Looking for a PowerPoint course to upskill your staff? BOTI’s MS PowerPoint for Beginners is a 1-day, MICT SETA-accredited course that teaches teams to build professional, persuasive presentations. This is a unit-standard qualification that is migrating to the new QCTO system — accredited enrolment is available now; please confirm current accreditation when you book. Delivered in-house or off-site across South Africa. Request a quote or a 15-minute callback today.

Why Choose This PowerPoint Course for Your Staff

Microsoft PowerPoint is the presentation application of the Microsoft Office suite, and it remains the default tool for boardroom decks, client pitches, training sessions and management reporting in South African workplaces. Staff who cannot build a clean, on-brand slide deck cost your business time and credibility in front of clients.

This PowerPoint course equips your team to create winning, creative presentations using features such as inserting shapes and images, adding animations, and using SmartArt to produce organisation charts that combine pictures and text. The result: consistent, professional decks that reflect well on your brand.

BOTI is an accredited South African corporate training provider with 450 courses and a client base that includes Sasol, Glencore and the City of Johannesburg. Training is delivered for your staff and teams, not for individual job-seekers.

Course Overview

The MS PowerPoint for Beginners course teaches participants to create professional presentations using PowerPoint’s sophisticated features. Learners move from a blank slide to a polished, audience-ready deck with consistent design, professional animations and well-formatted visuals.

Indicative pricing (ex VAT)

Rates are indicative; final quotes depend on group size, location and delivery mode. Request a tailored quote for your team.

Course Outline: What Your Team Will Master

Over one focused day, delegates work hands-on through the core skills needed to prepare and produce a presentation according to a given brief:

• Slide design fundamentals — designing effective slides using consistency and contrast
• Themes and customisation — working with presentation themes, the Quick Access Toolbar, colours, fonts and effects
• Placeholders and backgrounds — formatting placeholders and applying background styles
• Pictures and graphics — inserting, cropping and formatting pictures and graphics
• SmartArt and shapes — building organisation charts and diagrams that combine text and images
• Animations and media — using animations and media professionally, without distracting the audience
• Headers, footers and notes — adding headers, footers, dates, page numbers and speaker notes
• Managing slides — sorting, hiding and managing slide layouts

By the end, delegates can independently produce a clean, professional deck aligned to a brief — a directly measurable workplace outcome.

What Clients Say

“This course was a real benefit in learning the finer details of PowerPoint.” — Daniels Cloete, Black Mountain Mining

Participants consistently report improved understanding of the application and single out the animation and presentation-design features as particularly valuable for day-to-day work.

Word & PowerPoint Skills for Professional Teams

PowerPoint rarely works in isolation. In most South African offices, a polished deck starts as a Word document — the agenda, the proposal, the report — before it becomes slides. Teams that are fluent in both Word and PowerPoint move faster: they draft content once, repurpose it cleanly into slides, and keep formatting consistent across every client-facing document.

For HR and L&D buyers, combining Word and PowerPoint skills across a team delivers compounding returns:

• Consistent corporate branding — fonts, colours and layouts that match across documents and decks
• Faster turnaround — content drafted in Word flows straight into a structured PowerPoint deck
• Fewer rework cycles — staff who understand formatting fundamentals make fewer last-minute fixes before a pitch
• Stronger client perception — every touchpoint, from proposal to presentation, looks deliberate and professional

How to build Word & PowerPoint capability across your team

You can build broader office capability in a few ways, depending on your team’s current level:

1. Targeted PowerPoint upskilling — start with this 1-day MS PowerPoint for Beginners course for staff who need presentation skills now.
2. Combined office suite training — for teams that need Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook together, the Microsoft Office All-In-One Course is a 5-day accredited programme covering Windows fundamentals, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook in one block.
3. Foundational computer literacy — the MS Office Power Course (Introduction, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) is MICT SETA accredited and aligned to five unit standards, ideal where staff need full grounding in office software.

A practical approach for many businesses: run the all-in-one course for newer staff, and use the focused PowerPoint course as a refresher or upskilling session for people who already use Office but produce inconsistent decks.

Beyond the Slides: Presentation Delivery Skills

Building a strong deck is half the job — delivering it with confidence is the other half. Teams that present to clients, boards or stakeholders benefit from pairing PowerPoint design skills with delivery training.

BOTI’s Presentation Skills Training — “Present Like a Pro” is a 2-day workshop that helps professionals overcome public-speaking anxiety and engage audiences using verbal and non-verbal communication and a range of visual aids, including PowerPoint. Combining the PowerPoint course (the deck) with presentation skills (the delivery) gives your team end-to-end confidence in front of any audience.

Funded & In-House Training for SA Employers

Corporate training in South Africa can support your broader skills-development and compliance goals. Employers paying the Skills Development Levy (SDL = 1% of payroll) can claim back a portion through their SETA, and accredited training counts toward the skills-development element of your B-BBEE scorecard, where the skills-development target is 6% of the leviable amount. Accredited courses delivered via the relevant SETA/QCTO also strengthen your annual Workplace Skills Plan and Annual Training Report. (Note: this PowerPoint course is a legacy unit-standard qualification migrating to the QCTO system — accredited enrolment is available now; please confirm current accreditation when you book.)

Free Lead Magnet

Not sure where to start? Download our free Team Skills Planner — a one-page worksheet to map which staff need PowerPoint, Word or full MS Office training, and how to phase it across the year. Request the planner with your callback.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long is the PowerPoint course and what does it cost?

Is this PowerPoint course accredited?

Yes. The course is MICT SETA accredited and aligned to Unit Standard 117923, which covers using a GUI-based presentation application to prepare and produce a presentation according to a given brief. This is a unit-standard qualification that is migrating to the new QCTO system — accredited enrolment is available now; please confirm current accreditation when you book. Accredited training counts toward your B-BBEE skills-development element and Workplace Skills Plan.

Can the PowerPoint course be delivered at our offices?

Yes. BOTI delivers the course off-site or in-house across all major South African city centres — Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria — as well as remotely. In-house delivery trains your whole team together on your own documents.

Should our team do PowerPoint alone or the full MS Office course?

If staff only need presentation skills, the 1-day PowerPoint course is the most efficient option. If they need Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook together, the 5-day Microsoft Office All-In-One Course or the MS Office Power Course provides full coverage. Many employers combine both — full suite training for newer staff and the focused PowerPoint course as a refresher.

What will our staff be able to do after the course?

Delegates will be able to independently design consistent slides, insert and format pictures and SmartArt, apply professional animations and media, add headers, footers and speaker notes, and produce a polished presentation aligned to a brief — directly applicable to client pitches, reports and internal training.

Request a Quote or 15-Minute Callback

Ready to upskill your team’s presentation capability? Get an accredited PowerPoint course delivered in-house or off-site, anywhere in South Africa.

• Phone: 011-882-8853
• Request a quote or a 15-minute callback: boti.co.za
• Free download: Team Skills Planner (Word & PowerPoint training roadmap)

Talk to BOTI about funded, in-house training that builds Word and PowerPoint skills for professional teams.