Creating an Impactful Presentation

Tamara Passut, RN, MBAPatient Safety Manager, Fayetteville NC VA

Medical Center4/17/2015

Disclosure•The presenter nor those in a position to control content have no relevant financial disclosures to make. •There will not be discussion of any off-label, experimental, or investigational use of drugs or devices in this presentation•This program is not being supported by any commercial funding.

Objectives

1. Understand how to create a dynamic PowerPoint presentation

2. Identify key elements of a good presentation

3. Have hands-on practice building a presentation

4. Leave with an example template for future use

Outline

• Outline• Layout and design• Contents • Notes• “FLARE”• Summary• Citations

Creating a Layout and Design

• PowerPoint automatically gives each new page or “slide” a title and a body - Don’t like that? Great, neither do we!

• In the “home” tab, click on “layout” where you will see more options. - Don’t like that? Fine! Do whatever you like!

Creating a Layout and Design

• Fact: PowerPoint can be Boring!• Tip: Prevent that!• Click on the “design tab”

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Contents

Provide disclosure ACCME prohibits logos or brand names Hit your learning objectives Reference evidence-based guidelines/current

published research Involve your audience

Contents

Keep it Simple Use No more than 4 bullets per slide Slides are for trigger words, not your notes Pictures and graphs get your point across

better Don’t read all of the words on your slide There are too many bullets and words on this

page Help me to scale this page down to focus on

only the MOST important points

Your Notes

Keep your notes and resources in the “click to add notes” section at the bottom of this screen

You won’t read these, but your will program your brain while you write them

Keep focused and do not skip ahead This slide is currently boring and too busy with

words. Now, try and edit this slide to minimize the

amount of bullets and words on the screen Remember to keep everything on the page

related to your header at the top

FLARE Places to get “flare” How to bring it in How to move it around

FLARE

Animate your text Delay objects animation by click or timing

Summary

OutlineLayout and designContents Notes“FLARE”SummaryCitations

References Cite all your references

MLA Citation Examples. University of Maryland University College. 2015. Web. 13 Apr. 2015. http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/mla_examples.cfm

Questions?