The ability to create and collaborate on professional presentations is a key ingredient in management effectiveness in the digital economy.  In this workshop we will look at specific powerful techniques with tricks and tips to make highly effective presentations using the power and flexibility offered by PowerPoint.

Learning Objectives

Key Techniques in efficiency – Build formatted slide decks rapidly

• Understand what the Master, the Theme, the Layouts and their various components have to do with overall slide design, visual consistency and rapid slide deck formatting.
  
• Explore the power of content Outlines - work with Outlines for building presentations rapidly – and go from content Outline to Formatted slide deck in minutes! 
  
• Gain insights into Linked Content – Explore Object Linking for spreadsheets and documents - Create Linked presentations that update when the data they reference from spreadsheets changes. 

Key Techniques in effectiveness – make slide decks that are professional 

• Learn the Smart way to work with Smart Art – using the Smart Art feature with content outlines for quick and professional business diagrams.
  
• Explore Sections and the Insert Zoom feature for creating Non-linear presentations with ease.
  
• Explore the power under the hood with Automatic Captioning in one of many Languages.
  
• Gain an insight many professional features that can now be accessed from PowerPoint or built-in to PowerPoint – the Cameo feature and the Teleprompter.
  
• Using multiple monitors and the Presenter-view

Productivity module – Tips, Tricks and Techniques to increase your speed while working with slide decks

• COPILOT Module – A short module on the exciting new things you can do with Copilot

          º     Generate Notes
          º     Translate presentations
          º     Simplify text
          º     Generate Images

• Powerful Keyboard shortcuts for editing a presentation.
  
• Powerful Keyboard shortcuts while presenting – make your presentation seamless.
  

Special Notes/Requirements

Wherever needed, Microsoft Office for PC, Version 2013/2016/Office 365 will be used in the demonstration of techniques of this workshop. These workshops are Hands-on and require participants to work on the software.

Instructor: Paul Mascarenhas