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How to convince executives that presenters need presentation skills training

May 6, 2013 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

I hear it all the time. It usually comes from people in the Communications or Marketing department. They’ve been reading this blog — and others — about how to create powerful, persuasive presentations. But executives at their organization are comfortable with the old way of using the slide as a teleprompter, even though the audience […]

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Filed Under: Content, Delivery, Design principles Tagged With: convince, executives, presentation skills, training

The role of persuasion and emotion in training

April 29, 2013 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

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I’ve always thought that persuasion and emotion were best left to sales and proposal presentations. After all, in an instructional setting, isn’t persuasion like propaganda?  But in my course, High-Persuasion PowerPoint Presentation Program, I’m discovering that I was wrong. Actually, a couple of my students have taught me this. Imagine that you are training employees […]

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The difference between a persuasive and an informative presentation

April 1, 2013 by Ellen Finkelstein 13 Comments

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I think that most presentations can be classified as persuasive or informative.These two presentation types can cover quite a range — more entertaining or less,  informal or keynote,for example. What is a persuasive presentation? Some  presentations are for the purpose of selling a product or service. Other presentations try to sell an idea. For example, […]

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Create training courses with screenshots within PowerPoint

January 20, 2013 by Ellen Finkelstein 8 Comments

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Screenshots are a staple of training courses, especially computer-related ones. So trainers are accustomed to using screenshot software to illustrate tutorials. Often, these screenshots end up in PowerPoint, which is used as the basis for an online course or self-running presentations. In PowerPoint 2010 and later, you can create these screenshots within PowerPoint. Here’s how […]

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Do you give out prizes when you train? Do you sing and dance?

May 7, 2012 by Ellen Finkelstein 7 Comments

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Trainers know that they have to work hard to keep the attention of their students. Recently, someone emailed me and said, I am a technical trainer…  My class varies in attendee background and experience and sometimes I feel the only way I can keep their attention is with a song and dance. I have had […]

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Filed Under: Delivery, PowerPoint training/presentation workshops Tagged With: interactivity, trainer, training

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