Presentation Skills Course Overview
Delivering effective presentations is a common activity that nearly everyone at work has to do in todays business environment. The question is - do you enjoy doing them? and are you good at them?!!
This course is designed to provide you with the skills, knowledge, techniques and strategies to deliver winning presentations so that you can get your point across in a confident manner and get rid of those nerves and fluffed lines!
Who Will Benefit From The Course?
- Managers who are responsible for delivering a lot of presentations
- First time managers/supervisors who will be exposed more and more to giving presentations
- Senior Managers who want to sharpen their skills and deliver
- Anyone who finds giving presentations a difficult taks!
What Will You Gain From the Course?
- Develop key presentation skills
- How to use effective body language and how to manage your space
- Learn how to build rapport with the audience and how get them on your side
- How to prepare for any presentation
- Learn advanced communication techniques to adopt to different listening and learning styles
- Learn how to overcome your nerves
- Learn how to answer questions from the floor in an effective manner
- Learn how to project your voice, tonality and inflection
- Learn how to make a memorable first impression and keep the presentaton interesting
- Learn how to cut out the waffle!
An Example Of A Presentation Skills Training Course
Below is an example of a Presentation Skills Course that I 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 and 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 and finish
Introduction
Visual Aids
Body of the talk
The Presentation
The Power of Body Language and Voice
Importance of body language and your voice projections
Body language exercise
The 4 P's of the Voice
Review of Day 1 and 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 and answer 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 practise
Next Steps
The course content can either follow something similar to the above, or be tailored to your exact requirements at no extra charge. The duration of the course can be flexible depending on what you would like the course to cover and what your objectives are - the choice is yours!
Whilst Sean will organise training for as many delegates as you wish, he recommends that the number of attendees do not exceed 10. This ensures that EVERY delegate receives personal attention.
