Clarity

We are on a mission to make the business world a better place by providing the skills to design clear, concise and compelling presentations and other communications. 

We have all been at the receiving end of Death by PowerPoint - oceans of bullet points, never ending slides, unclear 'so what?' and irrelevant clip art or diagrams. PowerPoint presentations are one of the most complained about aspects of business and yet the quality doesn't seem to get any better. We think that a major part of the problem lies in an excessive focus on PowerPoint rather than on the thinking that should occur before the tool is touched. In this one day training course we will provide the knowledge and skills to significantly increase focus and quality, dramatically reduce slide count and save your precious time. 
"Really useful content and easy to apply in practice. Very knowledgeable and engaging trainer. The course was interactive, structured and fun. I learned a lot."
​Business Development Manager,  Aerospace
Our course consists of three modules:
  1. Audience. We introduce simple tools to help think through the audience's needs and your objectives.
  2. Narrative. This is the core content of the workshop and covers logic, structure and storytelling principles.  The tools introduced enable brevity, clarity and audience engagement. 
  3. Expression. We cover visuals (diagrams and graphs), converting thinking to PowerPoint and also touch on tools to enable the retention of ideas such as metaphors and the rule of 3's.
The course is highly interactive, using a mixture of individual and group exercises, mini cases and application to attendee situations. The course concludes by applying the process to a presentation of your choice (or we can provide a topic). The focus of the course is on designing PowerPoint presentations , but many of the principles are applicable to other verbal, visual or written communication forms including Prezi.
​NOTE - this is not a training course on using PowerPoint software. It is about the thinking that should occur before PowerPoint is touched. As well as the core training course we also offer additional elements and formats:
  1. Coaching. In our experience a training course (no matter how good) is not enough to make you highly proficient. We offer Skype and phone coaching sessions as a follow up. These can be arranged outside of normal office hours if required.
  2. Enhanced course. We can extend the content in this course by adding an additional day which covers skills in delivering presentations and the design and delivery of a more involved case presentation. Through one of our partner organisations we can also provide training on the use of the PowerPoint tool.
  3. To make it easier to absorb the content and to fit in with schedules we can split the course into two, four hour modules run-on separate days. We can also run short, lunch and learn or espresso  sessions.
​For more information on our Clarity offer, please contact us.