You have 180 days from date of purchase to access and complete this course. There are no extensions.

We’ve all endured “Death by PowerPoint”: the boring, over-complicated, incomprehensible slide deck that makes even the best speakers look amateurish. While other presentation courses focus on aesthetics and speaking techniques, this pracademic course gets to the heart of the matter: your brain, how it learns, and what actually convinces others to think or do something differently. Gain loads of practical tips to amp up all your presentations.

This course was designed by an Organizational Neuroscientist and expert presenter!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

•  Learn the top errors that even experts at presentations unknowingly make
•  Deliver more persuasive presentations by applying neuroscience in a practical way
•  Quickly revise existing presentations to help brains (and your audience!) learn better
•  Use brain science to make your presentation more engaging
•  Create graphs, charts and flourishes with greater intention and stronger impact

CONTENT

• Attention: How to get & keep peoples focus
  o Bottom-up processing
  o Top-down processing
  o Salience
  o Noise - active & passive
  o Expectation

• Cognition & Learning: How to help people become informed
  o Primacy and recency
  o Working memory has multiple channels
  o Cognitive load
  o Engage all the senses, but particularly the visual sense (it’s a presentation, after all!)
  o Schemas over lists

• Putting it into action

WHO WILL BENEFIT

This course is suitable for intermediate or advanced users of presentation software. Not recommended for those new to giving presentations. Despite the course title, it is equally suitable whether you use PowerPoint, Keynote, PDFs, Google Slides, or an equivalent.

CPD HOURS

Members may require more time than the stated CPD hours to complete the course if they engage in the micro-activities suggested in each course.  If you do spend more time than the stated hours, you may input the incremental time spent directly in the CPD Reporting tool.  We suggest you keep your notes taken during those activities as back up documentation in the event you are selected for a verification audit of your CPD hours.

About FliP University 

On-Demand Courses by FliP University. What if online learning was even better than in-person? At FliP University, we’ve taken the best of in-person workshops and put it online. Our content is "pracademic" (that is practical + academic), whimsical, transformative, and thoroughly modern, at the forefront of organizational needs. It is based on research from cognitive neuroscience, creativity, social, organizational and positive psychology, learning theory, and clinical practice.