PowerPoint is Not a Teleprompter!

Are you as a presenter (ok, or anyone you know) guilty of the following?

• I ran out of time, so I just "threw together" my PowerPoint slides last night
• I'm not feeling confident about remembering my content, so I probably put more words on my slides than I should have...but my audience won't notice
• I don't know where to get pictures or how to put them on the slides
• But my audience "needs" all that information
• My fourth grader offered to show me some PowerPoint "tricks" so I have to use them
• I'm just not that creative

There are a myriad of bad PowerPoint habits out there. In fact, PowerPoint gets such a bad rap these days that "death by bullet point" is a commonly used phrase. If you are familiar with any of the statements above, you've probably developed your own bad habits. And your audience is suffering because of them.

Here's the good news. It's relatively simple to make some changes that relieve your audience of the burden of sitting through another bad PowerPoint presentation. In fact, you'll be pleased to know that good PowerPoint will make your presentation more compelling, more memorable and, well, you'll probably have more fun giving it.

Join Presentation Design Guru, Susan Stoen, in this hour-long session to learn the following:

• Ideas for alternatives to bullet-point slides (with too much text)
• Common (novice) mistakes to avoid
• Effective ideas for keeping the audience on track
• Lots of PowerPoint dos and don'ts
• When (and when not) to use animation
• Why the way your presentation looks affects your credibility

This session will reveal the design elements your presentation "must have" in order to be great. Many ideas and methods will be shared to help you capture these elements so that your PowerPoint is exciting, memorable and effective.

Oh, and one more thing. If you're delivering by webinar, these bad habits are amplified because you've lost your face to face connection with the audience. Which means it's even more important to serve up some fabulous visuals.

Who should attend? Those who have a good working knowledge of PowerPoint and are looking for new creative ideas. Or for managers and executives who have others create their presentations and would like to know what defines great PowerPoint.

Note: Because of the program's time length, this session is aimed more toward sharing and inspiring creative ideas than addressing the technical steps of "how did you do that?"

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