Managing the movement and controlling pace of your content to get the results you intend.
The ability to effectively guide an audience on an interactive journey through a presentation can catapult the professional profile of those who want to advance in the competitive workforce.
This course is a practical quick-start guide to teach you how to bring your presentations to life using Animations. Animations allow you to control the flow of presenting information so you can be authentically engaging and audience-centered.
I reveal how to enliven your presentations by using Animations to wake up sleepy, unimaginative, bullet-point-text content that has become the norm. To start, I teach you how to give movement and pizzaz to presentation content by sharing the fundamentals of Animations. Next, I share the purpose and power of using Animations to help you stand out with facilitation poise and your presentation unfold with impeccable timing. Then, I walk you through common workplace examples, actually using real Animations, to help you see and imagine how your next presentation can engender welcomed interaction from your audience, elevate your organizational profile, and highlight your professional value.
This course is the second in a series of three designed to provide the practical skills and knowledge for the effective presentation and delivery of information. Each course shares invaluable insight, “how to” instructions, and real workplace examples to illuminate concepts. This condensed but material-packed class enriches your knowledge and ability to create and deliver professional-looking presentations while sharpening your competitive advantage.
1 activity • 1 videos • duration: 1h 13m
Soft Skills Coach
I’m a CPA and seasoned career business analyst, applications developer, and project management professional with 25 years of progressive experience. Over my career, I’ve moved between employee and consulting roles providing a unique dual-sided perspective. I understand what it’s like to be an employee who wants to maximize their contribution and advance, as well as, a consultant who must be adept at engendering customer value using tools and experience. Today as an IT professional, I continue to competently use a variety of tools to promote customer value. However, technical skills are not enough; My career exposure has taught me a myriad of soft skills to effectively manage projects, facilitate meetings, present information, communicate verbally/in-writing, and lead teams of professionals. I now want to share my knowledge and experience with other professionals who seek to fortify their skills and sharpen their competitive advantage.
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I was familiar with animations but still learned some new tricks. I was distracted a bit when I tried to follow your session by opening a presentation on a second computer and noticed my animation tool bar didn't look like yours (entry, transition, and exit, didn't appear as separate sections on the tool bar). I assume that we are using different versions of PowerPoint. Took me a while to find the "Peek in" animation. I would also have liked to see you create one of your more complex slides from scratch. Start with a blank page and show me how each piece was built. You have a slide where you have a before and after using a wipe. The two images are on top of each other so I'm not sure how you click on each image to animate them given you will only have access to the top image. Perhaps a little more detail on the creation of the slides would have been helpful.
This course has helped me better understand what animation is and ideas of how to use animation in a useful ways.
Wonderful course! Explains extremely well how to use animations effectively to present information. Everyone building a presentation should take this course because it shows how to make it dynamic and how to keep the audience interested all the way through. Thank you so much, I know that I will use most of - if not all - notions and tips in my future presentations and I am looking forward to it!
