Speaking PowerPoint

Welcome to Speaking PowerPoint Training
	Hello! I’m Bruce Gabrielle, your instructor and author of Speaking PowerPoint: the New Language of Business. I look forward to meeting you on Monday, Aug 29 (9 AM – 12 noon) for the first of three half days of Speaking PowerPoint training. PRE-WORK You’ll be re-working YOUR PowerPoint slides during the workshop, so please: Bring your laptop to class. Before class, choose a slide you’d like to re-do during the workshop. It should be 1) relatively complex (simple slides are too easy to fix) and 2) have no animation (so others can grade it without clicking through)
	WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Speaking PowerPoint is for smart business professionals who have a hard time getting their great ideas onto PowerPoint slides. Instead, their slides are overwhelming, hard to understand, hard to present and even amateurish-looking. If your ideas are unclear and sloppy looking, that can hurt your project, your image and ultimately your career progress. In this training, we’ll learn a framework for building clearer, more persuasive and more professional looking PowerPoint slides for business presentations – and in half the time! By the end of the workshop, you will know how to: Structure your entire presentation, including developing a key message, supporting storyline and how to brainstorm and sequence your content to engage and persuade. Develop a clear and persuasive slide using the slide title, the right mix of text and pictures, and techniques to recognize and avoid overwhelming your audience even when your content is complex. Use design principles like color, layout and slide aesthetics to enhance your credibility, emphasize your key message and increase your ability to persuade. Design graphs and tables that tell a story instead of overwhelming with data.
	VIDEO TIPS Also, you may enjoy these videos showing some great PowerPoint tips and tricks. Feel free to share these videos with your colleagues. Once again, I look forward to meeting all of you!