PowerPoint Psychology - Tips for Amazing PowerPoint Presentations

Module 1: Planning, Content, and Delivery

Topics:

• Using Storytelling Techniques in PowerPoint
• Techniques for Reporting Information Effectively
• Avoiding Boring PowerPoints
• Other Hard-To-Avoid Common Mistakes
• When to Read Slides Out Loud in a Monotone
• Handling Data-Heavy Presentations and Individual Slides
• Researching your Audience and Adapting your Presentation
• Using the Presenter View
• When to Use Humor and Animation
• Strategies To Reduce Information Overload
• Techniques to Increase Retention
• Making Content Decisions: Dropping, Moving, or Expanding

Module 2: Designing Clean and Impactful Slides

Topics: 

• Using PowerPoint as a Written Document
• Font Choices: Size, Readability and Other Matters
• Creating “Clean” Designs
• 3 Graphic Design Rules You Must Know
• What To Do with Too Much Information
• Creating Slides our Brains Naturally Understand
• Design Tips and Tricks for Non-Designers
• Imagery Placement, Backgrounds, Borders and More
• Bullets Have Their Own Set of Rules

What We'll Explore:

1. Discover presentation strategies to keep audience members engaged and increase retention.
2. Learn common mistakes people make while building presentations and how to avoid them.
3. Learn to create slides with just the right amount of information and what to do with the remainders.
4. Learn the three most important graphic design rules to ensure a clean and professional look.
5. Learn how to use font effects and techniques to catch the audience’s attention.
6. Learn how to optimally format and place images and bullets in slides.