1 hour agoOffice ProductivityStep-by-by step explained: Using AI tools, smart storytelling and design shortcuts for faster & better presentations
Course Description
All important business decisions are driven by professional presentations – even in the age of AI, digital tools and modern collaboration platforms.
Whether in Board Meetings, Executive Committees, Workshops or Pitches: If you can deliver compelling presentations, you boost your impact and visibility in your company.
Yet most professionals spend far too much time on creating slides, struggle to structure and communicate their ideas in a convincing story, and fail to leverage the full potential of modern AI tools. Simply asking AI to create a presentation or content elements rarely delivers professional results.
Drawing on 10+ years of strategy consulting and hundreds of executive-level presentations, this course teaches a practical and proven workflow my team and I use every day for creating high-quality business presentations with maximum speed. The end-to-end workflow is built on three powerful building blocks:
AI Tools – Leverage AI to its full potential throughout the entire presentation creation process including content definition, storyline development, slide creation and presentation refinement
Smart Storytelling – Build convincing storylines combining Pyramid, MECE and other executive communication principles with effective storyline patterns
Design Shortcuts – Create professional consulting-style slides using proven design principles, smart layouts, base templates and powerful PowerPoint productivity tools
The result: Better business presentations in a fraction of the time.
How this course is build
This course is designed as a two-track training:
Core Track (~6 hours) – The complete AI-enhanced workflow to build professional presentations ultra-fast (hands-on and immediately applicable)
Practical Add-ons (~6 hours) – A realistic business case study applying the complete workflow from initial objectives to a complete deck, plus deep dives into the 15 most important slide types with live-building and multiple examples.
What you will learn in the Core Track
The Core Track follows a complete AI-enhanced workflow for creating ultra-fast business presentations:
1. Course information and role of AI
Understanding the role of AI in the creation of modern business presentations
Introducing the end-to-end AI-enhanced workflow for fast and effective presentations
Applying effective prompting techniques
2. The right mindset for fast AI-enhanced presentations
Developing the mindset and working habits to create presentations with maximum speed and impact - based on 6 clear priniciples
Avoiding common traps like perfectionism or overengineering
3. Presentation objective definition and context check
AI as Strategic Advisor
Clarifying presentation objectives and desired outcomes
Understanding audiences and stakeholder expectations
Analyzing presentation context and business environment
4. Rapid storyline structuring and content definition
AI as Storytelling Partner
Applying Pyramid Principle and MECE thinking
Defining on-point key messages for your presentation
Learning proven and highly effective storyline patterns
Structuring content and building smart storylines
5. High-speed slide design
AI as Slide Creator
Translating storylines into visual storyboards and slide concepts
Understanding modern presentation design principles
Introducing the most important business slide types
Creating a professional and reusable Powerpoint base template
Building professional consulting-style slides
Applying Powerpoint design shortcuts and other productivity tools
6. Quick review and final refinement
AI as multi-perspective Reviewer
Conducting effective presentation reviews
Gathering feedback from colleagues and AI
Implementing improvements
Performing final quality checks before presentation delivery
What you get in addition in the practical Add-Ons
Business case study
Deepening the understanding of the workflow by applying every step to a realistic case study and building a professional management presentation from scratch
Learning to handle typical challenges, trade-offs and decisions that arise throughout the creation process of professional presentations
Slide type deep dives
Mastering the 15 most important business slide types with key principles for each type, live-building and multiple examples
Included slide types: Management Summary, Agenda, Targets & Objectives, Decision Requests, Discussion Questions, Model Visualization, Process, Organization, Timeline, Logical Chain, Table, List, Form/Template, Diagram, Visuals/Pictures
By the end of this course
After completing this course, you will be able to create compelling business presentations at a higher quality and significantly faster than today.
You will:
Leverage AI as a powerful partner throughout the entire presentation creation process
Apply the mindset and working habits of highly effective presentation creators
Build convincing storylines and transform them into presentation-ready slides at maximum speed
Master the 15 most important business slide types with consulting-style design principles and PowerPoint productivity shortcuts
Use a repeatable workflow across projects, workshops, management reviews, strategy initiatives and other presentations
The result: You turn PowerPoint into your powerful career accelerator and boost your professional impact.
Note: As this course teaches AI-enhanced workflows, the demonstrations naturally feature AI-generated content.
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