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
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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?