“PowerPoint is easy...I learned it in a half-hour...”

The headline above is a true statement. The real question is whether that is good news or bad. We think it is bad news...very, very bad.

PowerPoint is probably the easiest program in the Office suite for getting started and learning rudimentary skills. Most people declare themselves proficient in under an hour. This wouldn’t be so distressing if these same people practiced their craft in their own cubicle, as they do with Excel and Access. Most presenters practice their craft in public...can you say Death by PowerPoint?

If you are like most, you no longer call yourself a beginner, but you never really learned the fundamentals of the program and have little or no sense of the finer skills and techniques that would increase your productivity and make you, or the people for whom you create presentations, more effective during delivery. Custom shows...triggered actions...sequenced animations...proper use of With Previous...false backgrounds...exit fades...there is a whole world waiting to be discovered by people willing to move beyond the skillset defined in the first 30 minutes of training.

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Call or email us to find out how you can begin making your presentations — from message to design and content creation, and through to delivery — the best possible first impression of your organization.