The way your slides look and the way they present your message is often forgotten in the flurry of activity around getting content into slides and preparing what to say. But visuals are important. The tone and impact of what you say has to be matched by your slides. Otherwise you can dilute your message or even run the risk of confusing people or distracting from what you want to get across.

Discover the techniques of preparing slides that are visually aligned to the goal of your presentation. Using the exclusive ‘Represent’ communication system you will understand what to include on your slides, where to put it and even whether to use a slide at all!

Objective

By the end of the training session, you will:

• understand the principles of slide design
• know how to select images that support your message
• be able to choose animation to create clarity and understanding
• have a successful approach for using your company template
• know how to make data slides interesting
• have some handy PowerPoint tips

Outline

The programme will be a mixture of facilitator presentation, hands-on activities, discussion and case study. All the way through you will be applying new techniques to your own work.

Participants should bring a laptop and some of their own slides that they can work on.

Setting the scene

• Case study - great visuals and great presenters
• What makes a great slide?
• Presentation tools - what are my options?
• The Right Angle ‘Represent’ Communication System

Visuals 101

• Colours, fonts and text
• Templates, logos and corporate musts
• When animation hurts, and when it helps
• Hello, Goodbye - your crucial opening and closing slides

What about graphics?

• A picture is worth a thousand words
• Great or gruesome graphics
• Your slide is a canvas - thinking like a designer

Data-driven presentations

• Charts and graphs - how to make them interesting
• Data tables - how to give them impact
• Complex information - how to make things clear

Putting it all together

• Slide solutions - team analysis of slides
• Personal slide development

Who should attend

Is this course for me?

If you ever make presentation slides? Yes!

Methodology

No boring lectures. Andy delivers enjoyable, interactive and thought-provoking training by providing activities that participants work on together and discuss. They can be productive tasks, or fun games, but they are always relevant.

Time to have a go. The training environment he creates is a space where people have the freedom to try things out in safety, and to practise and improve what they do. Andy offers these practice opportunities to give people the confidence to head back into the workplace with tried and tested tools.

Testimonial

Your slides on how pictures should be displayed on the slides were fantastic. They do have an effect and I have not really thought in that way before.
Keith Lim, SMRT

The workshop was very interactive and had lots of examples to work on.
Yuliana Hendarto, Ploh Group Pte Ltd

I have been a trainer for 11 years and I have attended various presentation skills workshops. I am very confident in saying that this workshop is the best among all. It combines theoretical knowledge, a practical approach and skills practice all together. It will surely make each and every participant come out a better presenter. Thank you Andy for the magnificent experience of learning and fun!
Edgardo C. Vincente - Workforce and Organization Development Specialist, Micron Semiconductor Asia

I can definitely use the learning points at work. Excellent trainer!
Ascendas Land (Singapore) Pte Ltd

These are great info & wonderful to learn new tools. The exercises are very useful & relevant to my work. Mr Andy is very engaging & interactive. The info shared are bite-size and easy to digest. Wish I had attended this course earlier.
National Youth Council Singapore

Speaker Profile

Andy has worked in learning and development in Singapore and the region for over nineteen years. he ran the British Council’s Professional Development Centre for several years and spent two years as a Deputy Director working for the Singapore Government’s Institute for Adult Learning. Andy has trained hundreds of people in a range of topics over the years and has developed a very clear understanding of what people and organisations need to make their learning successful.

On the subject of presentation skills, in the last few years he has worked with organisations such as SSMC, Sumitomo Corporation, Duke NUS, IDC, Intel, Micron Semiconductor, SMRT, SSIA, Coutts, SocGen, Chevron and has done presentation design consultancy for SEMCO, ANREV, IDC, and futurethink.

Andy has a degree in Electronics from the University of Keele in the UK, a post-graduate certificate and diploma in adult learning, and a number of practitioner qualifications in learning tools for team and leadership development. He is a professional grade member of the Adult Educators’ Network, Singapore.

Andy has delivered presentations at a number of HR conferences, and in 2010 shared his ideas on creativity in photography (his pastime) at a TEDx Singapore event.