A Trainer’s Guide to PowerPoint\_ Best Practices for Master Presenters

Learn the Secrets Needed to Master PowerPoint for TrainingAs a successful facilitator, you know the importance of the resources in your professional toolkit. How you engage your audience and improve learning can be affected by how well you use them. But mastery of PowerPoint evades many. Feedback on presentations can range from "What was the point?" to "That changed my life." Most, though, fall closer to the former. If you are looking for a guide to the PowerPoint practices that will push your presentations into the latter category, look no further.A Trainer's Guide to PowerPoint: Best Practices for Master Presenters is Mike Parkinson's master class on the art of PowerPoint. While Parkinson wants you to understand how amazing a tool PowerPoint is, he's the first to tell you that there is no magic button to make awesome slides. There are, however, proven processes and tools that deliver successful PowerPoint content each and every time you use them. In this book he shares them, detailing his award-winning PowerPoint process and guiding you through three phases of presentation development—discover, design, and deliver. What's more, Parkinson is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP—most valuable professional—an honorific bestowed by Microsoft on those with "very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services." He shares not only his tips and best practices for presentation success, but also those from several of his fellow MVPs. Parkinson invites you to master PowerPoint as a tool—just like a paintbrush and paint—and to realize that the tool doesn't make the art, you do. Learn the Secrets Needed to Master PowerPoint for Training As a successful facilitator, you know the importance of the resources in your professional toolkit. How you engage your audience and improve learning can be affected by how well you use them. But mastery of PowerPoint evades many. Feedback on presentations can range from "What was the point?" to "That changed my life." Most, though, fall closer to the former. If you are looking for a guide to the PowerPoint practices that will push your presentations into the latter category, look no further. A Trainer's Guide to PowerPoint: Best Practices for Master Presenters is Mike Parkinson's master class on the art of PowerPoint. While Parkinson wants you to understand how amazing a tool PowerPoint is, he's the first to tell you that there is no magic button to make awesome slides. There are, however, proven processes and tools that deliver successful PowerPoint content each and every time you use them. In this book he shares them, detailing his award-winning PowerPoint process and guiding you through three phases of presentation development--discover, design, and deliver. What's more, Parkinson is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP--most valuable professional--an honorific bestowed by Microsoft on those with "very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services." He shares not only his tips and best practices for presentation success, but also those from several of his fellow MVPs. Parkinson invites you to master PowerPoint as a tool--just like a paintbrush and paint--and to realize that the tool doesn't make the art, you do Learn the Secrets Needed to Master PowerPoint for Training As a successful facilitator, you know the importance of the resources in your professional toolkit. How you engage your audience and improve learning can be affected by how well you use them. But mastery of PowerPoint evades many. Feedback on presentations can range from What was the point? to That changed my life. Most, though, fall closer to the former. If you are looking for a guide to the PowerPoint practices that will push your presentations into the latter category, look no further. PowerPoint for Trainers: Best Practices for Master Presenters is Mike Parkinson's master class on the art of PowerPoint. While Parkinson wants you to understand how amazing a tool PowerPoint is, he's the first to tell you that there is no magic button to make awesome slides. There are, however, proven processes and tools that deliver successful PowerPoint content each and every time you use them. In this book he shares them, detailing his award-winning PowerPoint process and guiding you through three phases of presentation development--discover, design, and deliver. What's more, Parkinson is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP--most valuable professional--an honorific bestowed by Microsoft on those with very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services. He shares not only his tips and best practices for presentation success, but also those from several of his fellow MVPs. Parkinson invites you to master PowerPoint as a tool--just like a paintbrush and paint--and to realize that the tool doesn't make the art, you do Title Page......Page 2 Copyright......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 Introduction......Page 5 Phase 1: Discover......Page 16 Chapter 1: The Four Keys to Discovery: Problem, Mission, Learner, and Subject Matter......Page 18 Phase 2: Design......Page 43 Chapter 2: Writing a Powerful Takeaway......Page 44 Chapter 3: Storyboards for Faster Design......Page 56 Chapter 4: Render: PowerPoint Tips, Tricks, and Secrets......Page 78 Chapter 5: Render: Design Principles for Professional Slides......Page 114 Phase 3: Deliver......Page 145 Chapter 6: 10 Best PowerPoint Delivery Practices......Page 146 Chapter 7: Delivering Your PowerPoint Presentation......Page 161 Afterword......Page 175 Appendix A......Page 177 Appendix B......Page 189 Glossary......Page 194 References......Page 202 About the Author......Page 204 Index......Page 206 Resource added for the Business Management program 101023