Presentation Skills Training online
Boring slides? Weak story? Our tailored, instructor-led online Presentation Skills Training helps teams deliver impactful presentations that inspire action.
Your Team Learns Three Core Skills
Craft audience-focused messages, structure the story, and design compelling slides.
Scoping & Core Message
Define the frame and central message of your presentation to make it highly relevant to your specific audience.
Storyline & Structure
Choose the ideal storytelling approach to guide your audience with clarity and keep them engaged
Visual Impact
Build compelling slides using clear design principles and time-saving techniques.
Agenda – Online Presentation Skills Training
Example agenda with content and activities for a 3-hour training delivered via Teams or Zoom
Scoping & Core Message (15 min)
- What Gets Attention – How the brain processes information and stays focused.
- Framing – Define the why, what, and who of your presentation.
- Understanding Your Audience – Consider their goals, prior knowledge, and benchmarks.
- Formulating the Core Message – Capture your main point in one clear, memorable sentence.
Storyline & Structure (90 min)
- The Hero’s Journey as a universal presentation structure
- Case study: Steve Jobs’ presentations
- Breakout Exercise (Groups of 3): Apply the Hero’s Journey to a topic of the participants’ choice in a 3-minute presentation
Alternative storytelling structures:
- McKinsey’s five-sentence structure
- Recommendation tree
- Pyramid structure
Break (15 min)
Slide Design in PowerPoint (60 min)
- Gestalt principles: proximity, similarity, connection, and common region
- Strategic use of colour to guide audience focus
- Exercises for building compelling common chart types: agenda, timeline, data visualizations of trends and survey results
- Rule of 3 for using images
- Alternatives to bullet points
- Top 10 PowerPoint Tips & Tricks – create professional slides with less effort using practical shortcuts, working with shapes, and more
- If time allows: Slidetuning – developing alternative versions of participants’ existing slides
Taught by Presentation Coach Joern Steinz
Joern Steinz (MBA)
Your Trainer:
Joern Steinz is the founder and CEO of INNOMINDS. With a background as a consultant at Accenture and as Manager of Corporate Development at XING AG, he spent years “living in PowerPoint,” creating high-impact management and client presentations on an almost daily basis.
In 2014, Joern founded INNOMINDS—an agency dedicated to inspiring and effective innovation and communication training. He is also a lecturer at the International School of Management (ISM) and a graduate of EADA Business School in Barcelona. His workshops consistently receive outstanding feedback, with an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars.
Selected Clients:
Over 600 organizations have benefited from our training, including:
Allianz, Audi, Bayer, Capgemini, DEG, Deutsche Bahn, Discovery Channel, E.ON, Ferrero, Harvey Norman, Horváth & Partner, James Hardie, Oldenburg State Bank, Link11, Lufthansa, McKinsey & Company, Navvis, Personio, Porsche, PwC, Robert Koch Institute, Ravensburger, RWE, Sanofi, Saubermacher, SC Johnson, Siemens, S-Kreditpartner, Telefonica, Vamtage Towers, Vincotec, Volkswagen, Vienna Stock Exchange — plus numerous agencies, trainers, coaches, and consultants.
Book Your Online Presentation Skills Training
Simple, transparent pricing – one flat rate for unlimited participants. Get your quote today. On request, also available as on-site training.