Course description
Effective Presentation Skills (Virtual)
In today’s results-oriented, global working environment, the ability to create and deliver presentations effectively is a necessary skill set for people at all levels of an organization. Regardless of your role, it’s important to know how to synthesize your ideas into a coherent and focused narrative, add visuals that support and reinforce your message, and deliver it in a way that resonates with your audience. In this highly interactive course, we will unpack and practice some of the tools and techniques used by top speakers and influencers all over the world.
In this engaging two-day course, you will plan, write, refine, practice, and deliver a presentation to the class. Your presentation will be filmed on both days, and you will leave the course with a flash-drive copy of your videos; participants of the virtual classroom workshop should be prepared to present via webcam. In addition to discovering and enhancing your own personal delivery style, you will learn how to create an overarching goal for your presentation and then organize and structure it for maximum impact. You’ll gain insight into how to anticipate your audience’s needs and tailor the content and delivery in a way that connects with them and sustains their attention and engagement. You will also learn skills that will help you control nervous energy, remain focused on and attuned to your audience, improvise under pressure, deal effectively with questions, and build a compelling call to action.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who Should Attend
- Project managers
- Program managers
- Line managers
- Technical managers
- Team members
- Anyone interested in improving presentation skills
Prerequisites
None
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will Learn
At the end of this program, you will be able to:
- Construct an effective presentation goal statement, opening, body, and closing that connect with an audience
- Analyze an audience’s needs and style preferences, including relevant DiSC®-related elements
- Deliver a complete criteria-based presentation that will persuade others
- Align usage of visuals as well as verbal and non-verbal techniques to maximize the impact of your presentation
Training Course Content
Getting Started
- Introductions and social agreements
- Course structure
- Course goals and objectives
- Opening activities
Planning and Organizing
- Video: “The Art of Misdirection”
- Setting your presentation goal
- Writing a goal statement
- Analyzing your audience
- Applying the “reality” test
- Creating and strengthening supports
- Structuring your presentation
5 components of an effective opening
Presentation body
Presentation closing
- Write your presentation opening
Audience Analysis
- Video: “How to Tie Your Shoes”
- Everything DiSC® introduction
- Audience DiSC® Styles
- Analyzing your audience
- Further audience analysis
Effective Delivery
- Delivery challenges and in-person
- Keeping your audience engaged
- Your body as your instrument
Verbal / paraverbal elements
Body stance and nonverbal communication
What are your “tells?”
Controlling nervousness
- Staying attuned to your audience
- Responding to questions
- Review and edit your opening
- Deliver your opening
Visuals and Enriching Elements
- Using images in your presentation
- Guidelines for visual composition
- Using questions to engage your audience
- The power of the pause
Practicing and Applying What You've Learned
- Preparation
- Delivery
- Feedback
- Opportunity to put into practice the program content and receive a video copy
Summary and Next Steps
- What did we learn and how can we implement this in our work environment?
- Your personal action plan
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