Course description
This course will enhance your presentation skills by discovering new techniques to ensure your audience is captivated. Through practical exercises and by watching yourself present via camera, your presenting ability will improve as your confidence grows by mastering your unique style to deliver impressive presentations comfortably.
Whether you are presenting to educate and inform, influence or persuade, every move you make has an impact. Getting it right is a start but adding polish and impact will enable you to gain credibility, especially when under pressure from a potentially ambivalent, highly focused and knowledgeable audience.
Programme Summary
A key skill of personnel within the workplace is to present information in a format that will develop understanding and create actions for individuals and teams within the organisation. It may be in the format of a team briefing, a business presentation or a public speech. It may involve bringing colleagues up to date about a new development or making a sales pitch to a new or existing customer.
Key Learning Points
- Structure and build compelling presentations
- Consistently deliver in an engaging manner
- Build instant rapport & get an audience on your side every time
- Understand how best to use your voice
- Make your mark and be remembered
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Senior Managers, Directors and Business Leaders who need to present regularly on business matters and wish to maximise their impact and personal brand.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Benefits of Attending
- Developing the confidence of the individual by giving them experience of preparing and a presentation for a group of their peers.
- Giving the individuals the tools and techniques to make effective presentations.
Training Course Content
Session One
- Knowing the audience; “what do they need to know?”
- Defining the presentation and assembling the information
- Preparing a presentation plan and outlining a draft
- The use and place of visual aids within the presentation
- Preparing the venue; room layout
Session Two
- Checking the venue for the unexpected and the importance of contingency planning
- Adopting the right style - appearance, approach and establishing a presence through tone of voice and body language
- Involving the audience
- Managing the unexpected and improvisation
- Bringing the presentation to a satisfactory conclusion
Session Three
- Presenting information using the medium(s) available
- Building confidence in presenting information
- Giving and receiving constructive feedback
- Self – evaluation
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St Andrews Management Centre
St Andrews Management Centre is an independent training provider, based in Fife in Scotland, which provides accredited and non-accredited learning to clients in the domestic and international markets. Our specialisms include Leadership & Management, Coaching and Mentoring, Project Management, Finance...