Course description
Presentation Skills
Presenting with confidence is an essential business skill.
Whether you are delivering a client presentation or addressing an internal gathering, good presentation skills are crucial for success.
This programme cover the foundation skills you need to improve the impact, clarity and structure of your presentations. Master the physical factors, harnessing the power of non-verbal communication. Engage your audience. Learn how to structure your presentation for best results. Deal with questions more effectively. Boost your confidence. And learn to enjoy doing it!
You will be expected to bring a 3-minute pre-prepared presentation to the workshop. You’ll get supportive feedback to ensure that you leave the session with greater confidence and competence to present effectively in any situation.
Delivery: Available as a full-day, half-day, bite-sized programme or webinar. Virtual and in-house delivery options.
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Outcome / Qualification etc.
- Have a benchmark for what powerful presenters do and don’t do
- Know how to structure a presentation to maximise impact and engagement
- Be able to master the use of posture and gesture for maximum impact
- Be able to avoid ‘death by PowerPoint’
- Improve your ability and confidence to get buy-in to your ideas
- Feel more confident when handling questions or challenges
Training Course Content
Handling nerves, feeling confident
- What makes someone a confident presenter?
- Why feeling nervous is a normal human reaction to being in the spotlight
- The mindset that will help you be a confident presenter
- Techniques for handling nerves
- The matrix of authentic presenting
- Pre-prepared individual presentations (3 minutes max) – practice activity
2 The 3Vs of powerful presenting
- The three primary channels of communication – Visual, Vocal and Verbal.
- Bringing the 3Vs to life – practice activity
3 Avoiding ‘death by PowerPoint’
- Hints and tips to make PowerPoint powerful
- Participants receive coaching from other participants and the trainer on their slides – what’s working and what needs to change?
4 Delivering with passion
- How to ensure that you are the presentation, not your slides
- Unscripted individual presentations – practice activity
5 Creating and structuring an audience-centred presentation
- Why the best presentations are audience-centred
- Organising materials to make presentations relevant and compelling
6 Getting your key messages across
- If you don’t get your key messages across clearly, you will never achieve the outcome you want
- Reducing the pre-prepared individual presentations from 3 minutes to just 90 seconds – individual activity
7 Managing audience attention spans
- How to keep your audience engaged
- How attention typically varies throughout a presentation
- Review the structure of the 90-second presentations and improving them – group activity
8 Actions and next steps
- Review
- Personal action planning
- Next steps
Course delivery details
Available as a full-day, half-day, bite-sized programme or webinar. Virtual and in-house delivery options.
Reviews
Average rating 4.8
It was great and informative, more people should do this course.
Helps boost your confidence in a supportive environment – don’t be scared, have a go!
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It is a good course to practice delivering a presentation. Also, was not too technical but a good refresher in presentation skills.