Developing Powerful Presentations

MODULE 1: Introduction and Course Overview

MODULE 2: Preparing Your Presentation: Overview
Learning outcomes: Learn how to set clear, focused objectives by understanding your topic and your audience, and then build the structure.
Topics covered:

• Setting Your Objectives (Answering the WHY)
• Knowing Your Audience (Answering the WHO)
• Building the Structure (Answering the WHAT)

MODULE 3: Setting Your Objectives
Learning outcomes: The keys to understanding purpose, identifying desired outcome and the style that will be most effective are well discussed in this section.
Topics covered:

• What Are You Trying To Do?
• Identifying your Objective
• Discussion

MODULE 4: Knowing Your Audience
Learning outcomes: Examine and define your audience to ensure the greatest impact is through asking the right questions. In this module we cover the most popular.
Topics covered:

• A Basic Definition of your Audience
• Understanding Your Audience
• Focus, Plan, and Convey
• Audience Profile

MODULE 5: Making Your Listener Hear You
Learning outcomes: Review key themes and discover interesting opportunities to engage your audience on common ground, and be more effective in your presentation style.
Topics covered:

• Key Themes
• Finding Common Ground
• Key Sentences

MODULE 6: Factual Content
Learning outcomes: Being informed, having an open mind and delivering hard facts can add value and dimension to any presentation. In this module we look at the how and why.
Topics covered:

• The Need for Factual Content
• Researching the Facts

MODULE 7: Building the Structure
Learning outcomes: Understand the consequences of poor planning through to the benefits of cohesion, aims and adaptability. Structure can consist of three key protocols that are easily defined.
Topics covered:

• The Consequences of Bad Preparation
• The Three Benefits of a Plan
• Presentation Structure: an Overview

MODULE 8: The Introduction
Learning outcomes: Looking at the key points and purpose can all be part of an opening statement, whether dramatic, personal or simply introductions. Review the options open to you.
Topics covered:

• Four Points to Remember about Introductions
• The Opening Statement
• Following the Opening Statement

MODULE 9: The Main Body of Your Presentation
Learning outcomes: The power of threes and building on value principles. A simple five step process, and in this section how five processes can lead to expansion.
Topics covered:

• The Power of Threes
• Building a Basic Plan

MODULE 10: Expanding a Basic Plan
Learning outcomes: Infilling and amplifying a presentation with evidence or arguments that reinforce the points you make.
Topics covered:

• Using Symbols
• Opposites

MODULE 11: The Conclusion
Learning outcomes: The ending is an opportunity to recapture theme and summarise, to be dramatic turn of statement or a general cohesive summary, in this module the options are yours.
Topics covered:

• Writing a Good Ending
• General Points About Endings
• Closing Your Presentations: Some Alternatives

MODULE 12: Timing Your Presentation
Learning outcomes: Learn how to avoid the pitfalls of distractions which cause you to over-run, and ways to stay on track
Topics covered:

• How to prevent over-running

MODULE 13: Your Personal Action Plan