1 - 1.5 CPE This course explores how to use PowerPoint effectively in the business environment. The course not only covers the features of PowerPoint, but also how to use the features to create presentations that stand apart and engage the audience.
In this course we explore how to use PowerPoint as an effective visual aid to supplement any presentation. We also discuss how PowerPoint can be used to create our own graphics and customize imagery to share our ideas visually with our audience.
Learning Objectives
- Discover how to prepare presentations using all the major features of PowerPoint
- Recognize how to develop multi-media assets using the various features of PowerPoint
- Identify best practices for using PowerPoint as a visual aid for any presentation
Last updated/reviewed: August 16, 2023
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75 Reviews (227 ratings)
Reviews
Anonymous
(Associate Director)
Blair did a great job in keeping me engaged during his presentation. He did an amazing job in providing a great overview of using powerpoint, and the animations he used was fantastic when zooming in and highlighting certain features of powerpoint. The course is great when learning how to create effective and appropriate presentations within Powerpoint.
Anonymous
(CFO)
Blair Cook does it again with another engaging and effective presentation. What I liked the most was how Blair highlighted the strategic aspects of creating a great presentation to get your message across. This course is a must for anyone who needs to create a professional looking presentation.
Sabir Khan
(Admin at IT)
Blair Cook one of the finest presenter.All projects, Present & Future need presentation.This course equips with mid-level mastery in a very cohesive manner.Bonus lesson in end caters for the advance audience in running polls during or end of your presentation.No Pdf included for this Course
Anonymous
(Accountant)
Blair Cook provides a great overview of some of the PowerPoint features. I will need to use another course to get more details on how he did certain things, but this course provides a good explanation on how to improve presentations. Blair is a great presenter.
Tracey Van Hove
(Intern at EKS&H)
The teacher did a great job sounding interested in the subject matter and definitely had a powerful mastery of powerpoint. Definitely gained some useful information about powerpoint from this class! Would recommend to anyone who uses powerpoint often.
Dave Mercado
(Principal Mgmt Analyst at EBMUD)
An interesting combination of Powerpoint concepts to use to improve presentations, and how to use various Powerpoint features to create more effective slides. Definately need to pactice what was shown to be able to create better slides.
Anonymous
(Owner)
Clear, informative, engaging, and well laid out presentation. Blair is a wonderful presenter and is able to present and articulate in a way that both is engaging and leaves a lasting impression / memory of what has been taught.
Anonymous
(Controller)
loved this class. as someone who uses powerpoint a lot i found it very useful to remind myself of basic concepts as well as new tricks. I will be using a lot of what I learned from this class. The teacher is great.
Pamela LaPlaca, CPA
(Controller at EG USA)
Great class! The Bonus presentation is fantastic- will definitely be using that format. I am also excited to utilize his method for creating graphs in ppt using shapes rather than copying over from excel.
Dhaval Kadakia
(Director of Sales at JRC Conventions & Trade Fairs)
Liked : Screensize 16:9, presentation mode.
Dislikded: The downloaded slides ... there are hardly 10 slides?
What about the rest... I thought its incomplete.
5 Starts if you make a good attachment.
Anonymous
(Finance Manager)
Great points to consider about improving presentations. A very engaging presentation in its own right. I literally laughed out loud in my office at a couple of points during the course.
Anonymous
(solo)
Great course. Stated prerequisite requirements were appropriate and sufficient. Program materials were relevant and contributed to the achievement of the learning objectives.
Anonymous
(Logistics Analyst)
Instructor was very effective and structured the course in an organized, easy to follow manner. This approach kept me engaged and allowed me to easily retain the key concepts.
Abhiraj Gupta
(Financial Analyst at Osf Digital)
The course is very well designed for the beginners but it is very slow and gains interest and speed only in the bonus lesson.
At some places it seems some steps are missing.
Anonymous
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Very helpful. Will likely watch again and take notes - some good tips in how to do things more efficiently and make the presentation look more ptofessional in Powerpoint
Anonymous
(VP, WFM and BusTech)
This course provided a good overview for building an effective PowerPoint deck. A nice refresher highlighting many tips and tricks as well as basic functionality.
SUSAN ARRINGTON
(AP SPECIALIST at COMMONWEALTH CAPITAL CORP)
This was informative and interesting. I would recommend it to others for an understanding of making more effective/powerful presentations using power point.
Excellent short and informative presentation!!!! Anyone interested in making a PowerPoint presentation should definitely watch this video presentation.
Anonymous
(N/A)
The instructor was energetic and very easy to follow. I learned a lot of new techniques and information about PowerPoint that I never realized existed!
Gurdarshan Singh
(Team Lead at Escalon Services Inc)
I like this course so much because it includes some good tips on PowerPoint presentation that I did not know previously. I like the bonus lesson most.
Anonymous
(Internal Audit Manager)
Excellent course for any accounting professional. Great practical examples. I wish all the slides of the presentation were available to download.
Margaret Mueller
(Retired Controller at Self-employed)
I found this course entertaining as well as informative. The instructor demonstrates many methods to help make Powerpoint presentations engaging
Sarah Sessa-McCaughey
(CFO, Fine Arts and Entertainment Service.. at Iron Mountain)
Easy to follow, didn't try to cover too much so it was easier to retain the information and potentially try out new tricks in the future.
Anonymous
(Internal Audit Manager)
Great course and lively presentation made the content very interesting. Some good takeaways to keep in mind for the next presentation.
Mucio Batista
(Treasury Lead at Ppro Financial Ltd)
Exactly what I need it! Thanks a lot Professor Cook! I really enjoy learning more about presentations and Powerpoint new features.
Anonymous
(General Ledger Accountant)
I like this course so much because its a step by step procedures on how to make your presentation useful to the audience.
Anonymous
(Director of Institutional Effectiveness)
As a relatively experienced user of powerpoint, still found a few nuggets of great new information, engaging presenter.
Lawrence DeParis
(Founder & CEO at C-Level Solutions LLC)
Excellent course that will be of enormous practical use in improving my PowerPoint presentations...starting tomorrow!
Anonymous
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Good to know how to activate the animation as I've seen it in many presentations but didn't know how to turn it on.
Anonymous
(CPA)
Good hints for effective use of PowerPoint's features. Would like to have a PDF or outline of entire presentation.
TOMOAKI TOGO
( at Canadian Solar Japan)
it was difficult to pass because PDF doesn't really contain much of answers, so I need to watch lengthy video clip
Anonymous
()
This course had lots of useful tips about presentation strategy itself in addition to PowerPoint techniques.
Torin Campbell, CMA
(Controller at Form-A-Fab)
I am not a user of Powerpoint and this was a great intro and provides a great foundation to learn more!
Stephen Vigil
(Investment Accounting Bureau Chief at State of New Mexico)
This course provides useful and insightful tools and methods to increase the quality of a presentation!
Mark Brinkerhoff CPA, CGMA, ..
(VP Finance at Ultradent Products Inc.)
very good course. I like seeing the presenter. I would like to see an updated version of this course.
Edward Restelli
( at Envocore)
Well taught overview of the subject matter by a very engaging , entertaining and effective instructor.
Sharon Vincent
(CFO at MJC Electronics Corporation)
Very informative and interesting. I got a lot from this course that I can share with my co-workers.
Anonymous
(General Ledger Accountant)
I really like this course. I want to have more powerpoint related trainings. Very good speaker.
Monte Smith, CMA
(Chief Executive Officer at Gerding Companies, Inc)
Really appreciated the bonus lesson with a sample project. Blair Cook is an excellent trainer.
Anonymous
(Head of IFRS Department)
It allowed me to look under a different angle on things that I am doing for more than 15 years
John Noble
(Controller at eComEngine)
A lot of good ideas. I plan to use this info to improve my monthly meeting presentations.
Anonymous
(CFO)
Another great course by Blair Cook. I have not had a bad course yet on performative.com
Anonymous
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Could use a more in depth review at creating charts / graphics in the presentation.
Carla Mashinski
(CFO at Cameron LNG)
Good class with great ideas that I plan to use in my PowerPoint presentations.
Anonymous
(Director - Data Analytics, Sales and Pri..)
The visuals that were recommended to be created were not professional at all.
Stephen Sylvester
(Freelance Writer at Private)
Excellent course; instructor is interesting and effective. Useful material.
Nancy Dodd
(CPA / Owner at Nancy V Dodd CPA)
Excellent suggestions for making your PPT Presentations unique and impactful
Jennifer Treichler
(Sr. Mgr. Revenue Accounting at Robert Half)
Lots of tips and tricks to create a professional and engaging presentation.
Anonymous
(Tax Manager)
excellent course - I look forward to putting the lessons into practice.
Anonymous
(Senior Financial Analyst)
Author's presentation is crisp and relevant. Good refresher course.
Maya Walker
(Global Controller at Fourth Enterprises)
Course is good. It is using Powerpoint 2013. Enjoyed the bonus lessons!
Anonymous
(Senior Tax Manager)
Nice pace and practical instruction/ tips on improving presentations.
Anonymous
(Management Analyst)
This course was insightful and the speaker was exciting to listen to.
Anonymous
()
Good information to know. Course met its objectives. Learned a lot
Anonymous
(Program Analyst - Auditor)
Really great presenter and good course. Trying to make text longer.
Anonymous
(Head of Finance)
Excellent illustration. we need more course on presentation skills
Anonymous
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Great presentation skills. Useful info. Cool family feud game.
Tessa Jimenez
(Team Lead - GL at NetSuite)
Good to learn specially if you're into a lot of presentations.
Anonymous
(Sr. Administrative Clerk)
Learned new things about powerpoint, very engaging. Thank you!
Rahul Dalia
(Financial Services at Escalon Services)
Some good tips on Powerpoint that I did not know previously.
Dane Fuhrman
(- at ---)
Truly great content. It's a great and helpful presentation.
Stacy DaSilva
(Office Administrator at CNM LLP)
Clearly explained and easy to follow along and understand
Jose Maria Lopez
(Regional Manager of Accounting & Rep.. at VF)
Very Useful Course. I have picked some pieces of advice!
Anonymous
(Vice President, Finance)
It was a much more basic course than I anticipated.
Anonymous
(Head of Internal Audit)
Some unknown posibilities of PPT. Good to know.
Anonymous
(FP&A Manager)
Clear explanations and easy to use references.
Terri Salazar-Rodriguez
(None at None)
Great tips to quickly edit presentation.
George Holowko
(Operations & Finance Consultant at George Holowko, CPA, CCP)
Useful PowerPoint tips and tricks.
Anonymous
(CFO)
The course is very helpful
Anonymous
()
Definitely interesting
Alexander Makielski
( at Pero)
nice tips
Vahé Hovakimian
(Financial Analyst at Great Place to Work Institute)
Great!
Mei Ren
(Regional Director at AECOM)
Good
Max Davis
(Project Manager at Barclays)
Good
Anonymous
(Sr. Internal Auditor)
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Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Foundational
No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.
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