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Too many trainers rely on outdated PowerPoint presentations. Why not dust yourself down and acquire some new techno techniques?
Death by PowerPoint is a condition any self-respecting trainer hopes delegates will not experience after a session in their presence. To avoid it (possibly), trainers must be up to speed with the latest functionality made possible by PowerPoint 2007, the most recent release of Microsoft's marketleading presentation software.
So says Karen Moyse, managing director of communications training consultancy Kinetic Future, which holds courses on how to deliver successful business presentations.
To enhance the look of presentations, she advises downloading reasonablypriced images from one of the many websites offering a range of professional photographic images, such as Istockphoto.com.
Moyse is also a big fan of the ability to show all your PowerPoint slides on a single slide - a function that can be used to offer authences a choice of which slide they would like to go to next.
"By allowing the delegates to steer the presentation towards a subject that interests them, you stand a much greater chance of keeping people engaged," she adds.
Interaction
The importance of interaction with the authence is stressed by Matthew Jingell, group head of training at Promethean, which supplies interactive whiteboards.
Its trademarked Activboards act as a large computer screen - the latest product is...