What you'll learn
- A critical eye for what makes a slide good or bad
- A habit of planning presentations using a storyboard
- The ability to write polished presentations, fast
- Techniques to present well and to engage your audience
- Pre-built, ready-to-use slide templates
Requirements
- PowerPoint installed on your PC or Mac
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office
Description
When you write PowerPoint presentations, do you
- Pretend it's a Word document in landscape?
- Stick objects on a page until the white space is filled up?
- Write a bunch of slides, then think about how they go together?
It's easy to get the basics in PowerPoint but hard to write compelling stories that your audience will find memorable and meaningful. Don't let insights you've discovered get lost in a maze of mediocre slides.
In this 90-minute primer you'll go from slide monkey to slide master. We'll take an accelerated 'learn-by-doing' approach: picking up where we left off in Use Excel Like a Pro. Fast., we'll design a PowerPoint template, write a storyboard and craft a polished presentation. Along the way, we'll unpack the principles of great slide writing and cover time-saving shortcuts. What makes this course different?
- It's practical. The instructor worked in management consulting at BCG for eight years. That's a lot of real-world experience to share
- It's fast; only 90 minutes. You'll have what you need in no time
- It uses the case-method pedagogy. By teaching in the context of an example, retention is far higher than a traditional approach
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Who this course is for:
- Students, professionals and entrepreneurs who regularly write PowerPoint presentations to communicate ideas, results or plans
Course content
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Instructor
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Kieran is the co-Chief Operating Officer of General Assembly (GA), the world leader in reskilling and upskilling. GA offers employer-defined, practitioner-taught training in fields like coding, data, design, marketing and product.
Prior to GA, he was a Principal at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he served clients, led undergraduate hiring and trained new consultants on topics including spreadsheet modeling, slide writing and presenting.
Originally from Australia, Kieran has called New York home since 2010.