Search Results

Visuals: Images, Videos, and Objects LEARNING OUTCOMES Add images and clip art Add videos Arrange objects Adding Images and Clip Art Adding art, images and photographs is a way to both personalize your slides and reinforce your messag...

Assignment: Developing and Delivering Business Presentations Step 1: To view this assignment, click on Assignment: Developing and Delivering Business Presentations. Step 2: Follow the instructions in the assignment and submit your completed assignment into t...

What you’ll learn to do: Discuss the importance of networking, and identify strategies to increase your professional network Have you ever heard someone say, “He just got hired because his sister knows the manager”? That probably was not the only reason, but ...

LEARNING OUTCOME Describe the stages of career development Career experts say that people will change careers (not to mention jobs) five to seven times in a lifetime, so your career will likely not be a straight and narrow path. Be sure t...

LEARNING OUTCOME Explain how to acquire necessary skills, both in and out of class, for your career goals “Lifelong learning” is useful phrase to know in the twenty-first century because we are awash in new technologies that enable to gro...

LEARNING OUTCOME List transferable skills that will be valuable for any career path Transferable (soft) skills may be used in multiple professions. In looking at this page for transferable skills, which are largely soft skills, start to t...

LEARNING OUTCOME List specific skills that will be necessary for your career path If you lived and worked in colonial times in the United States, what skills would you need to be gainfully employed? What kind of person would your employer...

What you’ll learn to do: Discuss how to gain skills necessary for professional life There is no doubt that a huge percent of life is spent at work. If you were to work forty hours a week and live to seventy years old, thirty-five percent of total waking hours...

Why learn to network and apply for jobs? Nadine had worked as a manager at the local grocery store while attending college, working towards graduating from university with a BA in business. She appreciated the store’s support during her years of employment as...

Putting It Together: Developing and Delivering Business Presentations Let’s return to your presentation for SB ’18 and assume you were able to power through your doubts and accept the call. Now that you have a solid understanding of presentation tools, option...

Introduction to Using Google Slides What you’ll learn to do: Create a presentation using Google Slides Google Slides is a free program that’s part of Google’s suite of web-based applications, including Google Docs (word processing), Sheets (spreadsheets), Sl...

Making a Presentation for a Meeting LEARNING OUTCOMES Create a presentation intended for a business meeting With perspective on the technical tools, communications planning and information design, let’s take this learning for a test driv...

Bad Presentations LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss common mistakes in presentations For many, the prospect of developing and delivering a business presentation rates right up there with death and taxes. Interestingly, that same mixture of fear ...

What’s my Presentation About LEARNING OUTCOMES Identify the purpose, audience, and message of your presentation It may be helpful to think of your presentation as having three key parts or interlocking gears: purpose, audience and messag...

Parts of a Good Presentation LEARNING OUTCOMES Identify key features of a good presentation Like reverse engineering a product, we can distill the key features of a good presentation by looking at presentation evaluation scorecards. Refe...

Introduction to Making a Presentation for a Meeting What you’ll learn to do: Create a presentation intended for a business meeting Tools, no matter how sophisticated, are simply tools. Moving from the right tools to a good presentation involves perspective a...

Images, Videos, and Arranging Objects LEARNING OBJECTIVES Add images and clip art Add videos Arrange objects Images and Clip Art Figure 1. Using art and images adds impact and provides welcome relief to ...

Text Boxes and Themes LEARNING OBJECTIVES Insert text boxes Change presentation themes Text Boxes As with most actions in Google slides, there are multiple ways to add a text box: Select the Text box icon from the main menu (s...

Creating and Organizing Presentations LEARNING OUTCOMES Create and save a new presentation Add, delete, and move slides Googles Slides is free to use, but to do so requires a Google account. If you don’t already have a Google account (i...

LEARNING OUTCOME Identify strategies for networking In the context of career development, networking is the process by which people build relationships with one another for the purpose of helping each other achieve professional goals. Wh...