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Create Better Business Presentations
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Create Better Business Presentations

Elevate your PowerPoint skills and create visually compelling, engaging, business slides
Created byAlan Lomer
Last updated 4/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to produce clear, compelling business presentations.
  • Improve your PowerPoint skills by focusing on commonly used business slides.
  • Create effective and professional presentations, specifically tailored for business settings.
  • Best practices for visualizing business data, such as sales reports, market research, or financials.
  • How to use professional design elements like consistent fonts, colours, and layouts to make slides visually appealing.
  • Master advanced features like animations, transitions, slide masters, and templates.
  • How to present business proposals, project updates, or sales pitches with confidence.
  • How Slide Masters can make all your layouts look consistent and professional.
  • Communicate key achievements and progress points of your company using a timeline.
  • Create maps to show regional office locations, customer markets, or supply lines.
  • Visually display key information and metrics covering various aspects of a business or project in adata dashboard.
  • How to separate different parts of the presentation, helping the audience understand the progression of topics.
  • Create visually appealing SWOT analysis, sales funnels, Gantt charts and layer diagrams.

Course content

1 section21 lectures3h 5m total length
  • Slide Master7:25

    For all business presentations and particularly pitch decks it is really important the every slide looks clear, clean and professional so the layouts must be consistent. The Slide Master controls the overall design and layout of your presentation by allowing you to set universal styles, placeholders, and formatting that apply across all slides.

  • Testimonials10:03

    It's often a good idea to use third party praise to build trust, credibility and support your position in order to enhance your reputation, attract new customers, and ultimately drive more sales.

  • Introduce Your Team8:31

    This slide introduces your core team members and their expertise. We are aiming for professional & consistent style of headshots and in the text you should highlight any relevant industry experience or notable achievements.

  • Pricing Tiers6:47

    This is a slide that can be used to explain your business model or pricing structure or choice of service tiers.

  • Timeline10:00

    Here is a layout which helps communicate key achievements and progress points of your company. It's a great way to effectively communicate the company’s journey, achievements, and future potential to various audiences.

  • Company Values6:38

    Here we divide our information up into easily understand, digestible sections of similar sizes and then add an icon or graphic to add impact. It could be company values, product features, a target market pain points slide or your solution or unique value proposition.

  • Feature Comparison Table10:18

    Here is a slide to identify direct and indirect competitors where we can highlight competitive advantages and key differentiators. Tables are a useful tool for presenting text information and numerical data and have a lot of customization options.

  • Key Data Points8:57

    Key data point slides are essential components of presentations, often used to highlight critical information, statistics, and metrics. They can be used to emphasize important information, simplify complex data or highlight achievements.

  • Market Opportunity6:28

    This slide layout is also called a TAM, SAM, SOM slide and is commonly used in business presentations, particularly pitch decks for companies seeking investment. It shows that you understand your market size at different levels, helping investors and stakeholders gauge potential revenue and growth.

  • Product Features7:43

    Here is a flexible layout to show a high-level overview of your product/service. Your audience may not share your level of expertise so keep things simple and precise and explain key features and functionalities.

  • Geographical Data9:02

    You can easily create a map directly in PowerPoint using the integrated world map chart type. Incorporating maps into a business presentation makes geographical data more accessible and easy to understand and also enhances the overall impact.

  • Sales Funnel9:41

    Here is a visual representation used in many presentations to illustrate the journey a potential customer goes through from the initial awareness of a product or service to the final purchase. It breaks down the sales process into distinct stages, helping businesses understand and optimize how they attract, engage, and convert leads.

  • Process Diagram7:39

    This structure provides a clear, concise overview of a generic business process, making it easy for the audience to follow.

  • Financial Revenue7:16

    Creating effective financial revenue slides for a pitch deck is crucial for impressing potential investors or stakeholders. It can be equally important when reviewing the state of your company internally to show geographical or historical tends.

  • SWOT Analysis6:40

    A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool used to identify factors that can impact the success of a project or business. It helps you identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and is used for strategic planning and to stay ahead of market trends.

  • Gantt Charts14:25

    A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that represents a project schedule. It shows the start and finish dates of the various elements of a project. Gantt charts are particularly useful for planning and tracking project timelines, managing resources, and ensuring that all tasks are completed on time.

  • Layer Diagram7:07

    Layer diagrams can be used to illustrate hierarchies, processes, or systems, in a visually appealing way. They help take complex information and make it more organized and digestible.

  • Performance Dashboard14:31

    A data dashboard is a visual display of key information and metrics covering various aspects of a business or project. As it typically collects data from different sources and presents it in an easy-to-read format, it is important to take the raw data and convert it all into a consistent, clear format.

  • Title Slide8:06

    The first slide that every business presentation starts with is a title slide. Title slides should be eye-catching and memorable and can set the tone for the rest of the deck.

  • Agenda14:45

    Using an agenda slide at the beginning of a presentation ensures a more organized, engaging, and effective communication process. It gives the audience a clear overview of what will be covered and can help the presenter stay on track and ensures that they cover all the key points.

  • Section Headers3:52

    In longer business presentations using section header slides can be beneficial. They separate different parts of the presentation, helping the audience understand the progression of topics.

Requirements

  • Microsoft 365 recommended or PowerPoint 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019

Description

In today’s fast-paced business world, delivering clear, compelling presentations is essential.

My PowerPoint slides for business professionals course covers 20 of the most commonly used business slides.

I will l take you through these step by step, building the examples shown, so you will end up with the knowledge and skills to create your own professional and engaging slides.

Whether you're working with data-heavy reports, project updates, financial summaries, or executive briefings, this course will help you turn standard slides into visually impactful, persuasive presentations.

This course is designed for business professionals looking to elevate their PowerPoint skills.

All the PowerPoint slides shown in this course are available for you to download and use as you wish.


Here's a run-through of what we will be covering:

  • Slide Masters that can make all your layouts look consistent and professional

  • Testimonial slides that can build trust, credibility and support your position

  • A slide that introduces your core team members and their expertise

  • Business models or pricing structure or choice of service tiers

  • A layout which helps communicate key achievements and progress points of your company

  • A flexible layout with icons that could show company values, product features, your solution or unique value proposition

  • A table to identify competitors and highlight competitive advantages and key differentiators

  • A Key data point slide to highlight critical information, statistics, and metrics

  • Market opportunity slides that can help investors and stakeholders gauge potential revenue and growth

  • A high-level overview of your product/service

  • Geographical data to show regional office locations, customer markets, or supply lines

  • A visual representation of a sales funnel to show how you attract, engage, and convert leads

  • Financial revenue to impress investors or stakeholders

  • A clear, concise overview of a business process, making it easy for the audience to follow

  • A SWOT analysis slide to identify factors that can impact the success of a project or business

  • A Gantt chart for planning project timelines and managing resources

  • A layer diagram to illustrate hierarchies, processes, or systems, in a visually appealing way

  • A data dashboard which is a visual display of key information and metrics covering various aspects of a business or project

  • An eye-catching and memorable title slide

  • An agenda slide to ensure a more organized, engaging, and effective communication process

  • Section headers to separate different parts of the presentation, helping the audience understand the progression of topics

By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to deliver presentations that not only look professional but also captivate and persuade your audience.


Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn how to create your own professional and engaging slides.
  • Anyone who wants to clear step by step instructions on how to create many of most commonly used business slide layouts.
  • Anyone who wants to needs to create data-heavy reports, project updates, financial summaries, or executive briefings, or pitch decks.
  • Anyone who wants to download and use all the PowerPoint layout files shown in this course.
  • Anyone who wants to elevate their PowerPoint skills and create visually compelling layouts.