The way your slides look is often forgotten when you try loading a lot of technical content into the slides and preparing what to say. But visuals are very important. Your message needs to be complemented and matched by the contents of the slides. Particularly for technical and financial presentations, you may not get your message across if you use the wrong graphs. Presenting technical information can certainly be challenging!

This course is for anyone who needs to present technical and financial data in an informative and interesting manner to audiences with varying degree of technical knowledge or to non technical audiences. Discover the techniques to design effective technical presentation slides that are aligned to the goal of your presentation.

Objective

At the end of the workshop, the learner will be able to

1. Design slides that present technical and financial information such as spreadsheets in an interesting and informative manner
   
   
2. Select the right charts for the presentation
   
   
3. Source, twit and utilise graphics to create professional looking slides
   
   
4. Use simple animation to enhance understanding and capture attention of the audience
   
   
5. Manage flow of presentation through effective use of slides

Outline

Who should attend

This workshop is intended for technical staff who need to design presentation slides for technical and non technical audience.

Methodology

Agnes Lim's Profile

Armed with a BSC (Hons) from the National University of Singapore, a MBA from the University of Hull and an Advanced Certificate for Training and Assessment (ACTA) by Institute of Adult learning (IAL), Agnes Lim has more than 30 years of corporate experience in the biomedical industry of which 20 years were in middle and senior management.

Adept at people management, she has more than 20 years experience in hiring, managing, training and developing staff and more than 10 years experience in succession planning at the site leadership level. She is able to connect with people across different levels in the organisation having worked up the levels in her career. She has conducted more than 300 interviews ranging from junior management staff to site leadership team members to scholarship aspirants at her previous companies.

Being in a technical department, Agnes is equally well versed in technical report writing and technical presentation, having created and reviewed many thousands of technical reports and presentations throughout her career.

Agnes has developed and conducted numerous trainings and coached learners on both technical and soft skills. Examples of trainings that she has conducted include, How Managers and supervisors can Develop Career of their Staff, Hire Right, Managing your Career Development for Success, Technical Writing Skills, Technical Presentation skills, Auditing Skills, Investigations Skills, Data Integrity, Quality Risk Assessments amongst others.

A comfortable and confident speaker, she was invited to speak at BioBiz at NUS previously to help the students have a better understanding of the career opportunities in the biomedical / pharmaceutical industry. She has also shared her educational choices with students at Raffles Girls School (Secondary), her alma mater.

Agnes is passionate about developing and cultivating talents within the organisation. She believes that a keen focus on talent development differentiates organisations and is a competitive advantage.

With a passion for youth and education, she currently volunteers with ACTS Singapore.