9 Essential PowerPoint Lessons For Training Professionals

Explore tips to design your PowerPoint presentations that tell your story more compellingly and more effectively to help you achieve your audience's goals.

Take a guided tour of the PowerPoint training interface, learning left-hand navigation, progress indicators and sections, plus video controls, autoplay options, speed and quality settings for cross-device streaming.

Design for impact by clarifying audience and the desired action, starting with the call to action, and offloading nonessential content to keep the deck focused and effective.

Prioritize less text and more visuals in PowerPoint for trainers, using pictures, designs, and minimized bullet lists to reveal relationships, aid understanding, and drive action.

Invest in infographics in PowerPoint to turn charts and data into visuals that reveal patterns quickly, tell a story, and help training professionals make informed decisions.

Start by outlining your talking points in speaker notes, then design slides to complement what you say. Avoid reading from slides and keep visuals minimal to engage the audience.

Incorporate multimedia strategically to tell your story with graphics, infographics, artwork, audio, video, animations, and embedded documents in PowerPoint slides, and learn when variety strengthens persuasion and audience understanding.

Create interactive PowerPoint slides with non-linear navigation and audience-driven branching. Pose questions or scenarios and branch slides to show different outcomes, and engage your audience in real time.

Create builds to reveal text, graphics, and artwork in sync with your talking points and audio track, guiding audience attention and engagement as content changes on screen.

Choose content that is relevant, meaningful, and contextual to the audience’s tasks, using real-world artifacts and examples to demonstrate how good content drives understanding and outcomes.

Create robust handouts that accompany your PowerPoint decks, serving as a bridge for audience use during and after the presentation, and offload content useful later.

Learn the tips and best practices from the PowerPoint for trainers program to apply the skills needed to deliver a strong presentation.