New Master business presentations

Do you often use PowerPoint to create presentations in your work as a manager or expert, but think that you can only create really beautiful, engaging slides with templates created by designers?

Are you familiar with PowerPoint's capabilities, from formatting shapes and diagrams to handling animations, but don't really have a good track record when it comes to creating presentations?

If so, this training is for you: we'll prove together through practical examples that you don't have to be a designer to create stylish and engaging presentations; and we'll solve business case studies that will help you become a black belt in the eyes of your colleagues, starting tomorrow.

The aim of our course is to introduce participants with a confident PowerPoint technical foundation to the art of business presentation making, introducing the main types of business presentations and the types of audiences you need to structure your presentation accordingly to achieve maximum success.

Introduction to presentation making - interactive

• The first steps in making a presentation: setting objectives and assessing needs
• For what occasions do we make a presentation?
• Specificities of presentations in terms of occasion, format and audience
• Principles for making a presentation

Structure of a business presentation

• What are the components of a clear business presentation?
• How can we influence the audience's attention with our presentation?
• Good and bad practices, presentation solutions in terms of structure

Introduction to presentations - practical implementations:

• How to open a presentation - the content of the perfect opening screen
• Introduction slide: how to introduce yourself / your team?
• What to look for when presenting the table of contents - the agenda slide
• How can we make our presentation easy to follow for the target audience?

Content of the presentation: most common slide types

• Timeline chart: visualise timeline information in your presentation
• Comparison slide: a multidimensional comparison of two or more data
• Flowchart in presentation: how can we display complex processes in a clear way in our presentation?
• Representingarchitecture: complex system connections, opaque circuit diagrams in ppt
• KPI dashboard: clear visualisation of multiple numerical data
• Usetables in a stylish way
• Project starter slide: how to build a cluttered slide with multiple data
• Status slide: we look at it every week and update it, so it's important to be concise
• Presentation ofobjectives and summaries: show key data for the company
• Includemaps in your presentation

Presentation closing slides:

• Next steps: how do we present them list-free?
• Summarising: how can the audience remember the content of our presentation?
• Acknowledgements, call to action: how to keep your audience motivated at the end of your presentation?

Other efficiency and style tips: how to personalise your presentation

• Useicons in your presentation
• Images and sample images: when and how to use them?
• Animations: not just retro '90s slides
• Master slide: what is a good master slide, how to use it effectively?

Completion of the course requires a general level of PowerPoint user skills.