Presentation Reinforcement Through
Visual Aids Seminar
If
you could name one of the most challenging parts of
sitting through a presentation, what would it be? Certainly
some might point to boring presentations that seem to
go nowhere fast. Others might struggle with monotone
presenters who are better at “soothing”
an audience than informing an audience. Yet, one of
the most common problems presenters face is the inability
to use presentation media and visual aids effectively.
There are those who try to jam as much information as
possible onto a visual aid, be it a flipchart, PowerPoint
slide or overhead transparency. There are others who
write their entire presentation onto their slides and
then read it word for word to the audience with little
to no inflection. Worse yet are those who use old-style
overhead projectors and fumble with flimsy transparencies
while getting ink smudges on the slides and the projector.
All of these situations are terribly frustrating for
audiences. If, as a presenter, you want to be as effective
as possible, you need to understand how to use visual
aids to reinforce your message, not detract from your
message.
Presentation Reinforcement Through Visual Aids
is a hands-on skills-based workshop that provides participants
with multiple opportunities to build and use powerful
and effective visual aids in the classroom environment.
We teach participants why most visual aids fail to help
presentations and can actually cause presentations to
flounder and audiences to “tune out”. We
then focus on what constitutes a successful visual aid,
regardless of whether a presenter prefers to use a whiteboard
or utilizes a laptop with PowerPoint to speak to audiences.
Time is spent in several activities learning how to
put in place and then utilize visual aids so that participants
speak to their audiences rather than their visual aids.
Lastly, a discussion related to what visual aids are
the most effective, depending on the presentation situation,
will be covered. The end result will be an increase
in skills and knowledge related to using the right media
at the right time so as to make presentations as effective
as possible.
Class
Size: Up to 20 participants
Class
Length: Half-Day
Instructors:
One Presentations Training Center instructor
Availability:
Available as an on-site workshop
Skills
Learned: Presentation Reinforcement Through Visual
Aids is a half-day skills-based workshop. By attending
this workshop, participants will learn to:
- Avoid
the most common mistakes made when using visual aids
- Stop
reading presentations and start talking to the audience
-
Ensure that visual aids make discussions more engaging
-
Utilize techniques to make visual aids compelling
-
Take advantage of whiteboards and flip charts when
presenting or facilitating
- Build
PowerPoint presentations that reinforce messages
- Understand
what audiences expect from visual aids
- Provide
a demonstration using props or products
- Reinforce
their presentations through proper practice and visual
aid usage
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