Beginners Guide To Business Presentations And Powerpoint

"I always thought I understood PowerPoint but this course has given me more light and understanding. I am definitely ready to create my own slides and presents." - Malesela M.

"Peter certainly practises what he preaches! The live examples and practical demonstrations are brilliant and establish Peter's credibility for teaching the course. The material is targeted and relevant for giving an effective presentation, with no unnecessary detail. I love Peter's humour and honest no-nonsense approach to coping with what will go wrong." - Janet A.

"Having to know the different types of presentations, when and how to use them and the purpose of using and knowing these different forms of presentations. How to set up good presentation slides and which content to include on those slides and also how to set up a powerful virtual and physical presentation that will grab your audience attention and also how to use the different editing format that will help you make a killer power point presentation." - Nosipho Khumalo

"This is the best course that shows you how to do quality presentations which is exactly what I needed to know, absolutely valuable and helpful for my personal growth." - Josephine Mahlangu

"Excellent thus far! Thank you Peter, once again your lesson and course have given me so much knowledge and understanding about this topic. Really enjoyed" - Werner van Wyk

In this course I will teach you how to prepare and present powerful business presentations using Powerpoint. The course includes techniques for presenting online so that you still maximise the impact of your presentation if everyone is working from home. I've presented to thousands of people in all kinds of settings during my 20 year career which includes 10 years as a management consultant and 10 years in leadership roles at large financial institutions. Your career success will depend on how well you can communicate and delivering presentations is a crucial method of communication in the workplace. Learn these skills today to make you a more powerful PowerPoint presenter for business.

I will teach you about the following

• Different presentation settings; conferences, executive meetings, small team meetings

• Reasons for presentations; status updates, executive reviews, approvals, business cases, projects

• Understand why Powerpoint is banned at Amazon and how you can avoid abusing Powerpoint

• How agendas are set and presentations are compiled and distributed before a meeting

• How to combine text, graphics, data, charts and other visual material in aesthetic slides

• Using Powerpoint from scratch and the techniques of creating your first basic slide

• Why Mark Twain was thinking about Powerpoint when he said "I was going to write you a short letter but I didn't have time, so I wrote you a long letter"

• How to avoid cluttering a slide with too much detail and how to keep the number of slides down

• The importance of an executive summary and how this helps you deliver a better presentation

• How pictures can easily be misinterpreted and why an unambiguous narrative is critical

• Why you shouldn't repeat words on a slide and what a title and sub-title should achieve

• The "so-what" box and how you must incorporate this element on your most important slides

• How virtual meetings allow you to add a bit more detail onto slides

• Different views in Powerpoint as well as adding shapes, text, doing alignment and keyboard shortcuts

• Drawing tools, tables, charts, smart art, borders, fill, outline, grid and guides

• Transitions and animations and why you should avoid using them in business presentations

• Why you shouldn't use gradients, mix pictures and text or use curly fonts that are too small

• How to use all the collaboration features of online meeting tools while you are presenting

• Why you shouldn't ask people if they can see your slides or hear you when you start presenting

• Presentations in a physical setting and the importance of understanding the room beforehand

• How to deal with people who are busy on their phones or laptops while you are presenting

• Why you should tell people what you are going to tell them before you actually tell them

• Why it doesn't matter if you don't actually present your slides and why that's sometimes important

You can become a powerful powerpoint presenter by following the lessons in this course, locking in the learnings with the worksheets and applying what you have learnt in your next presentation.