Creating an Impactful
Presentation
Tamara Passut, RN, MBA
Patient Safety Manager, Fayetteville NC
VA Medical Center
4/17/2015
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
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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”
click
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
Outline
Layout
and design
Contents
Notes
“FLARE”
Summary
Citations
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
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