PowerPoint for Consulting and Business presentations

Identify the two elements of a quality slide: good visuals and good content that captivate the audience, using typography, infographics, icons, and color, with a clear title, subheading, and exhibit.

Compare slide quality by analyzing color, typography, alignment, and left-to-right/top-to-bottom flow across two slides to show how visuals and exhibits affect audience understanding.

Learn visual design fundamentals for PowerPoint, covering typography, images, infographics and icons, and color to create effective slides before content development.

Master typography for PowerPoint by choosing legible fonts like Open Sans, Arial, or Calibri, and applying a clear heading, subheading, and content hierarchy. Ensure left alignment and logical top-to-bottom flow.

Practice typography by converting a main heading, subheading, and content onto a canvas using shapes, alignment, and consistent font sizes, with a checklist to ensure hierarchy and spacing.

Explore how to use images, infographics, and icons in PowerPoint to enhance slides, including cropping to circle, scaling selected areas, and muting color with a transparent layer for clearer text.

Practice professional image editing in PowerPoint by cropping to 1:1, creating circle avatars, adding outer shadows, muting color, and layering a semi-transparent white shape under text to improve slide visuals.

Learn to design infographics and icons in PowerPoint using Unbroken for SVG downloads, apply custom color codes, and create cohesive visuals that align with your color templates.

Perform an infographic gathering activity to collate teamwork benefits—better problem solving, happier team members, boosted productivity—and customize color-matched infographics in PowerPoint while exploring infographic options.

Utilize icons to convey actions quickly in PowerPoint slides, balancing them with infographics to avoid overload, and access icons via the insert icons option or the provided course pack.

Keep slides clean by limiting to two colors, then add variety with gradients of the same color and versatile gray or white, accessible under home and shape fill.

Explore visual design resources like Canva, Creative Market, and Unsplash to build a personal slide library with icons and infographics for any consulting presentation.

Master PowerPoint's arrange tools to align to the top, distribute evenly, bring to front or send to back, and group objects for quick, precise slides.

Master keyboard shortcuts for PowerPoint to speed up slide creation, duplicating with control+shift+drag, and using the alt key to navigate the toolbar and access functions.

Develop a slide by defining your message with a clear heading and subheading, choosing qualitative or quantitative data, and selecting an exhibit type based on audience and comparison.

Identify the audience's goal and use key chart types—pack bubbles, bar/column, stat chart, scatterplot, bubble with size, maps, line, stacked area/column, histogram, and box plot—to convey quantitative insights.

Learn practical tips for quantitative slides: replace pie charts with column charts for accurate size representation, and choose charts based on the number of values on x and y axes.

Create and display charts in Excel for PowerPoint presentations, then customize headings, axis units in thousands, colors, and gridlines to enhance digestibility for clients.

Practice selecting the optimal exhibit type for trend visualization and editing a PowerPoint chart from Excel data to show revenue against target.

Explore qualitative slide options to show processes, timelines, comparisons, subcomponents, and team slides with charts like Gantt chart, prioritization matrix, donut diagrams, and ready-made templates.

Design a qualitative PowerPoint slide by building a donut chart with eight equal segments and a centered title to visualize marketing strategy subcomponents.

Learn qualitative slide design to build a KPI development timeline, with a week-by-week chart, color-coded phases, icons, and a legend to clarify deliverables.

Use storyboarding to craft a holistic, logically robust presentation before slides. Apply the Mece principle—mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive—to ensure complete coverage and avoid data overlaps.

Apply the MECE principle to storyboard a consulting presentation, outlining the current situation, a clear recommendation, and mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive conclusions driven by a concise slide structure.

Review the key elements of a quality slide, apply color, manipulate images and icon packs to fit your template, and storyboard to pre-plan a logical PowerPoint presentation.