Courses

Improve your presentation skills by taking some courses. You can find courses on PowerPoint, Google Slides, presentation design and presenting. These courses are offered by LinkedIn Learning and you can get a 30-day free trial if you start now.

Courses on PowerPoint

PowerPoint essentials course

PowerPoint Essential Training

Beginner + Intermediate | Certificate of completion
You don’t have to be a designer to create a great visual presentation. Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to quickly create, edit, and share professional-looking presentations. In this training course, Jess Stratton shows how to get started with PowerPoint templates and themes or build a new presentation from scratch. 

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Make your presentation standout course

PowerPoint: Eight Easy Ways to Make Your Presentation Stand Out

Intermediate | Certificate of completion
Making your PowerPoint slides more polished and engaging is easier than you think. In this short course, presentation guru Jole Simmons shares some helpful tricks to take your PowerPoint game to a new level.  Learn to identify the main points of the story you’re trying to tell in PowerPoint. Find out how to go the extra mile in making design calls. Explore some ways to convey your information without forcing everybody to read what’s on the slide.

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Course on creating an infographic

PowerPoint: Creating an Infographic

Intermediate | Certificate of completion
You don’t need to use fancy tools to create an infographic. With PowerPoint, you can create a visually interesting and compelling infographic quickly and easily. Follow along with PowerPoint MVP Heather Ackmann as she walks you through the process. Heather begins by showing how to track down the right elements for your infographic, including how to import Illustrator graphics. Next, she shares how to design and create your own scalable shapes and custom graphics within PowerPoint. Learn how to adjust your infographic and export it for a variety of different outputs.

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Presentation secrets course

PowerPoint: Silicon Valley Presentation Secrets

Intermediate | Certificate of completion
In this course, presentation guru Jole Simmons reveals the slide design techniques used by pro-level presentation designers at cutting-edge Silicon Valley companies. Jole begins with a primer on the essential elements of a strong presentation, as well as an explanation of why presentation design is so popular in big tech. Learn how to craft custom shapes in PowerPoint, create a scrolling feed, use the PowerPoint Morph feature to create continuity through an intro sequence, add cool animations, and more.

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Courses on Google Slides

Course on Google Slides

Google Slides Essential Training

Beginner + Intermediate | Certificate of completion
Learn how to create high-impact presentations with Google Slides. Follow along with staff instructor Jess Stratton as she shows how to plan and build a presentation. Jess shows how to get started with a template or create a new slideshow from scratch. She covers adding and formatting text, working with images and shapes, and inserting video, diagrams, and charts. She also shows how to increase engagement with animation, collaborate with others in real time, download slides to your desktop, and use Presenter view to run the show.

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Presentation Design

Course on presentation design

Design a Compelling Presentation

Beginner + Intermediate | Certificate of completion
Learn the basic rules for achieving a balanced, professional, attractive, and compelling presentation, in Design 101. John McWade covers design essentials in way that won’t get you bogged down in the details or feel overwhelmed. This course is perfect for people new to design and nondesigners tasked with putting together a presentation—those who just don’t know how to make a design stand out or how to go beyond the templates in PowerPoint or Keynote. John offers expert advice on typography, color, consistency, using images, keeping it simple, and more.

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Presentation design course

Designing a Presentation

Beginner + Intermediate | Certificate of completion
Perhaps the most essential skill for all knowledge workers, sales professionals, business owners, and educators is the ability to design compelling presentations. Whether you’re reporting performance metrics, delivering a training, or pitching a big idea, you need a presentation to support you and illuminate your speech. Tony covers a variety of key topics, including moodboards, outlines, layout, type and text, color considerations, graphics, video, charts, transitions, and animations. 

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Public speaking foundation course

Public Speaking Foundations

Develop the skills you need to prepare and deliver an outstanding speech or presentation. In this course, Laura Bergells offers practical insights that can help presenters prepare, open, deliver, and close their speeches. Along the way, discover how to project confidence, outline a speech, take questions, and develop the creative story that adds life to a speech.

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Managing Your Anxiety While Presenting

Whether presenting, pitching, delivering a toast, or contributing in a meeting, most people experience some degree of anxiety about speaking in public. In this course, author Matt Abrahams explores what causes people to feel nervous and shares some common anxiety management pitfalls. He then offers anxiety management techniques to help you become more comfortable and confident when speaking in front of others. Matt also discusses specific things you can do to manage sources and symptoms of anxiety which can enable you to feel and appear more confident for any audience.

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Presentation skills

The 3-Minute Rule: Say Less to Get More

Want to deliver a pitch or presentation that grabs your audience and makes an impression? Join business author and sales coach Brant Pinvidic in this audio-only course, as he shares insights from his recent book The 3-Minute Rule: Say Less to Get More from Any Pitch or Presentation. By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped with proven strategies and presentation techniques for telling your story clearly and effectively to leave your audience wanting more. Why wait to polish your pitch when you can get started working on it now?

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