Duration: 1 day | Book this course
Cost: $650.00 + GST
This seminar will make participants better speakers in four ways. They will polish their public speaking and media presentation skills, how to craft better speeches and better handle meetings for which they are responsible. Lastly, they will greatly enhance their performance abilities with both the public and the media. Much of your success in making presentations has to do with knowing what to do and when to do it. This public speaking and presentation skills seminar will teach you specific techniques that ANYONE can use to create and deliver interesting, clear and persuasive presentations
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Microsoft® PowerPoint or equivalent
Who Should Take this Course
Anyone who must address meetings, make presentations, conduct training sessions and who needs to build skills and confidence in this vital area of business.
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:
- Overcome the anxiety and fear of speaking to groups of all sizes.
- Make themselves believable and credible in front of any audience.
- Create impressive and understandable visual aids.
- Spice up boring, dry or technical material. Properly use audio-visual equipment.
- Set-up the presentation room for maximum effectiveness.
- Keep interest during the entire session.
- Use simple techniques to deal with negative or hostile audiences.
- Say and do the right thing when something goes wrong.
Course Outline
WHAT MAKES A GREAT PRESENTATION?
CONTENT, DESIGN AND DELIVERY
The Process
The Situation
Purpose
People
Point
Place
PREPARING YOUR CONTENT
BEFORE YOU START YOUR RESEARCH
STARTING YOUR RESEARCH
Managing your Information
Keep your audience in mind
CONVERTING YOUR RESEARCH INTO AN OUTLINE
Determine the Outline Style
Group your Raw Data
Arrange into Outline Format
CONVERTING THE CONTENT INTO A SLIDE PRESENTATION
Use one concept per slide
Use key words and phrases
Stay within the 8 x 8 rule
Make your bullet points Consistent in Structure
Capitalize Properly
SLIDES
Determine the number of slides
Create Proper Titles
Agenda and Recap Slides
Adding Questions to Your Presentation
Using Graphics
Making Data into Charts and Tables
Adding graphics to Emphasize Bullets
THE THREE KEYS TO SETTING UP A GREAT SLIDE PRESENTATION
Layout
Consistency
Color
The presentation Environment and Logistics
Date and Time
Room Environment
Equipment
Presenter's Guide to Facilitation
Start Right
Keep Participants Engaged in your Presentation
Ways to Deal with Difficulties
How to handle tough situations
Getting Ready and Delivering your Presentation
Butterflies
Setting Up
First Impressions
Delivery
Presentation Technicalities
Handling Questions and Other Delivery Issues
Question Time
Dealing with disasters
Timing is everything
Close... and open... and close