This impactful presentation training equips profiles who want to turn their slides into useful tools, read in diagonal and remembered. Over two days, you work on message framing, narrative structure, visual design and oral delivery. A complete approach reconciling content and form, opposed to the two usual pitfalls (overloaded or pretty but empty).
A useful presentation starts with the message to pass, not the slides to fill
For project managers, consultants, managers and experts in French speaking Switzerland, presenting has become a weekly act. The course relies on proven methods (Minto pyramid, story arc, Garr Reynolds design) and works your upcoming presentation. You leave with a reworked deliverable and lasting reflexes.
Presentations occupy a growing share of professional time: committee, client, seminar, internal training. Yet few profiles are trained in design and delivery. This course offers a structured approach for those who want to upskill on this critical practice, leaving bullet point slides behind. In Geneva and Lausanne, many participants come from consulting, finance, public sector, life sciences or international organizations.
A useful presentation starts with two questions: what key message I want to transmit, to which audience. The course offers framing canvases and practices this discipline on your real cases. An often rushed step, yet decisive, that radically changes the quality of the final deliverable.
Minto pyramid, story arc, problem-solution-benefit: several proven structures exist. The course presents the most useful and accompanies you in choosing per objective. With particular focus on opening and closing, two decisive moments often neglected in classic presentations.
Presentation design principles (one message per slide, visual hierarchy, contrast, white space) are not taste matters. The course details these principles with commented before-afters and reworks your slides in workshop. You leave with a review grid applicable to all your future presentations.
A good presentation can fail at delivery: voice, posture, gaze, timing. The course works these dimensions with exercises and feedback. With focus on fair posture, neither crushing nor erased. The specific case of video presentation is also addressed.
The Q&A session can reinforce or weaken your presentation. The course details question types, answer techniques (reframe, redirect, transparency on what you don’t know) and practices in role play. A skill often decisive in steering committees or client pitches.
Project managers, consultants, managers, business experts who regularly present their work to a committee, client or team. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes profiles from consulting, finance, life sciences, public sector and growing SMEs. No prerequisite other than regular presentation experience.
You frame a presentation in 30 minutes instead of 3 hours, structure a story that holds attention from the first slide, rework your slides from a clear grid, and hold an oral presence consistent with your message. You leave with your upcoming presentation effectively reworked and a training plan for the following ones.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs over two days with a communication consultant. Format with theory, rework of your real presentation, oral situation, personalized debrief. The format alternates short theory, sub-group workshops and individual exercises. Format alternates short trainer demonstrations, individual workshop time on your real deck, and peer feedback rounds. Beyond the two days, you keep the slide deck templates and a personal review checklist applicable to all your future presentations in committee or client setting.
A steering committee presentation that ends with precise decisions instead of soft discussion. A client pitch that ends on a clear commitment. An internal seminar where the team retains two key messages instead of thirty forgotten slides. The course addresses these three situations alternating slide rework and oral delivery, with personalized follow-up.
This training combines well with public speaking (course 14084) for oral delivery, storytelling (14086) for narrative structure, and PowerPoint diffusion course (14241) for technical animation in room or hybrid. Many participants enroll in one of these courses according to their current priority.
Three pitfalls remain frequent: overloaded slides assumed to compensate for lack of preparation, AI generated decks that look polished but lack substance, video presentations delivered as if in a room. The course addresses each, with a critical reading of current trends.
The way professional presentations are consumed has changed: shorter attention spans, hybrid formats, AI-generated decks circulating in committees. Standing out today requires both a clear narrative discipline and a critical posture on the visuals you produce. The course addresses both, with particular care taken on the AI tools that are often used without sufficient method.
Bring an existing presentation?
Yes, advised to work on concrete material. Otherwise the trainer provides a typical case close to your business.
Is it PowerPoint focused?
No, the course treats design, valid for PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides or other. For PowerPoint techniques, ITTA proposes dedicated courses.
What experience level?
From beginner to experienced presenter wanting to refine practice. Exercises adapt to level and trainer feedback.
Are presentations filmed?
Optionally and with agreement. Video allows precise feedback on posture and tone, but stays confidential.
Does the course cover AI slide generation tools?
Yes, a panorama of current AI tools (Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Copilot PowerPoint) is integrated, with critical posture on their benefits and limits.
And video presentation?
The specific case of remote presentation is treated: camera framing, gaze, shared slides management, animation with invisible audience.
How many presentations will I rework in course?
You work in depth on one main presentation (yours, ideally upcoming) and skim two or three others in short exercises. You leave with your support effectively improved.
Is the course adapted to executive level presentations?
Yes, with specific focus on executive committees: density of information, decision-oriented framing, anticipation of board-level questions.
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 Côtes 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.
