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We've all sat through far more bad presentations than good ones, but knowing what 'good' looks like is easier than successfully replicating it. Sales presentations are a performance and, as salespeople, fluffing our lines can cost us a lot more than hurt pride. Having discovered and understood the specific needs and burning issues our prospect has, then this course will help any salesperson avoid dropping the ball and instead wowing their prospects with a high-impact, tailored and compelling case for purchase. This course will help participants: Prepare mentally and physically for stand-up presentations Use voice modulation and bullet-pointing to demand attention Avoid boring their prospects Master the do's and don'ts of PowerPoint Deal more effectively with technical hitches and prospect's interruptions Use eye contact and engagement to avoid prospects 'tuning out' Deploy best practice essentials for presenting with colleagues Steer through the toughest Q&A 1 Preparing your presentation Mindset Knowing your objective(s) Vocal warm-up techniques Assembling pre-agreed benefits Time management Room set-up Technical preparation 2 How to open your presentation Vocal energy Summary and agreement of prospect's needs How to have posture and confidence Use of humour What to do with those dreaded hands Confident v non-confident body language 3 How to get and keep people's attention Bullet pointing Linking benefits to specific, stated needs Practical exercise - formulating and delivering tailored benefits Being selective with features Third party reinforcement and case studies 'Watering the garden' eye contact technique Practical exercise - participants practise 'sharing out' eye contact to audience How to handle a prospect's negative body language Handling interruptions 4 Presenting in groups Credentialing all participants Role delineation for group presentations Edifying other participants' messages - do's and don'ts How to maintain energy when not speaking Practical exercise - good and bad practice when not speaking Teamwork in Q&A sessions How to hand over professionally 5 PowerPoint do's and don'ts Use of visual aids Good and bad PowerPoint slides How to make PowerPoint work for you Classic PowerPoint errors Avoiding and handling technical problems Good and bad flipchart practice 6 Closing and / or achieving next action steps Power of summary Good Q&A practice Handling objections Practical exercise - handling objections on one's feet Creating consensus among prospect panel What to do when prospects disagree with each other When to trial close How to close on next action steps 7 Wrap-up Key learning points from each participant Action steps to be implemented on next presentations

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for business users and knowledge workers in a variety of roles and fields who have competence in a desktop-based installation of the Microsoft Office 2010, 2013, or 2016 edition of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, and who are now extending Microsoft Office to a collaborative cloud-based Office 365 environment. Overview In this course, you will build upon your knowledge of the Microsoft Office desktop application suite to work productively in the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 environment. You will: Sign in, navigate, and identify components of the Office 365 environment. Create, edit, and share documents with team members using the Office Online apps, SharePoint, OneDrive© for Business, and Delve. Collaborate and work with colleagues using the Yammer and Planner apps. Use email and manage contacts with Outlook on the web. Collaborate using Teams. Configure Teams. This course introduces working with shared documents in the familiar Office 365 online apps?Word, PowerPoint©, and Excel©?as an alternative to installing the Microsoft© Office desktop applications. This course also introduces several productivity apps including Yammer?, Planner, and Delve© that can be used in combination by teams for communication and collaboration. Prerequisites Outlook - Part 1 PowerPoint - Part 1 Word 2016 - Part 1 Using Microsoft Windows 10 1 - GETTING STARTED WITH OFFICE 365 Topic A: Sign In to Office 365 Topic B: Navigate the Office 365 Environment 2 - COLLABORATING WITH SHARED FILES Topic A: Work with Shared Documents in SharePoint Topic B: Edit Documents in Office Online Topic C: Collaborate on the SharePoint Site Topic D: Work with OneDrive for Business and Delve 3 - USING PRODUCTIVITY APPS Topic A: Work with Productivity Apps in Combination Topic B: Broadcast Messages with Yammer Topic C: Manage Tasks with the Planner App 4 - USING OUTLOOK ON THE WEB Topic A: Send and Receive Email Topic B: Manage Contacts Topic C: Schedule Appointments Topic D: Personalize Outlook on the Web 5 - COLLABORATING WITH TEAMS Topic A: Overview of Microsoft Teams Topic B: Converse and Share in Teams Topic C: Call and Meet in Teams Topic D: Collaborate with Office 365 Apps and Teams 6 - CONFIGURING TEAMS Topic A: Configure Teams Topic B: Configure Channels Topic C: Configure Tabs

Course Overview This comprehensive Microsoft Office course provides an in-depth understanding of the core Office applications—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. Designed to develop essential digital skills, it equips learners with the ability to navigate each program with confidence, improving document creation, data management, presentations, and database handling. Covering both foundational and advanced features, the course is ideal for those looking to boost their efficiency in a variety of business and administrative contexts. By the end of the course, learners will have the capability to produce professional documents, organise data in spreadsheets, create impactful presentations, and manage information through databases. This structured training ensures clarity in using Microsoft Office tools to support workplace productivity and enhance employability across multiple sectors. Course Description This course explores the full functionality of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access—focusing on both classic and new features of the 2019 versions. Learners will begin with the essentials, such as creating and formatting documents, performing calculations in spreadsheets, and developing effective slide presentations. As the modules progress, learners will delve into more detailed features, including managing lists, inserting graphics, handling data queries, and designing user-friendly reports. The training also includes familiarisation with the interface and workflow improvements in each application, offering structured, sequential guidance. Ideal for office professionals, jobseekers, and administrative staff, the course enhances digital fluency and enables learners to carry out a wide range of clerical and operational tasks using the Microsoft Office suite. Course Modules Module 01: Microsoft Excel 2019 New Features Module 02: Getting Started with Microsoft Excel Module 03: Performing Calculations Module 04: Modifying a Worksheet Module 05: Formatting a Worksheet Module 06: Printing Workbooks Module 07: Managing Workbooks Module 08: Microsoft Word 2019 Module 09: Microsoft Word 2019 New Features Module 10: Getting Started with Word Module 11: Formatting Text and Paragraphs Module 12: Working More Efficiently Module 13: Managing Lists Module 14: Adding Tables Module 15: Inserting Graphic Objects Module 16: Controlling Page Appearance Module 17: Preparing to Publish a Document Module 18: Workbooks - Microsoft Word 2016 (Beginner) Module 19: Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 Module 20: Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 New Features Module 21: PowerPoint Interface Module 22: Presentation Basics Module 23: Formatting Module 24: Inserting Options Module 25: Working with Objects Module 26: Table Module 27: Charts Module 28: Review and Presentation Module 29: Microsoft Access 2019 Module 30: Microsoft Access 2019 New Features Module 31: Introduction to Access Module 32: Modify Data Module 33: Working with Queries Module 34: Access Forms Module 35: Working with Reports (See full curriculum) Who is this course for? Individuals seeking to improve their office software knowledge for employment. Professionals aiming to upgrade their digital skills in a business setting. Beginners with an interest in learning Microsoft Office applications. Jobseekers and administrative workers looking to strengthen their CVs. Career Path Administrative Assistant Data Entry Officer Office Manager Project Coordinator Personal Assistant Executive Support Roles Customer Service Representative Database Administrator (Entry-Level)

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is designed for individuals who need to present information effectively in a professional environment. Overview This program can benefit anyone who presents; a trainer, a meeting facilitator, speaker, or seminar discussion leader. No matter which role you are assuming, this workshop will help you become more efficient and proficient with the skills of providing information to others. In this course, students will learn active listening skills to facilitate the exchange of ideas in meetings and presentations. They will also organize your ideas to create coherent and convincing oral presentations. Getting Started Icebreaker Housekeeping Items The Parking Lot Workshop Objectives Creating the Program Performing a Needs Analysis Writing the Basic Outline Researching, Writing, and Editing Choosing Your Delivery Methods Basic Methods Advanced Methods Basic Criteria to Consider Verbal Communication Skills Listening and Hearing: They Aren?t the Same Thing Asking Questions Communicating with Power Non-Verbal Communication Skills Body Language It?s Not What You Say, it?s How You Say It Overcoming Nervousness Preparing Mentally Physical Relaxation Techniques Appearing Confident in Front of the Crowd Creating Fantastic Flip Charts Required Tools The Advantages of Pre-Writing Using Colors Appropriately Creating a Plan B Creating Compelling PowerPoint Presentations Required Tools Tips and Tricks Creating a Plan B Wow 'Em with the Whiteboard Traditional and Electronic Whiteboards Using Colors Appropriately Creating a Plan B Vibrant Videos and Amazing Audio Required Tools Tips and Tricks Creating a Plan B Pumping it Up a Notch Make Them Laugh a Little Encourage Discussion Dealing with Questions Wrapping Up Words from the Wise Review of Parking Lot Lessons Learned Completion of Action Plans and Evaluations Additional course details: Nexus Humans Presentation Skills training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Presentation Skills course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

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Data has become the most important resource for every organisation – but the insights gained from data analysis will only ever be truly valuable if they can be clearly expressed to other people.  This course is for anybody who works with data, and needs to communicate the meaning that's in the numbers to colleagues, customers, bosses or external stakeholders.  It will give you or your team the confidence and skills to translate raw data into compelling visual stories for your key audiences. The principles and skills covered apply to the simplest PowerPoint chart, to more complex interactive visualisations.  We’ll work with you before the course to ensure that we understand your organisation and what you’re hoping to achieve.  Sample learning content Session 1: What makes a great data-driven story The key elements of a successful infographic or presentation. Industry best practice, and discussion of good (and bad) examples. A simple framework for identifying the Audience, Story and Action. Session 2: Data in context How to balance function and aesthetic appeal. Identifying the right graph, chart, infographic or other visual. Framing the data and providing contextual information. Session 3: Designing for the human brain Using colours to add emphasis and meaning. Design and layout principles, and creating hierarchies of information. The principle of ‘self-sufficiency’, and removing clutter. Session 4: Navigation and narrative Tailoring visualisations for different types of communications. Structuring presentations and longer reports. Thinking in layers to create interactive dashboards. Delivery We deliver our courses over Zoom, to maximise flexibility. The training can be delivered in a single day, or across multiple sessions. All of our courses are live and interactive – every session includes a mix of formal tuition and hands-on exercises. To ensure this is possible, the number of attendees is capped at 16 people.  Tutor Alan Rutter is the founder of Fire Plus Algebra. He is a specialist in communicating complex subjects through data visualisation, writing and design. He teaches for General Assembly and runs in-house training for public sector clients including the Home Office, the Department of Transport, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Health Foundation, and numerous local government and emergency services teams. He previously worked with Guardian Masterclasses on curating and delivering new course strands, including developing and teaching their B2B data visualisation courses. He oversaw the iPad edition launches of Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair and Vogue in the UK, and has worked with Condé Nast International as product owner on a bespoke digital asset management system for their 11 global markets.
 Testimonial “I was familiar with Alan’s work as a Guardian Masterclass instructor on data visualisation and digital journalism, which made it easy for me to recommend him for onsite training at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. We had a large group of people interested in honing their abilities to depict their research and stories in engaging ways. Alan’s course provided great insight about common communication pitfalls and how to avoid them, how to become better communicators by understanding the audience diversity, and it showcased some great online tools for creating infographics. This should be mandatory training for all students, academics, report writers and those involved with conveying research to the media as it will help increase the clarity and accessibility of our own research stories.”
 Dr Lee Haines | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

This very practical workshop has a simple objective: to help you prepare, design and deliver memorable and high-quality presentations. This programme will help you: Use a proven, structured tool-kit when designing and developing presentations Benefit from short cuts and best practice when designing and using Powerpoint presentations Select the right information, examples, exercises and activities - and use them well Prepare and structure a presentation or session appropriate to the audience, and to best achieve your objectives Maintain audience or group interest Develop and practise presentation skills to improve your voice tone, speech power and body language Use practical methods to control nerves and anxiety - develop higher levels of confidence and credibility Command a room, hold attention and create a high impact 1 Introduction Personal objectives Key messages and learning objectives of the workshop 2 Presentation skills What does good look like? Exercise: Characteristics of high/low impact presentations Presenting yourself as a 'winner' The energy / attitude model Exercise: Being a winner 3 Preparation skills - eight steps to preparing a great presentation, plus Powerpoint tips •The magic circle• How to 'assume the role' when presenting• The eight steps• Step 1 - develop your objectives- The five questions that you must answer before preparing your presentation- Defining your objectives and outcomes- Creating a first draft- Step 1 exercise• Step 2 - analyse your audience- Doing your homework: audience, event, venue- Developing a pre-event check-list- Methods and means for researching your audience- Step 2 exercise• Steps 3 and 4 - structure the main body of your presentation and state the main ideas- Ways to structure your presentation for maximum impact- Balancing and managing content and topics- Organising your information: 6 options and methods- Your 'one main point' and creating a 30-second summary- Steps 3 and 4 exercises• Step 5 - decide on supporting information, using the toolkit- Making your case convincing: ways to support your claims- Selecting and using relevant and interesting examples- Quotes, case studies and printed material- Presenting statistics, tables and graphs- Ways of maintaining visual interest- Transitions and links, creating a 'golden thread'- Step 5 exercise: Creating compelling stories and anecdotes4• Step 6 - create an effective 'opening'- Claiming the stage and creating a good first impression- The three most powerful ways of opening a presentation- The five elements of a strong opening- Step 6 exercise: Participants work individually to prepare an opening, focusing onpersonal introduction, and then deliver to the group, with structured feedback• Step 7 - develop transitions- Step 7 exercise / examples• Step 8 - create an effective close- Signalling and sign-posting; the importance of, and how to do it effectively- Five ways to close a presentation successfully- Step 8 exercise / examples• Presentation design and Powerpoint- An interactive review of participants' own real-life past presentations and advanced tipsand techniques on using Powerpoint effectively 4 Facilitation skills The three main types of group activity - triads, teams and main group How to select the right activity, define the objectives, set it up and run the debrief Using energisers - with examples Exercise: Dealing with 'difficult' behaviours Exercise: Working in triads, design and deliver 5 Tips and tricks: presentation and facilitation 10 reasons why facilitation fails Five golden rules for success Defining the session goals and the facilitation plan Open and closed questions - why and when to use Using a 'car park' to manage unresolved issues Using AV aids - tips and tricks Exercises: Including participants working in pairs to prepare a short section form of one of their own presentations 6 Putting it all together Summary of key learning points Action plan

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours Apple?s Keynote is the equivalent of Microsoft?s PowerPoint. With it?s powerful set of tools and effects, Keynote makes it easy to create stunning presentations. In this one-day class you will learn how to design and customize slides, add media and music, animate text and images, record voice over narration and the best tips and tricks for presenting the final presentation. Course covers working with a Mac, iPhone and/or iPad and demonstrates how to collaborate in real time with other users Creating a Presentation Opening Keynote Choosing a Theme and Slide Size Selecting a Master Slide Outlining a Presentation Using the Inspector Working with the Format Bar Pasting Text into an Outline Formatting Text Customizing a Slide Layout Copying Styles Between Slides Fixing Spelling Errors Working in Outline View Reordering Slides Creating Object Effects Dragging Files to Create New Slides Using the Light Table Creating a Custom Theme Creating an Empty Theme Creating Backgrounds and Formatting Text Creating a Title Slide Creating a Master Slide Saving and Sharing Themes Applying a Custom Theme Dragging Files to Create New Slides Using the Light Table Working with Tables and Charts Tables and Charts Working with Tables and Charts Chart and Table options Understanding Axis and Series 2D and 3D Charts Animating Tables and Charts Adding content from Microsoft Office or PDF Files Adding Media to Your Presentation Adding Photos and Graphics Enhancing Photos in Keynote Customizing Photo or Graphic Layouts Making Part of a Photo or Graphic Transparent Masking Photos and Shapes Instant Alpha Adding Hyperlinks and Navigation Adding a Chart or Table Adding Audio or Soundtrack Adding a Global Transition Adding Video and Animation Creating Builds to Reveal Text Creating a Sequence Build to Reveal a Table Creating a Smart Build Creating Custom Animation Animating Charts Animating Your Presentation Previewing the Presentation 2D and 3D Transitions Between Slides Creating Object Effects Running and Pausing your Presentation Animating a Title Slide Adding HyperLinks to your Presentation Using Magic Move Recording a Narrated, Self Playing Presentation Rehearsing and Delivering Your Presentation Reviewing your Presentation Adding Comments to your Presentation Adding and Printing Presenter Notes Rehearsing your Presentation Creating a Self-running Slideshow Troubleshooting your Presentation Indexing with Spotlight Importing from PowerPoint Animating a Title Slide Cleaning Up a Presentation Enhancing a Presentation Using an iOS Device as a Remote Control - Sharing Your Presentation Printing handouts Export for Email Exporting to PDFs Exporting to PowerPoint Exporting to Quicktime Sending to YouTube or the web Exporting Export For Email, PDFs Uploading to iCloud or Moving between Computer and iCloud Exporting to PowerPoint Exporting to QuickTime Sending to YouTube Troubleshooting & Cleaning Up Your PresentationTips and Tricks Working with Keynote on an iOS mobile device Additional course details: Nexus Humans Apple Keynote training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Apple Keynote course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Experimental knitting workshop, combining neon yarns with simple geometric designs to create a bold statement!

Experimental knitting workshop using free knitting techniques to explore colour, and dyeing your own yarns using Procion MX dyes.