On Click” effect when redesigning a slide with more than 5 bullets points which are shown all at once
Designing Effective Charts, “3 Big Questions” Technique
  • Show examples of charts with overwhelming and unnecessary amount of data and elements
  • Show examples of charts that are effectively designed
  • Explain to participants about applying the “3 Big Questions” technique when designing their charts
Designing Effective Charts through applying the “3 Big Questions” Technique
  • Participants to employ the “3 Big Questions” Technique when redesigning a slide with overwhelming and unnecessary amount of data and elements
Websites with Freebies
  • Show 3 photos that are legitimate
  • Participants will be given a deck of slides which are badly designed
  • Participants to apply the techniques learned throughout the day and redesign a deck of slides
  • Presentation
Critique
  • Trainer and participants to critique slides redesigned by participants
  • Conclusion and Wrap-up"

Who is this course for

This course is suitable for participants who need to plan, create and deliver presentations at their workplace.

Academic prerequisites

Course Fees

Fees Company / Self Sponsored
Full Fee $320
GST $28.80
Nett Fee Payable (incl. GST) $348.80
01 day – Designing Impactful Executive Presentation using PowerPoint
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Course Duration

8 HRS

Training Time

9am-6pm

Mode of Training

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