Presentation Skills for Beginners

Effective presentation skills for professional and personal success

Nowadays many people in the business world are expected to make presentations. Yet, without the confidence and skills required, the outcome often results in lack of clarity, engagement, and missed opportunities. Whether someone needs to speak at a meeting, at a partnership forum, at a conference, is involved in training activities, needs to present expert knowledge to others, or simply inform, developing effective presentation skills are a key success factor in building confidence, learning to influence and increasing career opportunities.


Objectives

This presentation skills course is perfect for anyone who would like to build their confidence in front of an audience and learn the foundations of preparing and structuring an effective presentation.


Suitable for

Anyone who has to give presentations within or outside of an organization, and has little or no experience of public speaking or presenting. Managers, supervisors, partners, team leaders and sales people.



Course Description

This course contains a lot of practical exercises to build group rapport, warm the voice, learn to relax and overcome the nerves, and start building your presentation skills. It is designed for people who have no or little experience of public speaking and presenting and want to

• learn the foundations of preparing and structuring an effective presentation
• build confidence in front of an audience

The session will conclude with a general feedback session where tutor will provide individual feedback to help delegates identify future areas of development.



What will I get out of it?

• A supportive environment where you can go at your pace
• Tools to control nerves and deal with the fear of public speaking
• Techniques to capture the audience attention from the start
• Ways to plan and prepare your presentation effectively
• How to set a clear purpose in your presentation to maximise its outcome
• Learning to feel confident and natural in front of an audience
• Experience of presenting to a small group
• More confidence in your ability to speak in public
• The satisfaction of being able to make quick progress and enjoy your public speaking experience

Additionally delegates will receive feedback from their peers and the trainer regularly throughout the workshop to help them identify future areas of development in their presentation skills.



Course Outline

Introduction
- Getting to know each other
- Warm up exercises


Dynamics of effective presentations
- What makes or breaks a presentation


Preparing yourself to speak/present
- Dealing with nerves
- Adopting/Developing a confident look/impression
- Building confidence
- Warming the voice



Planning your presentation
- Setting objectives for the presentation
- Identifying audience requirements


Preparing content/ structure/material
- Generating and organising ideas
- Structuring content in a clear and concise manner
- Creating a strong opening
- Defining key messages
- Closing with impact


Putting it together
- Presentation practice
- Presentation evaluation and feedback
- Personal action plans


Conclusion
- General group feedback
- End of course evaluations