This training document provides guidance on improving corporate presentations. It outlines objectives to comprehend and execute discussion topics, create successful presentations, and foster an improved presentation culture. Key topics covered include practice and preparation, creating the right ambiance, eight steps for powerful multimedia presentations including selecting fonts/images and engaging the audience, and effective delivery methods such as a moderate pace and not reading slides aloud. The overall goal is to equip participants with the tools to present successfully and enhance internal and external communication skills.

1. CORPORATE TRAINING
How to Make Better Presentations

2. INTRODUCTION
 Welcome to your new training.
 This training will provide us the tools to
present successfully.
 Our goal of presenting better should
improve our external and internal
communication skills.

3. OBJECTIVES
 Comprehend and execute the topics of
discussion.
 Create successful presentations moving
forward.
 Utilize this training to foster a new and
improved corporate presentation culture.

4. OVERVIEW
 This training is our corporate strategy for
presentation basics.
 Topics of discussion:
 Practice and preparing.
 Creating the ambiance.
 Eight Steps to Making a Powerful Multimedia
Presentation (Guffey & Loewy, 2011).
 Delivery Methods.

5. PRACTICE and PREPARING
 Do you have enough time?
 Rehearse and time yourself.
 Have handouts available.
 Note taking handouts should be distributed
prior to the start.
 Data handouts should be presented at the end.
 Are back up copies available?
(Guffey & Loewy, 2011)

6. CREATING the AMBIANCE
 Creating the perfect mood in the room.
 Can your audience see you?
 Utilize remotes that allow movement.
 Use pointers to engage the audience.
 Don’t let your slides run the discussion.
 Hide slides while discussion advances.
(Guffey & Loewy, 2011)

7. EIGHT STEPS
to Making a Powerful Multimedia Presentation
 These eight steps from Guffey and Loewy
will be our new guide to creating the most
“powerful multimedia presentation” (pg.
473).
 Start with text, “clear, consise, and
understandable” (pg. 473).
 Select background and fonts, be bold and
innovative.
(Guffey & Loewy, 2011)

8. EIGHT STEPS (cont…)
 Choose images that help communicate your
message and don’t get stale.
 Create simple graphics, expand in handouts.
 Add special effects with Animations.
 Create hyperlinks, break the monotony.
 Engage the audience with questions, quizzes,
or tests that foster discussion.
 Web based presentations are the future.
(Guffey & Loewy, 2011)

9. DELIVERY METHODS
 Talk natural and at a moderate pace.
 Project spoken word to the room.
 Repeat information that is critical.
 Ensure pauses are used appropriately.
 Do not read slides aloud.
 Memorization is not necessary.
 Audience can read faster than you can talk.
(Splane, 2006)

10. Summary
 Comprehend and execute the topics of
discussion.
 Practice and preparing.
 Creating the ambiance.
 Eight steps.
 Delivery methods.
Move forward with success in presentations;
embrace the new culture of our organization.