PSU MGT-210: Developing and Delivering Business Presentations

Good content is strong in both style and substance. Three people at the same company are doing presentations on sales forecasting. Which example seems to balance these the best?

Josette's presentation in which she has thought about what data her audience really needs and what kinds of useful recommendations she can make. The slides use color to keep the audience on track, and there is a good balance of words and images, all of which are relevant to the presentation

Ned's company, Hugecorp, has a private YouTube channel that contains a library of training videos. He has a list on his desktop of the URLs for all the videos. What's the most efficient way to include a video called "Basic Customer Service" in his presentation?

NOT: click on the Insert dropdown menu, choose Video, type "hugecorp basic customer service" into the search bar, click on the video he wants and hit the Select button

Petra has chosen the New Blank Presentation option in the presentation gallery. She wants to add her presentation title. Which of these should she do?

NOT: go to the Layout menu and choose Title Slide

Which of these is NOT a way to add a new slide to your presentation?

NOT: insert tab

Milo's boss, Jim, gives him a lot of creative freedom except in one area: Jim strongly prefers sans serif fonts like Ariel and Helvetica. Milo is looking for a cool theme for a new presentation he has to get started on right away. In order to keep Jim happy and get his presentation rolling, he should ________.

NOT: limit his choices to themes that come with a sans serif font

The phrase "death by PowerPoint" refers to which idea?

NOT: presenters spend too much time creating their slides in PowerPoint and don't allow enough time to practice presenting, so they "die" up in front of their audience

To create a presentation in Google Slides, you need ________.

a Google login for Gmail, Calendar, or Drive

When it comes to representing data in a presentation, which if these is the best guiding principle?

a compelling infographic can really make the data come alive; do some online research to find examples that might be adaptable to your data

Adding a video that's stored on your desktop is about the same as ________ in terms of how difficult it is to do.

adding a photo from your desktop

An alternate option for adding a text box is which of these?

choosing Text Box from the Insert dropdown menu

Enzo was working on his presentation with the Themes menu open. He accidentally clicked on an all-black theme, and all of his text seemed to disappear. After an appropriate moment of panic, Enzo's best option is to ________.

click Ctrl+Z and his previous theme will be restored and he'll be able to see his text

To title your presentation in Google Slides, you should ________.

click on Untitled Presentation in the top left corner and then type in the title you want

Jana has several photos of possible store locations that she wants to show in her presentation. She thought it would look good to have a framed text box with the location information in it overlapping the edge of each photo. The problem is she put the text boxes in first, and now the photo is on top instead of the text box. What's the easiest fix?

click on each of the text boxes and then choose Bring Forward from the Arrange menu

Rachel found a really good video on YouTube called "Charlie Closes the Sale." She wants to include the video in her weekly meeting Google Slides presentation. What should she do?

click on the Insert dropdown menu, choose Video, and then type "Charlie Closes the Sale" into the search bar. She can then click on the video she wants and hit the Select button. The video is now in her presentation

Susannah has a complicated bar chart on one of her slides. She decides it would be a good idea to add a couple of bullet points to the slide to explain the chart. Which of these should she do?

click on the Insert menu and then choose Text Box

To center an image in the slide you're creating you need to ________.

click on the object, click on the Arrange pulldown menu, and click Center

Brendan has a bunch of very cool images on one slide that really convey the energy of a recent employee event. However, right now, the slide is kind of a mess, and he needs to clean it up. Which of these is the most efficient solution?

click the Arrange menu in PowerPoint and see what can be done using those commands to tidy up the images

Beck wants to add a picture of his sales team to the end of his quarterly presentation. The photo is in a folder on his desk called Store Pics. What are the steps to get the photo into his presentation quickly and easily?

click the Insert tab; click on Picture; find the Store Pics folder and choose the photo he wants; click the Insert button

Stephanie is preparing a presentation on new marketing ideas for a timeshare company that has properties near a coral reef. As she's editing her presentation, she reads the slogan idea, "Experience a childish sense of wonder!" Stephanie changes the word "childish" to "childlike" because the words are quite opposite in ________.

connotation

Broadly, the three key elements of a presentation are ________.

content, organization, and delivery

Jaime wants to reorder a few of the slides in his presentation, he should ________.

drag and drop the slides into the right order in the thumbnail pane

Maureen works in sales research, and she's used to writing lean and efficient reports. She has to give a presentation on data trends for the last fiscal year. As she's editing her presentation, which of these three is the WORST idea to incorporate?

making sure the presentation is as lean and efficient as her reports by removing any repetition

If you click on the Text Box button in Google slides, you will see a ____ symbol appear on your slide. To create a text box, simply ______

not: Capital T Symbol, begin typing and a box will appear around your words

The start of your presentation should focus on which of these?

not: a gentle, inoffensive joke to break the ice and help your audience to like you

Jasmine's company uses PowerPoint for everything, and she feels like she's seen the same standard themes a zillion times. She wants her next presentation to really stand out from the crowd. The best way to do this is which of these?

not: find a theme she likes and add animations to each slide

What is different about using PowerPoint online vs. using PowerPoint on your hard drive?

not: other people can access the file in PowerPoint online

Which of the following is true about deleting slides in Google Slides?

not: slides in Google Slides are never permanently deleted, just hidden from view

If you are doing a presentation in which you need to persuade your audience of something, you can use which of these models for the middle / body of your presentation?

not: the 10/20/30 model

When tailoring a presentation to your audience, a key question to answer for yourself is which of these?

not: what's going to make them ask the most questions?

With regard to presentations, the working definition of "purpose" is which of these?

objective or intended outcome of the presentation

Suzanne has painstakingly arranged a series of overlapping images to create a sort of prototype of a window display. She wants to have the layered files as a single image so she can resize it and move it around without messing up her careful arrangement. What should she do

select all the individual objects in the image and then click on the Arrange pulldown menu and choose Group

Aryana is working on a pamphlet that might eventually contribute to an ad campaign. She wants to make sure her photos are of the highest quality. Which word should she add to her search terms?

stock

Jadon works for a specialty computer hardware company. His boss, Will, is a computer engineer with not a lot of typical business experience, but he's willing to learn. Jadon has finished his presentation and shows his draft to Will. Jadon will have 20 minutes to present, and he's made 9 slides that he believes address his purpose well. When he gets notes back from Will, one of them is "you could get all of this on four slides for greater efficiency." What's Jadon's best response?

to explain the 10/20/30 rule to Will and maybe find a YouTube video or article to back himself up

Which of these is true in PowerPoint?

you can add images from your desktop or from Bing or OneDrive with just a few clicks