Delivering Powerful & Charismatic Presentations

Delivering Powerful & Charismatic Presentations

Understanding How to Manage and Control Nervous Energy

Getting the Butterflies to Fly in Formation
- tips and techniques to help you feel mentally more positive

Learning to Relax
- practical strategies to aid relaxation and get the body under control

The Neutral Position
- how to adopt the correct position for the first 9 seconds
- 9 : 90 rule of speaking

Managing the Physical Impact of the Speaker

Body Posture and Stance
- ensuring a confident and authoritative stance

Hands and Movement
- positive ways to use space and general spatial awareness

The Importance of the Face
- practical exercises to reduce facial tension
- how to maintain eye contact, especially with a large audience

Generating an Exciting and Interesting Voice

Breathing
- how to achieve rib swing - developing the technique of breath control
- breathing exercises to help sustain the voice

Vocal Variety
- techniques to increase the variety of pitch in the voice
- developing a varied pace of delivery
- why and how to use pauses
- the ‘E’ word and its importance

Volume and Projection
- exercises to produce volume and increase resonance

Putting the Message Together

Audience Analysis and Objective Settings
- checklists to help analyse different sorts of audience
- considering the W.I.F.M approach to material generation
- how to set realistic and achievable objectives for a presentation

Structuring a Presentation (i)
- the importance of attention-getting openings
- suggestions on how to get started
- the law of primacy
- how to generate material
- the star diagram to help formulate key points

Structuring a Presentation (ii)
- closing the talk
- law of recency
- where to place the question and answer session

Key Ways to Introduce Variety
- structuring the main body
- use of humour
- anecdotes, comparisons and analogies
- sign-posting and mini summaries
- how to link effectively

Use of Notes
- evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of alternative options
- how to use notes effectively
- the negative effect of using visual aids as a prompt
- introduction to the “Grid”

Generating Eye-catching Visuals

Why Should Visuals be Used?
- the objective of a visual
- when should they not be used
- what options are available

Generating Visually
- design points for exciting visuals
- the 3 ‘Bs’ of visual design
- landscape versus portrait

Handling Visuals
- the 5 part handling strategy
- using a pointer
- how to re-focus the audience
- visuals used as handouts

Handling the Discussion Period

Different Types of Questions
- 8 questioner types
- understanding the motivation behind questioners’ behaviour
- tactics to encourage questions at the start of the discussion period

Handling Strategies
- neutralising aggressive people
- managing the awkward kind of questioner
- handling multiple questions
- how to cope if you do not know the answer
- how to manage questions when they occur during the presentation

Making the Emotional Connection
- the inside influence: how our beliefs, values, attitudes and opinions impact on our behaviour and communication
- Values Driven Communication – how to connect emotionally with a group of people
- the components of charisma