How to be an Effective Presenter
Published by Pearson
Use the Right Images, Tools, and Speaking Techniques to Deliver Compelling Presentations that Get Results
This session starts by showing how to improve your speaking and presentation skills, then shows how to harness the power of visuals to engage an audience and get them emotionally excited about your ideas.
Far too many presenters lull their audience to sleep by either cramming “War and Peace” on a PowerPoint slide; or using so many cheap clip art cartoons that the audience dies a lingering death by visual drowning.
There’s a better way.
In this session, you'll learn how to find and use better images. How to interpret the hidden emotions of images and typefaces. How to pick visuals that reinforce your ideas. How to design presentations that generate results. Then how to present them effectively using your own skills as a presenter.
Whether you are an executive, software developer, engineer or anyone else who needs to convince others that your ideas are worth pursuing, you cannot afford to miss this session. Your presentations will be stronger, more effective, and your audience will thank you.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
By the end of the live online course, you’ll understand:
- Why effective visuals are particularly crucial in presentations today
- How to improve your presentation and speaking skills
- How to use visuals effectively in your presentations
And you’ll be able to:
- How to pick the right royalty-free images
- How to create effective images and photographs yourself
- How to use fonts effectively in a presentation
- How to design presentations that generate results
This live event is for you because...
- Anyone who needs help creating more effective presentations
- Anyone who wants to improve their presentation techniques
- Anyone who is hesitant speaking in front of people
Prerequisites
- A fundamental understanding of PowerPoint is helpful, but not required.
Recommended Preparation:
It would be useful, but not required, to review chapters 2, and 6-9 in Techniques of Visual Persuasion. The course material will be drawn from these sections of the book.
Recommended Follow-up:
- To learn more, please refer to: Techniques of Visual Persuasion – https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/techniques-of-visual/9780136766803/
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Segment 1: Improve Your Presentation Skills - 60 minutes
- Welcome
- Goals
- Agenda
- Before you start, change your mind-set
- Never lose sight of the fact that you, not your slides, are the star.
- Tips for speaking in public
- Learn how to control your fear
- Easy ways to be more personable and persuasive
- How to stop being afraid and begin to speak confidently
- Improve your mind-set
- Be prepared
- Always rehearse
- Nail the presentation
- Exercises to improve your speaking skills.
- Q&A
- BREAK - 10 minutes
Segment 2: Fewer Words, Better Images - 50 minutes
- The Imperative
- Why images are at the core of communication today
- How can images help us communicate more effectively?
- Analyzing still images to determine why they are effective
- Where to find images?
- Know copyright and ethics rules
- Understand Royalty, vs. Royalty-free
- Good places to find images
- How to search for an image
- Search for an emotion, not content
- Understand key image specs and orientation
- Guide the eye of the viewer
- Review of 6 Priorities that Control the Eye
- Exercises to improve selecting the right image
- Q&A
- BREAK - 10 minutes
Segment 3: The Art of Image Creation - 50 minutes
- Create great images yourself
- Necessary equipment: a cell phone is fine, for starters
- See what's actually in the frame
- Understand crop vs scale and how it affects your image
- Understanding photography techniques
- Good lighting
- The right framing
- The right blocking
- Finding balance
- Exercises to improve creating the right image
- Q&A
- BREAK - 10 minutes
Segment 4: Improve Your PowerPoint Presentations - 50 minutes
- Key PowerPoint tools
- Use the right fonts
- Make use of templates
- Things to avoid
- Watch your fonts
- How to select the right typeface
- PowerPoint design tips
- Creating charts that work
- Using the right text
- Integrating the right images
- Examples of designs that work…and some that don't
Wrap-up and Q&A
Your Instructor
Larry Jordan
Larry Jordan is a producer, director, editor, author, teacher, and Apple Certified Trainer in Digital Media with more than 45 year’s media experience with national broadcast and corporate credits. Based in Boston, he’s a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America. He’s been recognized with awards as an “Industry Innovator” and “Top Corporate [Media] Producers in America.” An Adjunct Professor at USC from 2011-2020, he’s written eleven books on media and software, thousands of technical tutorials, and created hundreds of hours of video training. His latest book is: “Techniques of Visual Persuasion.” Visit his website at: LarryJordan.com.