ABOUT THE ONLINE COURSE
The Ultimate Slide Presentation Online Course is the antidote to PowerPoint pain. It will relieve the discomfort you feel from presenting with sub-standard slides and, more importantly, your audience wonât be subjected to the tedium of yet another âDeath by PowerPointâ. Theyâll be fully engaged and receptive to your message.
Do you want to be a much better presenter and visual communicator?
Do you want to learn how you can the audience in the palm of your hand and make your presentations engaging, empowering and effective?
Then this course is designed for you!
If your slides arenât designed effectively then youâre giving yourself and your audience a big problem. And the consequences can be very serious. It can harm your brand and reputation and will almost certainly destroy the message youâre trying to get across to your audience.
But even worse, youâll be presenting to a sea of unengaged faces - people looking at their phones, gazing out of the window or, worse still, getting up and walking out of the room.
Discover how to wow your audience and achieve your objectives.
50 lessons with 6+ hours of video content
(and MUCH more in The Vault)
With exercises, interactive content and 100+ technique videos in The Vault
MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION
Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: What is a presentation?
MODULE 2: BEFORE YOU OPEN POWERPOINT
Lesson 3: A SAMPLE of RICE - SAMPLE
Lesson 4: Story structure
Lesson 5: A SAMPLE of RICE - RICE
MODULE 3: DESIGNING SLIDES
Lesson 6: Design basics
Lesson 7: Using templates
Lesson 8: Using text
Lesson 9: Fonts
Lesson 10: Designing from a script
Lesson 11: Mistakes to avoid -Â part 1
Lesson 12: Mistakes to avoid -Â part 2
Lesson 13: Slides vs. handouts
MODULE 4: TRANSITIONS AND ANIMATIONS
Lesson 14: The basics of transitions and animations
Lesson 15: How to use animations
Lesson 16: Examples of creative animations
Lesson 17: The morph transition
Lesson 18: Using hyperlinks
MODULE 5: COLOUR
Lesson 19: Basics of colour
Lesson 20: Colour palettes
MODULE 6: SHAPES AND DIAGRAMS
Lesson 21: Basics of shapes and diagrams in PowerPoint
Lesson 22: The psychology of shapes
Lesson 23: Using icons
Lesson 24: Using Smart Art
Lesson 25: Merging shapes
Lesson 26: Formatting and editing shapes
MODULE 7: DRAWING
Lesson 27: Using the drawing tools
MODULE 8: IMAGES
Lesson 28: An introduction to images
Lesson 29: Image types and formats
Lesson 30: Things to avoid when using images
Lesson 31: Image usage examples
Lesson 32: Five image usage techniques
Lesson 33: Using 3D images
Lesson 34: An overview of PowerPointâs image editing features
Lesson 35: Editing images
MODULE 9: VIDEO AND AUDIO
Lesson 36: Using video on slides
Lesson 37: Using audio on slides
MODULE 10: PRESENTING WITH DATA
Lesson 38: Chart types
Lesson 39: Decluttering your charts
Lesson 40: Chart tools in PPT
Lesson 41: Creating charts manually
Lesson 42: Creative charts
Lesson 43: Using tables
MODULE 11: VIRTUAL PRESENTING
Lesson 44: Your tech setup
Lesson 45: Online presenting hints and tips
Lesson 46: Using slides online
Lesson 47: Alternative methods of presenting
MODULE 12: SETTING UP FOR SUCCESS
Lesson 48: Tips to make sure everything runs smoothly
Lesson 49: Accessibility issues
MODULE 13: ITâS DESIGN TIME
Lesson 50: Working on your presentation
And a comprehensive workbook to accompany the course
Just a few of the takeaways from the
Ultimate Slide Presentation Online Course
Lessons 3 and 5
Discover two acronyms that will help you to establish the questions you need to ask before starting a presentation and help you decide when to use a slide and, just as importantly, when not to.
Lesson 7
Find out the one big thing that makes PowerPoint suck and what you can do to nullify it and use it to your advantage.
Lesson 32
Thereâs a lot of content on using images in the course. This lesson explains five image usage techniques that you can deploy to zhoosh up your presentations.
Lesson 42
Badly designed charts will simply leave your audience confused and disengaged. Producing charts creatively will ensure your message hits home and this lesson shows you how.
Lesson 48
And when itâs time to present, this comprehensive lesson gives you all the tools you need to ensure that everything runs to plan so that you deliver your message professionally and confidently.
About your trainer: David Henson
David is the Slide Presentation Man. He set up The Regent Slide Company in 1986 and produced thousands of 35mm slides for many and varied businesses. And he knows that even good presenters produce and use bad slides. And now heâs on a crusade to eradicate excruciatingly boring PowerPoint presentations and to teach people how to produce slides that wow their audiences, keep their attention and make their presentations more memorable and effective.
His book âYour Slides Suck!â was published in 2017 and he now designs and produces slide presentations, delivers private coaching and online training, and also speaks on the subject. As well as this online course, David also runs sought-after masterclasses for organisations to empower people to raise the level of their presentation visuals.
