Powerful Presentations
Craft compelling presentations in a dynamic two-day workshop. Gain insights, techniques, and hands-on experience for creating impactful and memorable presentations.
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Course Description
The Powerful Presentations Workshop is a two-day intensive workshop of lecture and hands-on work to provide an overview of concepts, techniques, and methods used to create effective, memorable presentations.
- Enhance message clarity and impact by mastering slide design techniques.
- Elevate data and analysis communication through improved presentation skills.
- Explore and share best practices for effective presentations.
- Analyze and refine presentation slide designs critically.
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Course Prerequisites
This course is for anyone interested in being a better, more effective, and more persuasive presenter. Participants should have the Microsoft PowerPoint software program installed on their computer.
What You Will Learn
Communicating data plays a crucial role in the work of researchers and analysts. Often, however, effective ways to communicate data is an after-thought, secondary to the analysis, which ultimately limits the effective relay of information. In this Powerful Presentations workshop, attendees will learn the key, practical strategies to creating, designing, and delivering great, effective presentations.
Powerful Presentations Workshop: Designing and Delivering for Impact is a training workshop that provides a well-rounded introduction to improving how people design and deliver their work. This workshop is divided into three main parts to guide attendees’ process from presentation conceptualization, to creation, to delivery. The first part focuses on planning the presentation; instead of booting up the computer and immediately inserting text, graphs, and images onto slides, attendees are presented with a process for outlining the content of their presentation. The second part is about building the presentation: how to create more effective text, graph, and image slides. The final section moves to the practical details of giving the presentation.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be familiar with the following topics:
- Learn how to increase message clarity and impact through better slide design
- Improve presentations to more effectively communicate data and analysis
- Learn, and exchange ideas about, presentation best practices
- Think critically about presentation slide design
Instructors
Jonathan Schwabish, an economist turned data communication expert, shares insights through blogs, tutorials, and the PolicyViz Podcast. As a Senior Fellow at The Urban Institute, he specializes in data visualization and presentation.
His expertise spans earnings inequality, disability insurance, and public policy. Jonathan advocates for equity in data work through the Do No Harm Project. He offers workshops and consulting services to aid organizations in effective communication.
As the author of three books, including "Better Presentations," Jonathan educates on data communication. He remains eager to assist in processing, analyzing, and presenting data through workshops and online resources. Stay connected via Twitter, YouTube, or direct contact.