stand-out presentation preparation skills for PAs
 

course overview

Your assistant/administrator can help with your filing and managing your diary and so why not your presentations? You don’t always have the time to make them look as good as you could or include everything you want to.

But if you knew you had someone you could trust to turn your scribbled notes or long report into master presentations, imagine how much more productive you could be and how much time you would now have available to spend on gathering content and ensuring a top-class delivery.

To assist your administrator to improve your productivity and help you deliver a truly professional presentation, BizTech is offering a course on “Stand-out Presentation Preparation skills for PAs”.
 

THE WHOLE POINT OF PRESENTATIONS:

• Making sense of the content
  
• Getting clarity on the purpose of presentations
  
• Understanding what makes the target audience tick
  
• How to turn paragraphs of text into punchy bullet points
  
• Paraphrasing, précis, punctuation and proof-reading
  
• Using headlines, quotes and conclusions for maximum impact
  
• Tips for getting the message across

• A professional design does not need to be boring
  
• Corporate consistency: The purpose and advantages of templates and masters
  
• ‘Just right’ versus ‘Over-the-top’
  
• Less is more: Managing layout, spacing and density
  
• Choosing the right fonts for utmost readability and emphasis
  
• Choosing graphic elements and illustrations wisely
  
• Colour usage to stimulate the response you want
  
• Deciding when to use animation and sound effects most effectively

• Clarifying expectations and objectives
  
• Getting input & feedback from your manager
  
• Gaining insight into your manager’s personal presentation style
  
• Pointers, projectors, plug points and printing: managing presentation logistics

who should attend

• Personal Assistants and secretaries who regularly have to prepare presentations as part of their normal job requirements

• Marketing and Communications assistants

• Office administrators and those staff entrusted with creating presentations

• Sales Assistants and project administrators responsible for producing their department’s presentations

• Anyone responsible for producing presentations

outcomes

After attending this course, you should be able to:

• Produce professional presentations of a consistently high standard from a variety of source material
• Understand and clarify your manager’s requirements to ensure an efficient production process, and greatly reduce the need for reworking
• Have a much better comprehension about what factors feature in excellent presentations, and how to impress and influence an audience
• Feel that you have expanded your own knowledge and level of expertise and can add even more value to your company and advance your own career

take home tools

Training Manual & CD

All delegates receive one month of telephonic support relating to course content

general

PROVISION OF THE COURSE BY BIZTECH INCLUDES:

• Dynamic and knowledgeable facilitators

• Training File and a CD

• Certificate of Attendance

• Quality folder, notepad and pen

the venue

bbbee compliance

BizTech is BBBEE level 1 compliant. This means that we are a 135% contributor and companies investing money in training their staff through BizTech can also improve their own BBBEE scorecard. Not only does it offer an opportunity to improve your company's Skills Development BBBEE category, but you can also improve your BBBEE Preferential Procurement category. In each case your company will benefit 135% of the spend made.