Welcome to PowerPoint for Business in 60 Minutes. Microsoft PowerPoint has been around for nearly 35 years, and I am sure you are familiar with it and have experienced many PowerPoint presentations – some good; many extremely tedious! Creating a business presentation in PowerPoint presents a number of challenges and there is a danger of “death by PowerPoint”. I recently attended a meeting which was supposed to be a planning discussion but which the person leading the meeting insisted on introducing with a PowerPoint presentation of 60 slides – mostly bullet points! We were hardly in the mood for action planning after that assault on our senses. PowerPoint is good for presenting business results or for a training course, but you need to plan your slideshow carefully to avoid bullet-point boredom and to keep your audience engaged and interested. And that is the purpose of this course – to teach you PowerPoint techniques which you may not be familiar with, and which will help you improve the impact of your business presentations. Less is more in a slide show so it is important to use techniques and effects which will help engage your audience and draw their attention to the points that matter. In “PowerPoint for Business in 60 Minutes”, I cover six key topics that will help you produce more impactful business presentations: 1. The best slide transitions and animations for business presentations 2. The morph transition to make the narration of an agenda, or similar list, or a team photograph extremely slick and professional 3. The Zoom effect to create a summary slide with hyperlinks to zoom into the section that you or your audience choose 4. How to animate charts to highlight the key points you want to bring out 5. How to embed Excel tables with slicers into PowerPoint, and why PowerPoint is not developed enough to make this useful for a business presentation 6. How to turn your PowerPoint presentation into a video. This is the technique I am most often asked how to do. This is not a full “PowerPoint from scratch” course: it assumes familiarity with Microsoft’s ubiquitous program. Instead, the course takes only 1 hour of your time to focus on key techniques that can help you improve the impact of the presentations you create. I hope you enjoy the course.