The Visio training gives you a solid foundation to create professional schemas, diagrams and organizational charts with Microsoft Visio. Over a full day, you discover the Visio environment, templates, smart shapes and techniques to quickly produce flawless business visuals. A strategic skill for technical, organizational and management profiles in French speaking Switzerland.
Communicate an organization or process in a schema that speaks immediately
For technical profiles in French speaking Switzerland, knowing how to produce a clean Visio schema directly improves clarity and credibility. This Visio training is built around hands on cases: team org chart, network schema, business process, layout plan. By the end, you walk away with techniques usable the very next day and a reference handbook to reproduce each step at your desk.
Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Creating a new diagram
Module 3: Adding sophistication to your drawings
Module 4: Flowcharts and organization charts
Microsoft Visio remains the reference tool to produce schemas and diagrams in business. Whether to model a business process, draw a network architecture, present an organization or map a workflow, Visio offers a shape library and connector logic that few other tools provide. The Visio training delivers these reflexes in one intensive day.
The benefit is immediate: a clean Visio schema often replaces ten paragraphs of explanation. Mastering this tool means giving yourself the means to communicate an organizational or technical idea in minutes rather than long meetings.
The training starts with a complete hands on use of the Microsoft Visio interface: ribbon, shape panels, display modes. You then discover the templates built into Visio (org charts, business process, plans, network schemas, BPMN) and learn to choose the right template based on the type of schema to produce.
This template familiarity saves valuable time: you no longer start from scratch each schema, you adapt an existing template that guides the layout.
The heart of Visio training is mastering smart shapes and dynamic connectors. You learn to insert predefined shapes, parameterize them (size, color, label), connect them with connectors that automatically adjust when shapes move. This logic is what makes Visio powerful compared to a simple drawing tool.
Automatic layout techniques (alignment, distribution, grouping) are also covered to produce balanced schemas without tedious manual manipulation.
The training details the most common Visio uses in business. Org charts to visualize a team, BPMN schemas to formalize a business process, network schemas to map an IT infrastructure, layout plans to design a space. Each type is worked on concrete cases.
The Visio Fundamentals training is designed for project managers, engineers, HR, consultants, trainers, self employed professionals and anyone needing to visually communicate an organization, process or architecture. No specific prerequisites beyond using a computer.
Within our ITTA premises in Carouge and Le Flon, this Visio training runs over one day led by an expert instructor in a limited group, ensuring individual attention. You build your own schemas in session and wrap up with a reference handbook to reproduce the steps.
What is Microsoft Visio used for?
Visio is the Microsoft tool to create schemas, diagrams and organizational charts: business processes, network schemas, org charts, layout plans, BPMN.
Is Visio included in Microsoft 365?
Visio requires a separate license (Visio Plan 1 or Plan 2). It is not included in standard Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
Do I need technical drawing skills to use Visio?
No, Visio is an accessible business tool. Predefined shapes and connectors guide creation.
Does Visio replace PowerPoint for schemas?
For complex or technical schemas, yes. Visio is more powerful than PowerPoint on structured diagrams.
Where does this training take place?
The Visio training is held at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom for remote participants.
How long until you become autonomous with Visio?
The basics are acquired in a structured day. Mastery comes with practice on your own schemas.
How to go further after this Visio training?
The Visio Advanced course for complex schemas, or organization and business process courses (BPMN, project management).
Profiles in project management, organization, quality, processes, IT, and any collaborator needing visual representation of processes, org charts or architectures. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.
You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.
A quality officer modeling business processes of her department. A project leader drawing flowcharts of a complex project. An IT architect representing the application architecture. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.
This training combines well with Visio Advanced for complex features, Microsoft Project for project management, and PowerPoint to integrate diagrams in presentations. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.
Visio remains Microsoft reference for visual modeling in organizations already invested in Microsoft 365 suite. Recent evolutions integrate modern template galleries (BPMN, AWS, Azure, Cisco) and collaborative functions via SharePoint and Teams. This training lays bases for users wanting to master the tool without wasting time tinkering.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.
Which Visio license is required?
The course covers Visio Plan 1 and Plan 2.
Suitable for beginners?
Yes, this fundamentals course is designed for users having never used Visio.
Is Visio still relevant vs web tools?
Yes, particularly in Microsoft 365 organizations where native integration is precious.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
