As a successful facilitator, you know the importance of the resources in your professional toolkit. How you engage your audience and improve learning can be affected by how well you use them. But mastery of PowerPoint evades many. Feedback on presentations can range from “What was the point?” to “That changed my life.” Most, though, fall closer to the former. If you are looking for a guide to the PowerPoint practices that will push your presentations into the latter category, look no further. A Trainer's Guide to PowerPoint: Best Practices for Master Presenters is Mike Parkinson's master class on the art of PowerPoint. While Parkinson wants you to understand how amazing a tool PowerPoint is, he's the first to tell you that there is no magic button to make awesome slides. There are, however, proven processes and tools that deliver successful PowerPoint content each and every time you use them. In this book he shares them, detailing his award-winning PowerPoint process and guiding you through three phases of presentation developmentdiscover, design, and deliver. What's more, Parkinson is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVPmost valuable professionalan honorific bestowed by Microsoft on those with “very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services.” He shares not only his tips and best practices for presentation success, but also those from several of his fellow MVPs. Parkinson invites you to master PowerPoint as a tooljust like a paintbrush and paintand to realize that the tool doesn't make the art, you do. -- amazon.com.

The four keys to discovery: problem, mission, learner, and subject matter -- Writing a powerful takeaway -- Storyboards for faster design -- Render: PowerPoint tips, tricks, and secrets -- Render: design principles for professional slides -- 10 best PowerPoint delivery practices -- Delivering your PowerPoint presentation