Visual Storytelling
Have you ever been held captive by the speaker who pounds you with slide after slide of text while they read every bullet point to you? This next question might hurt a little… have you ever been that speaker? Ouch. While none of us want to be that person, some of us have never been taught any other way of presenting effective slides… until now!
Who is it for?
- Business Professionals
- Sales Professionals
- Individual Contributors
Attendees
- Up to 100 to attendees
What are the benefits?
Visual Storytelling will help you define a memorable storyline and then transform it into engaging visual aids for your audience. Our simple design techniques can be used by anyone and have a profound effect on your audience. Don’t settle for confusing slides full of text! In this class you will develop a business presentation to be more interactive and visually appealing to your audience.
- Develop a corporate presentation to be more interactive and interesting to your audience
- Change one of your presentations so the data tells a story instead of just presenting information
- Work with your peers in the evaluation and development of your ideas for engaging the audience
- Learn the basic techniques of visual design for creating effective slides
- Implement four design methods for drawing the audience’s attention
- Build a storyboard to transition your message to visual presentation
- Create more succinct and powerful visual aids using the three basic slide design foundations
- Redesign your older slides to create more attractive and impactful slides
- Leave the workshop with documented (video recorded and written) feedback from a professional speaker and your peers
Programme Activities
Define the Purpose and Audience for your Message
Each participant will define the audience today and the desired change in the audience after the presentation.
Create a Storyboard
Each student will create a storyboard to assist in the development of the visuals.
Present your Storyboard
Students will present their storyboards in groups and get peer feedback.
Develop your Visual Aids
Redesigning the visuals will be done on your laptop using your presentation software.
Develop your Visual Aids
Presentations delivered and video recorded with feedback for the students.
Objectives and Outcomes
- Define your starting position and your goal for a message
- Discover how to create effective presentation artifacts (handouts)
- Create more effective slide titles by changing your old slides
- Discover the 3 phases of how an audience interacts with your slides
- Leverage the 3 foundations of slide design to rebuild your own slides
- Learn new PowerPoint and slide design techniques
- Use your current slide decks and laptop to create new slides and present to the class
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Programme Reviews From Past Attendees
I can honestly say that this course + facilitator was the “best ever”. Really enjoyed throughout and so beneficial. I would highly recommend this course… I can honestly say that this course + facilitator was the “best ever”. Really enjoyed throughout and so beneficial. I would highly recommend this course to other colleagues. Many thanks.
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In my entire MBA Leadership and Development course the best part was training of Presentation Skills and Public Speaking skills by Paul Slattery. He is… In my entire MBA Leadership and Development course the best part was training of Presentation Skills and Public Speaking skills by Paul Slattery. He is the best coach and mentor I met so far in Ireland. Today, I feel way more confident in presenting in front of wider audience and this is all because of the training that I received from Paul. Would highly recommend Paul training for both Native and Non-Native English speakers as it is all about developing a personality that can be demonstrated to Worldwide multi culture audience.
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Paul was very engaging and helpful. He had a wealth of knowledge and was eager to impart his wisdom to the group. The energy levels… Paul was very engaging and helpful. He had a wealth of knowledge and was eager to impart his wisdom to the group. The energy levels on the course were excellent. Personally, I found the course extremely beneficial to my limited presentation experience.
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We worked with Paul and his NxtGEN team on a Sales and Organisational Development programme over a four-month period, and I must say we are… We worked with Paul and his NxtGEN team on a Sales and Organisational Development programme over a four-month period, and I must say we are delighted with the outcome. Paul helped identify a number of areas where we could improve performance, and he tailored the communications module of the course to ensure our sales and engineering teams had the tools to dig beneath the surface of what the client initially asked. I’d highly recommend NxtGEN to any organisation who want to upskill their sales negotiation skills..
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The course was very entertaining and informative. It brought real life situations into the workshop which really highlighted how to deal with these things during… The course was very entertaining and informative. It brought real life situations into the workshop which really highlighted how to deal with these things during work. Thank you to Paul who helped me to feel as comfortable as possible. Being a new member of the company I had more pressure and Paul was very patient with me.
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Have you ever been held captive by the speaker who pounds you with slide after slide of text while they read every bullet point to you? This next question might hurt a little… have you ever been that speaker? Ouch. While none of us want to be that person, some of us have never been taught any other way of presenting effective slides… until now!
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