Confident Presenter - Presentation skills

Confident Presenter - Presentation skills

Details
 
Max number of participants: 6
Duration: 1 or 2 days
Available as: In-company and public course
 
Benefits
 

• Feel confident to present in any situation
• Enhance the clarity and power of your voice
• Have an easy-to-use checklist for fast preparation
• Maintain audience attention throughout your session
• Connect with your audience through eye contact  
• Know how to use visual aids effectively and avoid ‘Death by PowerPoint’
• Create a convincing and memorable outcome 
• Focus attention on key points you want to get across
• Anticipate and prepare for questions effectively
• Win more business and get buy-in to your ideas
 
Course Outline
 
How to be more confident and say goodbye to nerves
• Many people have a fear of speaking in public, but you can learn to enjoy it rather than endure it
• The power of visualisation, breathing techniques, and other ways for managing your emotional state
• How thoughts affect your emotional state
 
Posture, body language and movement
• Know the best way to stand and what to do with your arms and hands
• How maintaining good eye contact can help you connect with your audience 
• Eliminating distracting mannerisms
Developing an interesting and powerful voice
• Practical exercises for adding variety and interest
• The power of the pause and how to avoid coming across as monotonous
 
Essential steps of preparation
• Handling logistics, being clear about your objective and understanding your audience
• Learn to use a step-by-step process that guarantees a successful presentation
• How to structure your presentation and keep your audience on track
 
Managing attention span
• Why attention can quickly dip and how to maintain it through a longer presentation 
• Transforming a potentially dull transfer of data into an engaging presentation
• Presenting with passion and conviction to achieve powerful results
 
Getting off to a good start
• How to get off to the best possible start
• Build rapport and connect with the group easily
 
Key messages
• Differentiate between key messages (what you say) and subject areas (what you talk about)
• Communicate your key messages clearly and effectively
• How to make important points stick
 
PowerPoint and other visual aids
• Avoid ‘Death by PowerPoint’ and turn it into an asset
• Using flipcharts and other kinds of visual aid
• How to use notes and visual aids effectively
 
Handling questions effectively
• The importance of anticipating questions and preparing for them
• What to do when you don’t know the answer to a question or someone interrupts you mid-flow