The Report from the Community Services and Health Industries 2012 Environmental Scan is now available. This is the fifth annual report ‘committed to identifying issues, changes and workforce needs-projections’ for the sector.
The report is available from this website:
https://www.cshisc.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=883&Itemid=971
MF
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
TDN March meeting - Presentation
At the last Traning Directions Network meeting, we had Monica Lamelas who is CCWT Senior Learning and Development Project Manager who presented the topic: “Better Powerpoint presentations” and this is a brief summary of Monica's presentation and discussion.
What is wrong with Powerpoint presentations
• The tool has been blamed for the bad presentations we have all experienced
• It is possible to make it more inspirational
• The documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” of Alan Gore is a good example how powerpoint presentation can be a good support to a talking head and conveys a very emotional component
• What kind of presenter are you? Steve Jobs or Bill Gates? Steve Jobs used to use a clean or blank background for example. On the contrary Bill Gate tend to use a more crowded powerpoint presentations
• Presenters who “abuse” powerpoing tend to use it as a prompter, handouts or data dumps. This is not what powerpoint was designed to do.
• Powerpoint slides are not the presentation – the presenter is the presentation and the PPT slides are there to back up the presenter
• Participants need to focus on the presenter, not on the slides.
Let’s use it as best we can
• Before developing a powerpoint presentation, you usually think about: number of slides, colours and font size. What you should be focusing on is the story instead of the technicalities
• The presenter needs to keep to one clear message all the time. Think about the learner and how much information can the learner digest information - What does the learner need to take away?
• What is the subject, what matters to you?
Developing a Powerpoint presentation
• First step: step away from the computer to do your planning
• Second step: work out who is your audience?
• Third step: decide what role are you playing?
Think like a designer – like an artist
• Reduce the noise: use the billboard principles
• Use colours appropriately – get the right combination
• Be very aware of your font size – 54 or more is appropriate – the bigger the better
• Fonts: be aware that too many fonts can be distracting
• Use of wide space – very powerful
• Go easy on animations – use them very sparsely. One animation per presentation
• Avoid cheesy clipart – people prefer real photos – if you must use clipart, keep a consistent style
• Charts: are very powerful and a good visual interpretation for data and information
Slide Makeovers
• Use one picture or combine that picture with text
• Assist participants to make an emotional connection with your presentation
• Never leave any participant with a problem and without a solution – resources and links
• Guide participants to the right information
• Keep the key points in case we are not able to use images
• The visual component will carry the information more powerfully than words
• There are always three main documents: the presentation (PPT visual aid) to create the emotional impact, the presenter’s notes and the handouts.
What is wrong with Powerpoint presentations
• The tool has been blamed for the bad presentations we have all experienced
• It is possible to make it more inspirational
• The documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” of Alan Gore is a good example how powerpoint presentation can be a good support to a talking head and conveys a very emotional component
• What kind of presenter are you? Steve Jobs or Bill Gates? Steve Jobs used to use a clean or blank background for example. On the contrary Bill Gate tend to use a more crowded powerpoint presentations
• Presenters who “abuse” powerpoing tend to use it as a prompter, handouts or data dumps. This is not what powerpoint was designed to do.
• Powerpoint slides are not the presentation – the presenter is the presentation and the PPT slides are there to back up the presenter
• Participants need to focus on the presenter, not on the slides.
Let’s use it as best we can
• Before developing a powerpoint presentation, you usually think about: number of slides, colours and font size. What you should be focusing on is the story instead of the technicalities
• The presenter needs to keep to one clear message all the time. Think about the learner and how much information can the learner digest information - What does the learner need to take away?
• What is the subject, what matters to you?
Developing a Powerpoint presentation
• First step: step away from the computer to do your planning
• Second step: work out who is your audience?
• Third step: decide what role are you playing?
Think like a designer – like an artist
• Reduce the noise: use the billboard principles
• Use colours appropriately – get the right combination
• Be very aware of your font size – 54 or more is appropriate – the bigger the better
• Fonts: be aware that too many fonts can be distracting
• Use of wide space – very powerful
• Go easy on animations – use them very sparsely. One animation per presentation
• Avoid cheesy clipart – people prefer real photos – if you must use clipart, keep a consistent style
• Charts: are very powerful and a good visual interpretation for data and information
Slide Makeovers
• Use one picture or combine that picture with text
• Assist participants to make an emotional connection with your presentation
• Never leave any participant with a problem and without a solution – resources and links
• Guide participants to the right information
• Keep the key points in case we are not able to use images
• The visual component will carry the information more powerfully than words
• There are always three main documents: the presentation (PPT visual aid) to create the emotional impact, the presenter’s notes and the handouts.
Sydney Facilitators Network - April meeting
“Giving Voice to Values” with Sharon McGann | Monday April 16 at 5.30PM
Have you ever had a workshop participant, say “Yes, but ... I couldn’t say that back at work”?
Many people genuinely believe that if they voice their values at work it will be a “career limiting move”. That belief prevents people – facilitators included – from living our highest values at work.
In this session, Sharon McGann draws on the Giving Voice to Values curriculum* to explore how you can voice your values in the facilitation workspace, or other workplaces.
During the session you will be invited to discuss in small groups times in work situations when you decided not to voice your values and where you tried to voice your values even if you weren’t successful. You will have the opportunity to work confidentially to discuss and practice what you could say and do, which is in alignment with both your values and your personality.
*Giving Voice to Values is an action-oriented pedagogical approach for developing the skills, knowledge and commitment required to implement values-based leadership. Rather than the usual focus on ethical analysis, the GVV curriculum focuses on ethical implementation and asks the question: “What would I say and do if I were going to act on my values?”
About Sharon McGann
Sharon McGann is a facilitator and developer of leadership and management programs for the corporate sector and more recently the community sector. Sharon is passionate about sustainability and social justice and is using the Giving Voice to Values curriculum into development programs as well as developing Australian case studies. The GVV program was developed Mary Gentile, from Babson College in the USA with The Aspen Institute as founding partner, along with the Yale School of Management, and is offered worldwide to educators.
Venue:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Jones Street, Ultimo corner Thomas Street.
Room 5.580 Level 5, Building 10, Take the lift to level 5, cross the atrium footbridge, walk straight ahead to room 580.
Time
5.30 pm
Date
Monday 16th April
Have you ever had a workshop participant, say “Yes, but ... I couldn’t say that back at work”?
Many people genuinely believe that if they voice their values at work it will be a “career limiting move”. That belief prevents people – facilitators included – from living our highest values at work.
In this session, Sharon McGann draws on the Giving Voice to Values curriculum* to explore how you can voice your values in the facilitation workspace, or other workplaces.
During the session you will be invited to discuss in small groups times in work situations when you decided not to voice your values and where you tried to voice your values even if you weren’t successful. You will have the opportunity to work confidentially to discuss and practice what you could say and do, which is in alignment with both your values and your personality.
*Giving Voice to Values is an action-oriented pedagogical approach for developing the skills, knowledge and commitment required to implement values-based leadership. Rather than the usual focus on ethical analysis, the GVV curriculum focuses on ethical implementation and asks the question: “What would I say and do if I were going to act on my values?”
About Sharon McGann
Sharon McGann is a facilitator and developer of leadership and management programs for the corporate sector and more recently the community sector. Sharon is passionate about sustainability and social justice and is using the Giving Voice to Values curriculum into development programs as well as developing Australian case studies. The GVV program was developed Mary Gentile, from Babson College in the USA with The Aspen Institute as founding partner, along with the Yale School of Management, and is offered worldwide to educators.
Venue:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Jones Street, Ultimo corner Thomas Street.
Room 5.580 Level 5, Building 10, Take the lift to level 5, cross the atrium footbridge, walk straight ahead to room 580.
Time
5.30 pm
Date
Monday 16th April
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)