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Introduction to Speech Tips and Techniques What you’ll learn to do: Discuss tips and tricks to giving an effective speech We’re living in a time where ideas—learning and sharing—are essential skills. According to communication coach and bestselling author Ca...

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...

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...

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...

Editing and Enhancing a PowerPoint Presentation LEARNING OUTCOMES Add, delete, and move slides Insert text boxes Change theme on a presentation Now that you’ve created a presentation, let’s start adding to it! If you closed your presen...

Overcoming Fears and Anxiety LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss various strategies for overcoming common fears and anxiety about public speaking In addressing fear of public speaking, author and professional speaker Michael Aun shares a quote fro...

New Presentations LEARNING OUTCOMES Create and save a new presentation At the Microsoft Office 365 home page, you will see a selection of apps as well as any recently-viewed documents. To open PowerPoint, click on the PowerPoint icon. Th...

Introduction to Using Microsoft PowerPoint What you’ll learn to do: Create a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint PowerPoint is one of several applications in Microsoft’s Office product line, including enterprise staples Outlook (email and calendar), Exce...

Presentation Tools and Visual Aids LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss key concepts to keep in mind as you create business presentations Discuss available presentation tools to help engage your audience Key Considerations Figure ...

Introduction to Visual Aids What you’ll learn to do: Discuss the usefulness of visual aids and identify common presentation tools How does one prepare for the proverbial call or career moment? In this module, we’ll focus specifically on busines...

Why It Matters: Developing and Delivering Business Presentations It’s mid-May; a major retail management conference is less than one month away. Your manager has been recruited as a speaker in the Redesigning Retail track at the annual Sustainable Brands conf...

Discussion: Public Speaking Step 1: To view this discussion prompt, click on Discussion: Public Speaking. Step 2: Read the prompt and instructions, then post your response and comments inside of the discussion forum. LICENSES AND ATTRIBUTIONS CC LI...

Putting It Together: Public Speaking Becoming a public speaker is a rite of passage, an event that marks one’s emergence as a business or civic leader. Unlike a title that generally requires an external award decision, the accompanying change in status is a r...

Pro Tips LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss public speaking strategies of effective public speakers In this section, we’ll focus in on a few key tips and resources drawn from bestselling author and communication coach Carmine Gallo’s Talk Like TE...

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 ...