This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Most business presentations are a document read aloud: everything from the analysis goes onto the slides, in the order it was produced, and the audience is asked to reconstruct the point. Here are 430 tools to change that: 297 ready-to-use procedures, templates, question lists, checklists and AI prompts, 96 models and methods, 36 services shown on screen and the Five Presentation Fixes.

Open a lecture, take the fix, rebuild your next presentation around one message.

Why good material makes weak presentations

A presentation is not a report with a person attached. When there is no single message, the speaker covers everything, the audience remembers nothing, and the decision is postponed. Objections catch the speaker unprepared, and online audiences leave quietly.

What changes after this course

Each presentation has one message and everything else serves it or is cut. The story follows a clear structure, the speaker knows the room, handles objections and closes, and online sessions keep people engaged. You measure whether anything changed after you spoke.

What is inside: 430 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 39 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus the Five Presentation Fixes
• 297 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 110 step-by-step procedures and workflows: sales presentation, value proposition development, feel felt found, small-group reporting
• 55 templates and sample documents: sales storytelling, communication story, effective message, visual brief
• 51 question lists and scripts: elevator pitch, webinar opening script, facilitation opening speech, discussion redirection script
• 44 checklists: messaging consistency, effective message, webinar preparation, bad news communication
• 16 ready AI prompts: messaging matrix generation, big idea generation, campaign headline generation, brand voice agent
• 13 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: active listening competency, communication competency, messaging matrix, stakeholder influence-interest matrix
• 5 other working tools and 3 metric sets: resonant leadership reflection worksheet, crossing the river exercise
• 96 models and methods explained with examples: AIDA persuasion model, active listening, know-feel-do communication model, rule of seven
• 36 services shown on screen, including ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Notion and Docebo

Where the tools are

The speaker behind the slides (3 sections, 42 tools). Listening, empathy, courage, integrity and judgement under pressure.

Message and story (4 sections, 177 tools). Positioning, the big idea, AIDA, SPIN, FAB, persuasion and closing.

Knowing the room (2 sections, 46 tools). Audience audit, segments, channels and hard messages.

Presenting live and online (2 sections, 73 tools). Format, behaviour, holding attention and evaluation.

Holding the room (2 sections, 103 tools). Preparation, running the session, agreement and large or online groups.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

As deputy HR director at the STB TV channel, I prepared presentations that went to shareholder representatives and the owners, who decided whether to fund salary reviews or new positions based on them. At conferences, when I speak after lunch, I sometimes ask the whole room to stand and sit down by answers to my questions, which wakes people up and proves the point in a minute.

How to use the course

Start with the Five Presentation Fixes and the message sections, then use the audience, live and online, and facilitation sections for your next talk. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 40 lectures across 14 sections, 18.5 hours
• 39 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and the Five Presentation Fixes
• 430 tools across the lessons, including 36 services shown on screen
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Write the one sentence your audience should remember from your next presentation, then remove every slide that does not support it. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.