Advanced PowerPoint for Organizations
Description
Course Overview
In this course, students will learn to use PowerPoint more efficiently, while also learning to create beautiful, well-structured presentations that clearly communicate insights to clients and other stakeholders. Utilizing best practices from the consulting industry, this course provides each student with a comprehensive training on all things PowerPoint.
Whether you're a boutique consulting firm looking to train you incoming cohort, a university consulting club trying to make sure your graduates hit the ground running, or a Fortune 500 company that needs to train an entire team, this course will provide you with the high-quality training your organization needs to create c…
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Course Overview
In this course, students will learn to use PowerPoint more efficiently, while also learning to create beautiful, well-structured presentations that clearly communicate insights to clients and other stakeholders. Utilizing best practices from the consulting industry, this course provides each student with a comprehensive training on all things PowerPoint.
Whether you're a boutique consulting firm looking to train you incoming cohort, a university consulting club trying to make sure your graduates hit the ground running, or a Fortune 500 company that needs to train an entire team, this course will provide you with the high-quality training your organization needs to create clear, insightful, and impactful presentations.
What You Will Learn
- Communication: How to communicate more effectively using principles specific to content-heavy presentations
- Slide Design: How to design individual slides that deliver a clear message while displaying and emphasizing key insights
- Storyboarding: How to write a storyboard that improves project efficiency and ensures presentation structure
- Data Visualization: How to correctly choose a chart that will highlight your message clearly and tell a compelling "story"
- Advanced PowerPoint: How to utilize PowerPoint's advanced tools and lesser known features to build high quality presentations
- Speed and Efficiency: How to speed up unnecessary and time-consuming activities using PowerPoint's best shortcuts and commands
What Is Included
- 7+ hours of high-quality video instruction
- 14 hands-on exercises
- 5 keyboard shortcut quizzes
- Detailed slide breakdowns
- PowerPoint shortcuts cheat sheet (PDF)
- Consulting slide checklist (PDF)
- Choosing the Right Chart guide (PDF)
- Five step slide making tutorial
Course Outline
I. Effective Communication
- Section Overview - Understand how to structure information in your presentation to clearly communicate insights and key takeaways
- Key Topics - Pyramid Principle, storyboarding, slide structure
- Resources - 3 hands-on exercises, 1 examples and analysis video
II. Insightful Slide Design
- Section Overview - Learn the five principles of insightful slide design and how they enable you to build clear, insightful, and engaging slides
- Key Topics - Principles of insightful slide design
- Resources - Consulting Slide Checklist (PDF), 3 hands-on exercises, 30+ real consulting slide examples
III. Speed and Productivity
- Section Overview - Learn to build presentations more efficiently by utilizing PowerPoint's most useful features and keyboard shortcuts.
- Key Topics - Keyboard shortcuts, Quick Access Toolbar
- Resources - Top 50 PowerPoint Shortcuts for Consultants (PDF), 2 hands-on exercises
IV. Advanced Slide Construction
- Section Overview - See how to leverage PowerPoint's various features to build and edit slides with lightning speed and pixel-perfect accuracy
- Key Topics - Working with shapes, aligning and distributing objects, five-step slide building
- Resources - 2 hands-on exercises
V. Time-Saving Tools
- Section Overview - Learn to utilize native PowerPoint tools to enhance the design of your slides
- Key Topics - Colors, icons, pictures, charts, tables
- Resources - Choosing the Right Chart (PDF), 2 hands-on exercises
VI. Managing the Deck
- Section Overview - Understand how to better manage your presentation, with tips for building, reviewing, finalizing, and projecting the deck
- Key Topics - Ghost deck, reviewing and updating, finalizing and sharing, projecting
- Resources - 2 hands-on exercises
Course Instructor
This course is taught by Paul Moss, the primary instructor at The Analyst Academy. He is an experienced Management Consultant and Corporate Strategy professional, with 7+ years of combined consulting and strategy experience. In addition to his professional experience, Paul holds a MBA degree from Wharton Business School.
As an instructor, Paul has reached thousands of students through his online courses, where he focuses on teaching consulting skills to students, new hires, and experienced professionals. In addition to pre-recorded instruction, Paul has provided live and virtual group trainings to Fortune 500 companies and other institutions around the world.
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