Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the Course

  • 2

    Course Downloads

    • Advanced Presentation Skills for Business Manual
  • 3

    PowerPoint Essentials

    • What is PowerPoint

    • Create an Format a Presentation in PowerPoint

    • Design in PowerPoint

    • Working with the Slide Master

    • Align Objects in PowerPoint

    • Stacking Shapes, Pictures and Objects

    • Add, rearrange, duplicate and delete slides

    • Apply a Slide Layout

    • Using Themes in PowerPoint

    • Inserting Pictures in PowerPoint

    • Adding a Background Picture to your slide

    • Add or record Audio in your slides

    • Important PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts

    • PowerPoint Quiz
  • 4

    Presentation Styles & Tips

  • 5

    Virtual Sessions

    • Introducing the Class Digital Whiteboard

    • Navigating the Whiteboard

    • Adding Content to the Whiteboard

    • Formatting content on the Whiteboard

    • Using Keyboard Shortcuts for the Whiteboard
  • 6

    Session 1

    • Assignment Instructions

    • Assignment Submission - Session 1

    • How to create a Pecha Kucha Presentation with PowerPoint

    • How to record a Presentation with PowerPoint
  • 7

    Session 2

    • Download this Story Template

    • Download Sample Data

    • Telling stories with a chart

    • How to create a data story template

    • Session 2 Assignment Upload
  • 8

    Session 3

    • Session 3 Assignment & Sample Data

    • Ways to Summarize Numbers
  • 9

    Session 4

    • Session -04 Group Assignment
  • 10

    Session 5

    • Assignment Submission - Session 5
  • 11

    Final Submission

    • Final Presentation Upload
  • 12

    International Business Communications Standards

    • Introduction

    • Unit 1 - Semantic Notation - Other Disciplines

    • Unit 2 - Topics for Semantic Notation in Business

    • Unit 3 - Business notation Manual

    • Unit 4 - Templates for Charts and Tables

    • Unit 5 - Benefits of Standards in business notation

    • Unit 6 - Conceptual, Perceptual and semantic Design

    • Unit 7 - SAY and STRUCTURE

    • Unit 8 - EXPRESS and SIMPLIFY

    • Unit 9 - CONDENSE and CHECK

    • Unit 10 - UNIFY and the IBCS Project
  • 13

    Evaluate the Course

    • Instructions

    • More resources for you

    • Evaluate & get your Certificate
  • 14

    Bonus Content

    • PowerPoint: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence with Design Ideas

    • PowerPoint: Organise slides into sections

    • PowerPoint: Inserting a Linked Excel Chart

    • PowerPoint: Using Morph Transition for special effects

    • Building Charts like the Economist

    • The Age of Insight

    • 5 Things to know to create persuasive Content

    • Importance of Hierarchy in Design

    • Working with how our Brains & Eyes work

Instructor

David Brown

FCA, Microsoft MVP

David has worked with and taught Excel and financial modelling to over 4,000 people in the last 22 years. He is the Managing Partner of dbrownconsulting where he runs the Consulting Division.He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria & a Financial Analyst with over 16 years experience working as a Business intelligence, Financial Modelling & Tax Consultant with Arthur Andersen, KPMG & dbrownconsulting.He is also an International Consultant to the World Bank on Oil Revenue Modelling and is a registered financial adviser.David attained the Master Trainer & Master Instructional Designer designation from the Association for Talent Development (ATD).He is passionate about Financial Modelling, Business Intelligence and Analytics especially with Microsoft Power BI and Excel and regularly host meetups and speaker event in Nigeria and around the world.

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