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 won’t be subjected to the tedium of yet another ‘Death by PowerPoint’. They’ll 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 aren’t designed effectively then you’re 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 you’re trying to get across to your audience.

But even worse, you’ll 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 - part 1

Lesson 12: Mistakes to avoid - 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 PowerPoint’s 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: IT’S DESIGN TIME

Lesson 50: Working on your presentation

And a comprehensive workbook to accompany the course

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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

There’s 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 it’s 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.

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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 he’s 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 ‘Your Slides Suck!’ 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.

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