About Visually Interactive Presentation	Popular Navigation Styles

If public speaking skills are important to your business and personal success, you’ll love this Relational Presentation Portfolio training series. It transforms boring PowerPoint presentations into creative, flexible, richly visual tools that help you tailor messages to viewers’ interests and needs. You’ll leave bullet points far behind and create unique, reusable, multimedia presentations that capture attention and stay with viewers long after your talk or training is over. Why just give an average presentation when you can really WOW them? Check out video clips below after watching this one to learn more about dynamic visual presentation and how it can work in your context.

So, here’s how the relational presentation portfolio training series is organized.

Choose between five skillsets that teach a wide array of presentation skills, visual design techniques, organizational strategies and navigation styles. Register for any combination of skillsets or select them all for maximum benefits and savings. Each skillset contains four 1-hour Web-based sessions that are live and interactive. And each session, in turn, features multiple timeslots, giving you scheduling flexibility. Class sizes are small and the instructor answers questions along the way as you work with your own presentation materials, giving you the best possible learning experience. Plus, all sessions are recorded so that you can review them at your convenience.

The idea is to gradually build what is known as a relational presentation portfolio, an interlinked collection all your slide shows that provides flexibility while speaking. It’s like turning your presentations into a powerful Web site where you can show any desired visual idea within seconds.

Let’s look at the topics taught in each skillset.

The first skillset, called Explorer, is perfect for beginning presenters because it assumes you are creating and delivering a basic presentation for the first time. You’ll quickly progress from there into learning all aspects of working with slide shows, including adding text, pictures, shapes, graphs, tables, diagrams, and hyperlinks. You’ll even explore a basic form of navigation that lets you display slides out of order. The Explorer skillset is kind of like a restaurant’s sampler plate. It provides a substantial taste of many concepts that are covered in more detail during later skillsets and it’s a great way to get your feet wet and see if more advanced presentation methods are right for you. The Explorer sessions also help you begin planning and building the structure of your relational presentation portfolio. You’ll learn how to create a presentation template that is customized with your own branding elements and colors for use over and over again while building future content. And you’ll plan a sitemap that acts like a guide for later portfolio development.

You may be wondering, “If I am already an experienced presenter and feel comfortable with using presentation software, can I skip this skillset and jump right into the Adventurer skillset instead?” The answer is yes. That’s fine, although you may be surprised at all the tips and tricks you’ll miss that even most experienced presenters don’t know. So the choice is up to you.

The second skillset, called Adventurer, covers a wealth of visual communication skills. You’ll leave bullet points behind to create colorful, visually engaging content instead. These sessions teach everything you’ll need to know about working with pictures and shapes on slides. Then go on to combine the magic of stories with pictures to create an even more magical technique called a picture story. You’ll dive into the more than 20 different roles pictures play in presentation, create screenshots, and learn the legal dos and don’ts of using other people’s pictures. We’ll even touch on photography techniques and explore slide layouts that promote effective learning. You’ll also explore color theory and learn graphic design skills you can do from within PowerPoint. After finishing the Adventurer skillset, you’ll feel much more creative and confident to expand your portfolio’s content in meaningful visual ways. Audiences certainly will notice the difference.

The third skillset, Leader, takes you into the wonderful world of interactive presentation. You’ll learn how to make several navigation styles that allow full flexibility with content while presenting. Imagine being in a sales situation or training venue with the ability to completely change your presentation’s direction at any moment with ease of having a café conversation. The Leader sessions take you there. You’ll create a back and forth navigation style called Showcase, as shown here, and then move on to In-line navigation, where a strip of navigation remains visible at the bottom of slides. Next comes zone navigation, where slides don’t necessarily contain any obvious navigation elements at all, but instead feature invisible hot spots on top of visual content, giving you amazing flexibility to drill down into extra detail or move in a different direction at any moment. You’ll also explore invisible navigation and finish with Custom Show navigation. During Leader sessions, your portfolio really begins to take on interactive power as you integrate dynamic techniques into your own slide shows.

The fourth skillset, Master, unleashes the awesome potential of video and animations. It takes the visual impact of your presentations a huge notch higher. Two of the sessions show you how to insert and edit short video snippets on slides in ways that capture attention and quickly get points across. Then continue on to create a powerful collection of video clips that are randomly accessible via navigation. Never again will you have to tell your audience, “Gee, I have a great video clip that shows an example of what I’m saying but it’s coming up later in the slide show.” Now your entire collection of video clips is available right now for random selection. The two remaining Master sessions teach the fine art of creating and using meaningful animations, motion on slides that actually helps you do something or helps viewers better understand your messages. Animations can fade in content on demand, allow you to spontaneously highlight numbers in a table or bars in a graph, illustrate sequential events, or show a dynamic process. You’ll learn these techniques and then apply the skills while creating a special kind of navigation called Animated Navigation. Animated navigation is hidden until you dynamically fade it into view when needed. It’s a great way to add a professional touch to dynamic performances.

The fifth skillset, Guru, is the culmination of lessons learned in all the former skillsets. Here you’ll learn sophisticated navigation styles that connect all your portfolio’s slide shows. You’ll have complete freedom to move around within any show at any time. It’s like converting your content collection into a highly flexible Web site. You’ll master topical navigation, where groups of slides exist in categories. Clicking upper links in this navigation style reveals relevant collections of links below. Cluster navigation is a similar strategy, except that category links appear at the bottom of slides and each click reveals an entire slide full of applicable links above. A third navigation style you’ll learn, called Outline, gathers all links onto a single slide, arranged into categories.

Ready to get started? Click the REGISTER button to sign up. Select multiple skillsets for quantity discounts, up to 40% off. And, if you are a student or a member of the military, work for a non-profit, or are doing good things for the world and feel like you deserve an additional discount, email us because we probably have a special promotional code for you that further lowers registration fees.

After finishing the skillsets, you’ll continue using the valuable lessons learned to expand your content collection and navigation web. Your relational presentation portfolio will be a living document that grows and changes with your evolving speaking needs. So, sign up today and make your presentations a spectacular success. You’ll have a great time learning with peers and soon find that public speaking is a fun and rewarding experience. Just let us know if we can be of further assistance.