Presentation Skills Training
Course Overview
Presenting information, solutions, technical data or sales pitches is a regular requirement in today’s business environment, but for many, the challenge is how to do it well, how to deliver with impact, how to be remembered for the right reasons! A key question is – do you enjoy presenting? Are you good at it? Do you receive positive feedback? Do you know what good looks like?
This course is designed to give you the confidence to apply taught skills, knowledge, techniques and strategies so that the nerves don’t trip you up and your presentations are winning presentations which close the deal, gain the commitment, get the message across with impact, style, humour when required, and with an overall sense that you are up there with the best!
Who Will Benefit From The Course?
- Anyone at all who needs to give presentations to team members, colleagues, managers and directors, potential or existing customers
- Managers and leaders who need to get the message across and gain commitment
- First time / first line supervisors, team leaders and managers who are increasingly required to share information, deliver action plans and initiatives and communicate new strategies and concepts
- Senior managers and directors who need to refresh the approach and skills and to compete with colleagues and impress the senior team
What Will You Gain From The Course?
- A new and growing confidence to deliver impactful presentations
- Learn key presentation skills
- Learn how to overcome nerves and to use the nerves to improve your presentations
- An ability to build rapport and empathy with the audience and get them on your side
- How to deal with and overcome the negative effects of being nervous
- How to manage the space around you and use effective body language
- Advance communication skills to adapt to different listening and learning styles
- How to handle questions from the floor and to manage the flow of communication, interaction, participation and control of the room
- How to use your voice, how to project it and protect it
- How to make a great impression and be remembered for the right reasons
- Learn how to use the technology and cut the waffle!
An Example Of A Presentation Skills Training Course
Below is an example of a Presentation Skills Course that we designed and delivered in the past 6 months:
This was a 2 day in-company course designed to develop presentation, communication and public speaking skills.
Delegates were required to prepare a short presentation prior to attending the course and an outline of another, these were delivered on several occasions resulting in the “finished article” on day 2!
Delegates were videoed and kept their tapes of the “before” and “after” presentations!
Course Outline
DAY 1
Introduction
Meets & Greets!
Course Objectives
Warm Up Exercise
The Presentations!
Introduction
Delegates deliver their prepared presentation number 1
Evaluate strengths and weaknesses
The Art Of Presenting
It’s a difficult job “but someone’s gotta do it!”
Presentation basics
Presentation Content and Presenter Behaviour
Structuring Your Presentation
Define your presentation objectives
Preparation
Generate ideas for creative delivery
Create A Powerful Start & Finish
Introduction
Visual Aids
Body of the talk
The Presentation
The Power Of Body Language & Voice
Importance of body language and your voice projections
Body language exercise
The 4 P’s of the Voice
Review Of Day 1 & Preparation For Day 2
Introduction to the presentation appraisal sheet
DAY 2
Review
Review of Day 1
Key learning points
The 2nd Presentations!
Delivery of 2nd presentation
Evaluate strengths and weaknesses using appraisal sheet
Key learning points
Using Effective Questioning & Answering Techniques
Responding to questions
Dealing with resistant views
Using influencing language
Effective Communications
What makes up an effective communication?
The golden rules for effective communication
Internal Representational Systems
What is a representational system?
How people represent what you say into their own language
Techniques and strategies to communicate effectively with people with different systems
Action Planning & Putting Into Practice
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