Develop new skills across your entire team with Group Training

We can deliver any of our professional development and computer software training courses in-house, at your venue, and the content can be customised to your needs based on your individual and organisational requirements.

Our trainers can travel throughout Australia and Asia Pacific.  Whether it is regional or remote locations we can arrange courses at dates and times that suits your operational needs. In-house training is a cost-effective option that offers the convenience of learning from qualified experts in the comfort of your workplace.

How do I hide Navigation Buttons in Slideshow View?

Have you ever wondered if you could remove the navigation buttons such as the arrows (Previous/Next slides, Pen and Menu etc.) that appear at the bottom of your slides during a PowerPoint Presentation?  For the most part they won't have any impact if you are not using them.  However, if you have a presenter who accidentally clicks one of the buttons, it may be disastrous for them - becoming lost in the unwanted view or feature.

Disable the Popup Toolbar

1.  Choose File > Options to display the PowerPoint Options dialog box.
2.  Click Advanced on the left sidebar.
3.  Drag the scrollbar down to about the middle of the dialog box to see the Slide Show settings.
4.  Clear the checkbox beside Show popup toolbar which is enabled by default.
5.  Click OK.

Hide and Show using Keyboard Shortcuts

If you leave the Popup Toolbar enabled, you can also simply use keyboard shortcuts to hide and show the tools when you want.  After you start the Slide Show, press CTRL+H to hide the mouse cursor and the navigation buttons on the bottom left of the slide show window.  To restore the buttons - simply unhide using CTRL+U.  It is pretty simply to remember - Hide/Unhide.

Note: These keyboard shortcuts only work in Presentation/Slide Show mode - not Kiosk Mode.

Designing Effective PowerPoint Presentations

Setup for Success using Themes and Slide Masters

A Microsoft Office Theme is a key branding tool. A Theme allows you to store Fonts, your preferred or corporate colours and a set of graphical effects into a single file (*.thmx). A Theme file can reinforce your branding, provide consistency in the presentation of all documents. and of course, improves efficiency. With a custom Theme file, you can quickly and easily apply your brand identity to every document, presentation, and even spreadsheet by attaching a single file.  You are not limited to using one Theme - create them for different purposes and apply with a simple selection.  Let's take a look at the contents of a Theme and how you create one.  A Theme can be created in Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

In PowerPoint

Click the Design tab.
This tab contains Themes, Variants and Customize
Click on the bottom of the scroll bar on the right of Variants

Choose the option you wish to set

Colours:

Every Theme has a total of 60 colours.  This sounds like a lot, but there’s actually only 10 ‘main’ Theme Colours – the rest are shade variants of those 10 base colours.
To create your own Theme, select a colour set and click Customize Colors...

Fonts:
Themes consist of two fonts - one for Headings, Titles and Subtitles.  The second for the body text. You can save this collection of fonts with a name. To create a new font collection, customize an existing Font group with the desired fonts.  Custom font schemes will be placed at the top of the list in the Custom groups.

Effects:

 Inside of PowerPoint themes, you'll find layouts, which are custom slide designs. Most themes will include a selection of content layouts that you can use as a starting point for your own slide designs. You can leverage slide master PowerPoint 2022 designs with the help of layouts.

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Live Online Learning
Interactive Virtual Learning that Sticks

Our Cloudshare platform makes it easy to provide engaging, hands-on, remote software training in real-time with a live instructor.  Simple and intuitive for instructors and learners. We can replicate real-world software environment and classroom training on any browser.

	Rich learning environment includes Audio and video for easy communication. Participants can hear each others questions and discussion as if they were in the same room.
	No software or downloads required.  We provide a fully provisioned environment with the software required for the training session. Access is through a standard browser - Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox.
	Student see Instructor screen and can follow along in real time.
	Instructor sees each participant screen and can provide real time assistance.
	Instructor can monitor each student's performance and participation in real time with a live environment, and can provide timely assistance when needed.
	Each participant has their own training environment - no shared desktops - providing privacy and security.
	Instructor can share a student training environment with other students.  Real time collaboration between participants avoiding a sense of isolation.

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Emotional and Social Intelligence in Leadership

Think of a great leader.  What makes a great leader? 

You might think of someone who has the complete trust of their followers or staff; who listens to their team, is easy to talk to, and who always makes careful, informed decisions. You might picture someone who is calm and never lets their temper get out of control, no matter what problems they are facing.   These are qualities of someone with a high degree of emotional intelligence.  So why is emotional intelligence so important in workplace leadership.

Emotional intelligence or EI is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of the people around you. People with a high degree of emotional intelligence are conscious of their emotions, what those emotions mean, and how their emotions can affect other people.  For leaders, developing emotional intelligence is essential for success. After all, who is more likely to succeed – a leader who shouts at his team when under stress, or a leader who stays in control, calmly assesses the situation and relates to their team?

Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman, one of the world's leading experts on emotional and social intelligence, there are five key elements to emotional intelligence:

1. Self-awareness.
2. Self-management.
3. Empathy.
4. Social skills.

The more that you manage each of these areas, the higher your emotional intelligence. 

Self-awareness is a set of abilities which are invisible to others and yet essential for the other elements of emotional intelligence. When you are  self-aware, you always know how you feel, and you know how your emotions and your actions affect those around you. Being self-aware in a leadership role also means having a clear picture of your strengths and weaknesses and helps to act with humility.

If you don't know what is going on inside yourself, you will be very poor at managing others.  Self-management is about your ability to control your own emotions so they don't block your ability to think clearly, to create, to innovate, to stay fixed on the goal and drive to achieve.  Leaders who regulate themselves effectively rarely verbally attack others, make rushed or emotional decisions, stereotype people, or compromise their values. 

Empathy also requires good self-awareness.  Research and studies of the level of brain function that shows that people who are low in self-awareness are not able to attune to other people, are not able to read them and their feelings, and not able to relate to them.  Having empathy is critical to managing a successful team or organisation. Leaders with empathy have the ability to put themselves in someone else's situation. They help develop the people on their team, challenge others who are acting unfairly, give constructive feedback, and listen to those who need it.

The fourth element of emotional intelligence is Social skills.  This is about managing relationships.  Managing relationships is important for many leadership skills like persuasion, influence, communication, and teamwork.  Leaders who do well in the social skills element of emotional intelligence are great communicators. They handle bad news just as well as good news, and they are deft at eliciting team support and enthusiasm for new projects.

Combing your ability to manage yourself, your ability to read the other person and know what to do and what to say next, to be skillful interpersonally – and those three all build from self-awareness.

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