PowerPoint® Unplugged Seminar # 2170

Bring more professionalism and self-assurance to your presentations.

PowerPoint is a powerful tool that is intended to support presenters—not compete with or detract from them. That’s why giving a truly polished and memorable presentation with PowerPoint starts with “pulling the plug” on PowerPoint: setting the laptop aside and focusing first on what you want to say and how you’ll say it—and then on the tools you’re going to use. This new course encourages you to rethink and sharpen your presenting skills to achieve an optimal experience for your audience, and greater polish, poise and self-confidence for you.

How You Will Benefit

• Understand when to use (and not use) PowerPoint for presentations
• Stay focused on your message, not the medium
• Get practical tips for effective interaction between the presenter and the screen, computer and projector
• Achieve simplicity in PowerPoint slides while still holding your audience’s interest—even when dealing with technical jargon
• Learn graphic design basics to create effective visuals
• Practice in class with presentation equipment

What You Will Cover

• You're the presentation (not the PowerPoint slides)
• Keeping the presentation engaging and interactive
• Choosing a focus—informative or persuasive?
• How to handle legal matter, jargon and other “required information”
• When you have to cut down from 20 slides (40–50 minutes) to 4 slides (10 minutes)
• Openings, transitioning into the subject and closings
• Bringing all presentation components together for a successful finish

Who Should Attend

All business professionals (with some prior presenting experience) who must speak in front of an audience, make presentations or sell ideas to others with the use of PowerPoint. Attendees should have the ability to create basic slides. Note: Participants must bring a laptop computer with a recent version of PowerPoint installed. At the seminar, you’ll receive a flash drive with demos and tools for your use, both during the course and to take with you for handy reference back at your job.

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Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

1.5 day / 0.9 CEUs
Nonmembers $1,245 / AMA Members $1,095 / GSA $ 938

Schedule

We have 4 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between March 5, 2009 and July 23, 2009.

• Call 1-877-566-9441 for an AMA Training Consultant.
• E-mail customerservice@amanet.org
• Fax AMA Text Registration Form
• Mail AMA Text Registration Form