Create Impactful Powerpoint Presentations that Captivate & WoW Your Audience
Course Information
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Overview
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Learning Outcomes
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Who Should Attend
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Testimonials
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Trainer's Profile
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Course Outline
Have you ever wondered how to effectively engage your audience and spur them to action after a presentation?
There are two essential components to every successful presentation – a charismatic, knowledgeable speaker and an intuitively comprehensive and visually engaging presentation. Most professionals today have the former covered – however, most presentations today are cluttered, messy and lack a fluid flow. This leaves audiences disengaged after the first few slides and without a clear course of action after the presentation.
Effectively designed presentations (known as decks) on the other hand, keep your audience engaged from start to finish and more importantly, comprehend the information you communicate with them. This holds true for all presentations – regardless of whether you are conducting a pitch to investors, selling a product or service to prospective customers, or communicating insights and findings with company directors.
So – How do you turn a stack of messy slides into a professionally crafted and engaging deck?
Through our hands on and content-packed 2-days workshop, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to design impactful PowerPoint slides, empowering you to ace those important presentations and achieve the success you want.
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Comprehensive and completely up to date, this 2-day masterclass will provide you with all the tips and pointers that you need to turn your ideas into captivating Presentation Design and Delivery
Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Content creation mistakes which everyone is guilty of, and their impact on audience engagement
- Understanding the 5 Toolboxes of professional content designers
- PowerPoint functions and tools for creating stunning and unique decks efficiently
- Key considerations prior to designing content for your presentation
- How to structure and create unique slide layouts by using framing
- How to exploit Slide Master to create unique themed decks
- Design techniques for creating cohesive and professional-looking content within slides
- Creative alternatives to presenting content to captivate audiences
- Best practices for simplifying and presenting text content as a professional designer
- Strategies to visualize data in an engaging and intuitive manner
- How to select and tastefully implement media resources (images, graphics, videos) like a professional designer
- Sources for media assets that can be used in your presentation
- How to effectively utilize Animations and Transitions to create immersive presentations
Note: Learners are required to bring their own laptop equipped with MS PowerPoint version 2010 or above
This workshop is highly suitable for executives and managers whom needs to Present, Pitch, Influence, Story tell, Persuade, Engage, Motivate, Lead, Inspire and Connect with their audience and clients.
- Business development, Sales and marketing executives
- Professional trainers, teachers, consultants and coaches
- Managers or supervisors, HOD
- CEO and business owners
- Professionals from accounting, legal, compliance, IT and Support staff
“Ezekiel is exceptionally knowledgeable on PowerPoint and is able to explain the tips well! Thank you!!! The course enables one to be more sensitive to the nuances to what makes a great deck. Useful to me at work in creating PowerPoint slides.” – Mara Lim, Training Facilitator, Elections Department
“Ezekiel provided a lot of practical and relevant tips, very applicable to the actual work context. Enjoyed his course tremendously. I’d consider my Powerpoint skills to be pretty proficient, but this course still surprises me. It is among one of the best Microsoft Office courses I have ever attended, highly recommended.” – Esther Lim, Assistant Director, Health Promotion Board
“Ezekiel is very knowledgeable on tips and tricks for ppt, and very patient in guiding us along and providing guidance. He also made it a point to check in with participants frequently, which assured me of the progress of my learning.” – Gwendolyn Wong, Assistant Director, Ministry of Home Affairs
“Ezekiel is highly proficient in the art of weaving design, storytelling and brand vision into visually compelling and emotionally engaging decks. He recently conducted a workshop and consultation session for our Accelerator Program where he shared his framework for creating effective presentations with the Startups in the program and met with them individually to provide greater insights for their decks. With his guidance, the Startups were able to elevate the design, story and brand vision of their decks and are now better prepared to take on future pitching sessions with their improved decks.” – Robbert Groenen, Director, One to Watch Myanmar
“Ezekiel conducted a presentation design workshop for us on 28th June 2019. During the workshop, Ezekiel provided insights on how we can improve our future decks. By using one of our previous decks for case studies, we were able to gain several actionable tips, such as How to attract and engage audiences from the start of the presentation, How to better structure the timeline for our decks, and How to use layouts to make content intuitively comprehensive for audiences. The management team which attended the seminar was very impressed with how structured the program was and being able to be applied immediately to any type of presentation. Ezekiel has created a truly masterful program. The WFA team would like to thank Ezekiel for the insights and will continue to send the middle management for this masterclass in the near future.”- Edmund Lim, Director, Wong Fong Academy
Personal Coaching by Industry Specialist: Mr Ezekiel Ho
Ezekiel actively works with a variety of Southeast Asian MNCs, Startups, and Government-linked companies to create presentation decks that effectively communicate ideas and value propositions for Fundraising, Award Competitions, Pitching, Product and Service Sales, and Skill Development in a visually compelling and intuitive format.
A firm believer in the impermanence of design, he constantly explores and breaks down design trends from a wide spectrum of design mediums to understand how the concepts used can be applied to presentations. In addition to implementing his findings in the decks he creates for clients, Ezekiel is also passionate about imparting his observations on the latest design trends to working professionals through his workshops to transform how ideas and information are communicated in presentations.
To date, his courses have enabled professionals from organizations such as the American Embassy, a*Star, FairPrice, LTA, MHA, NUS, NAC, PMO, Schenker, SUSS, UOB, and more to create visually captivating and persuasive presentations for their audiences.
Module 1: Content creation mistakes which everyone is guilty of, and their impact on audience engagement
It is common to make mistakes when creating slides – but how do these mistakes affect the quality of your presentation? Kickstarting the workshop, we examine some of the common presentation content design mistakes that professionals are still guilty of, and how these mistakes affect the audience’s perception of the presentation.
Module 2: Understanding the 5 Toolboxes of professional content designers
Like most professions, professional designers utilize a series of tools to aid them in creating stunning visual content for their audiences – this segment introduces you to the 5 Toolboxes that every professional designer relies on when creating content.
Module 3: PowerPoint functions and tools for creating stunning and unique decks efficiently
Understanding the software used is as important as having design know-how. Throughout this workshop, you will be introduced to various useful functions which alternative design software such as Canva lack – understanding how to utilize these functions enables you to expand your creative possibilities for designing unique content with PowerPoint.
Module 4: Key considerations prior to designing content for your presentation
Content design involves more than what audiences see on the screen – it also relies on the designer’s interpretation of project specifications and requirements. In this segment, we explore the various factors which designers take into consideration and their impact on how content is designed.
Module 5: How to structure and create unique slide layouts by using framing
Most professionals are reliant on templates for their presentation content but struggle when they need to create a unique layout for their slides. This segment introduces you to the concept of framing and how it can be used to give structure to blank slides, thus enabling you to create a wide variety of slide layouts easily.
Module 6: How to exploit Slide Master to create unique themed decks
Regardless of whether corporate templates are used when creating presentations, Slide Master plays a huge part in economizing your design process while mitigating the likelihood of certain design mistakes. In this segment, we explore the functions in Slide Master which enable us to create unique slide layouts more efficiently, as well as how to create our own unique PowerPoint theme for future presentations.
Module 7: Design techniques for creating cohesive and professional-looking content within slides
It’s no secret that colors and typography play a huge part in making slides look more visually engaging – but how do we use these effectively to our advantage when creating our own slides? This segment introduces you to essential concepts in color theory and typography which are used by professional designers to create captivating decks for their audiences.
Module 8: Creative alternatives to presenting content that captivates audiences
With a wide spectrum of visual content available for consumption across print and digital mediums, the content presented in your slides needs to be visually captivating to retain the audience’s attention. In this segment, we look at trending approaches in content presentation and explore the tools in PowerPoint which enable us to apply trending aesthetics in our content design.
Module 9: Best practices for simplifying and presenting text content as a professional designer
Text-heavy slides are a common issue in most presentations. This segment introduces you to a systematic process for simplifying text content within slides, as well as design techniques to make text content more visually engaging.
Module 10: Strategies to visualize data in an engaging and intuitive manner
Visualizing data is probably one of the most challenging aspects of design. In this segment, we explore various approaches for visualizing data, as well as design techniques to make our visualized data easier for audiences to understand and process.
Module 11: How to select and tastefully implement media resources (images, graphics, videos) like a professional designer
Visuals play a huge part in Presentations – they help audiences to better understand and remember the information being presented. This segment introduces you to the various types of media resources which can be used in a presentation, as well as the best practices when using the different types of media resources.
Module 12: Sources for media assets that can be used in your presentation
While there are many sources of media assets today, most professionals still rely on search engine images or caches of severely limited media resources provided by their organization. In this segment, you will be introduced to a variety of media resources and be introduced to the best practices when using them.
Module 13: How to effectively utilize Animations and Transitions to create immersive presentations
Many professionals perceive Animations and Transitions as being tacky and avoid using them in presentations. In the final segment of our workshop, we look at the differences between Animations and Transitions. You will also be introduced to the different Animation functions and gain clarity on how they can be applied effectively in a presentation to introduce information, draw emphasis to key aspects of the slide, or help audiences to visualize information.