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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

261: Powering Up Your PowerPoint with Heather and Alan Ackmann

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

PowerPoint gurus Heather and Alan Ackmann share perspectives on how to take full advantage of PowerPoint for more impactful presentations.


You’ll Learn:

  1. When, why and how you should PowerPoint – and when you shouldn’t
  2. The three fundamental factors to consider when designing your slides
  3. When to use emotionally-driven graphics


About Heather & Alan

Alan Ackmann is the professional writing for business coordinator in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse department at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. His teaching specialties include professional and technical writing and the rhetoric of slideware and presentations. He has led professional development seminars for teachers on the local, state, and national level. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, as well as jogging, reading, and singing (though not always in that order).

Heather Ackmann is an author, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and Microsoft MVP. Since 2006, she has designed, authored, and narrated over 300 hours of video-based training for a variety of public and private entities. In 2016, she cofounded AHA Learning Solutions to provide high-quality learning materials to educational institutions and businesses nationally. She is an active member of the presentation community and a proud member of the Presentation Guild. You may find her sharing advice and Microsoft Office news on Twitter: @heatherackmann.

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McChitis.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 261 with Heather and

0:25.9

Alan Ackman. We have got a husband wife duo who are PowerPoint Maistros so we'll be going deep on their perspectives to make

0:36.2

your experiences with this software so much better so you'll learn one when why and

0:40.5

how you should use PowerPoint and when you shouldn't.

0:43.6

Two, the three fundamental factors to consider

0:46.1

when designing your slides, and three,

0:48.8

when to use emotionally driven graphics.

0:51.5

So if you'd like to check out the show notes, the transcript or the

0:53.6

links to items that we've referenced here, you'll find that on over at awesome at

0:56.7

your job.com slash f261. And while you're at awesome at your job

1:00.8

come I encourage you to check out some of our helpful stuff.

1:04.2

One thing I think is pretty helpful is just the magnifying glass right up there in the

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navigation bar. If you click it you can search the fully transcribe text of 261 and counting conversations.

1:16.2

So if there is an issue you are facing,

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take a look, see what you find there.

1:21.8

And if you don't find anything, hey let me know.

1:24.0

Maybe we should give another episode on that very topic. Email Pete at awesome at your job.

1:28.0

com. So we got dual intros here.

1:31.0

Ellen Ackman is the professional Writing for Business Coordinator in the

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