Cheating Death by PowerPoint®
Cheating Death by PowerPoint
Intensive Training
Stop boring your audiences and start influencing them!
People rely on PowerPoint presentations to close deals, influence stakeholders, and educate their clients. You can continue using PowerPoint the way you have been...or you can learn the secrets to Cheating Death by PowerPoint.
Intensive Training:
Cheating Death by PowerPoint can come to your place of business with a training plan customized just for you. Do you have a problem deck that needs to shine? Are you delivering a keynote speech to hundreds of people? Is your staff on board with creating PowerPoint that educates and persuades? A customized daylong Cheating Death by PowerPoint training session will improve the way you use PowerPoint in your business and includes:
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Cheating Death by PowerPoint Lecture
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Live redesign of your most troublesome deck
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Afternoon work session where participants work on their decks while I offer one-on-one feedback and instruction
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Follow-up report, calls, and/or assessments of participants' decks
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Customized PowerPoint template for your business, including detailed instructions for use
- Recognize and avoid common PowerPoint pitfalls
- Support your main speaking points with clean design
- Use photographs to communicate and to create emotional impact
- Create graphs with a designer look
- Learn the importance of color
- Discover how great storytelling is more effective than data dumps during your presentation.
- Learn how many bullet points are too many (it’s fewer than you think).
- Find out how your leave-behinds can reinforce your presentation long after it’s over.
- Does your deck fit your company’s brand? It should!
- Do you use a customized template consistently with every PowerPoint show you create?
- Did you know that with the proper animation and embedding, your PowerPoint show can look like a video?
Start Cheating Death by PowerPoint today! Contact Laura M. Foley Design at 978.820.1149 or by email to bring Cheating Death by PowerPoint to your company, school, convention, or networking group.
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Cheating Death by PowerPoint Workshop
This workshop can be tailored as a 60- or 90-minute session, depending on your needs. In this time, I teach you the basics of how to Cheat Death by PowerPoint and show some before-and-after comparisons to demonstrate how well the techniques work. This is a lecture, so it's not necessary for participants to have access to computers or laptops during the session.
Please contact Laura by email or call 978.820.1149 for information on scheduling and rates.
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Customized PowerPoint Training
If online tutorials or PowerPoint classes aren't addressing your specific needs, or if you learn better on-on-one, then you might get better results with a customized PowerPoint lesson. I can come to your office and teach you exactly what you need to know to Cheat Death by PowerPoint. Whether it’s a vexing problem you’re experiencing or you want to improve your PowerPoint game overall, I can help!
With a customized lesson plan tailored for your needs, you will be sure to gain skills you can use to improve your PowerPoint!
Please contact Laura by email or call 978.820.1149 for information on scheduling and rates.
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PowerPoint Overhaul
Is redesigning a PowerPoint deck worth it? Absolutely! But sometimes you just don't have the time. That's when you turn to Laura M. Foley Design for the PowerPoint Overhaul. This robust redesign package includes the following:
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Customized PowerPoint template, including your logo and a palette that matches your corporate identity
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Style guide
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Redesign of every slide in your deck, including copy editing, table and graph redesign, and photo sourcing
Please contact Laura by email or call 978.820.1149 for more information.
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PowerPoint Before and After
Check out these before-and-after comparisons to see how Laura has helped her clients to Cheat Death by PowerPoint:
Slideways, a manufacturer of plastic components
This is the main sales deck for Slideways, redesigned to match their new Web site.
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NTS, engineering services and compliance testing
This is the main sales deck for NTS, redesigned to match their new marketing collateral.
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Polaris Venture Partners, a venture capital firm
In their annual presentation, Polaris wanted to show the widespread use of their portfolio companies' technology.
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Town of Hubbardston, Massachusetts
The Hubbardston, MA, Finance Committee was presenting the argument for a Proposition 2½ override to replace an aging plow truck. After viewing the presentation, those attending the annual Town Meeting voted to add the two override ballot questions for the town's Special Election.
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Your instructor, Laura Foley, has been improving PowerPoint presentations since 1989 for organizations such as Atlas Venture, Kodiak Venture Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, and Tufts New England Medical Center.
As the principal of Laura M. Foley Design, she helps her clients communicate their messages with effective corporate branding and marketing materials.
