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Presentation Skills

Duration:  1 day |Book this course
Cost: $450.00 + GST

Course Description

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

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

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:

  1. Overcome the anxiety and fear of speaking to groups of all sizes.
  2. Make themselves believable and credible in front of any audience.
  3. Create impressive and understandable visual aids.
  4. Spice up boring, dry or technical material. Properly use audio-visual equipment.
  5. Set-up the presentation room for maximum effectiveness.
  6. Keep interest during the entire session.
  7. Use simple techniques to deal with negative or hostile audiences.
  8. Say and do the right thing when something goes wrong.

Course Outline

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

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