
Join Kevin, a senior consultant, as he shares expert PowerPoint tactics for structured, aesthetic business presentations across financial services, health, public sector, and mining. Learn from his mentoring experience with junior consultants and pro bono university projects to elevate your own slides.
Learn to structure logically robust slides, design effective exhibits, and craft beautiful PowerPoint presentations using images, infographics, icons, and charts for both qualitative and quantitative data.
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.
Learn visual design fundamentals for PowerPoint, covering typography, images, infographics and icons, and color to create effective slides before content development.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This course is a consolidation of the knowledge that I have accumulated from my multiple years of working in the top consulting firms, where I started as a graduate and am now a senior consultant.
Often spending most of my day knee deep in PowerPoint, my day to day familiarity allows me to share with you the most up to date tools, tips and techniques that are required to create a highly impactful presentation.
In the world of consulting and business, far too often, the PowerPoint slides that are created lack a good structure and are unaesthetic, making it difficult for the audience to ingest the intended message.
This course will empower you to
Structure your presentation to ensure the robustness of your reasoning
Select the optimal exhibits ( graphs, charts, diagrams, etc..) to convey your message effectively
Develop visually aesthetic PowerPoint slides in a timely manner
I will take you through the principles required to create a quality slide pack across all its elements, and allow you to get your hands dirty with the numerous exercises designed to cultivate a set of hands and eyes that is optimised to create PowerPoint slides.
I hope this course will provide value to you.
Thank you