Complete Presentation Skills

Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives

What makes presentations memorable?

• How do people absorb information: auditory and visual sensory modes
• Understanding different learning and listening styles
• Innovative repetition: hearing the message in many forms
• Using the power of language and rhythm

Planning and preparation: your message and content

• Research, planning and preparation: getting ready to succeed
• The importance of indentifying a clear objective
• Understanding your audience's needs and concerns
• Building and shaping audience-focused context and content 

Structuring your presentation: achieving logic, coherence, narrative context and content

• Structuring your information in a logical, coherent and involving way
• Looking at a more imaginative structure, enabling the presenter to get clear messages across
• Practising and adapting key skills, techniques and tools for preparing and structuring presentations

Working on the narrative: making your words relevant and interesting for your audience

• Communicating your message by creating a logical, flowing, coherent narrative
• Gathering data from as many sources as possible: macro, micro, formal and informal
• Using stories and illustrations to make information familiar and relevant
• Making sure your narrative is audience-focused

Using visual aids to increase the impact, effectiveness and memorability of your presentation

• Approaches to designing and using powerful presentation aids to drive your message
• How to illustrate: deductive and inductive approaches
• How to use PowerPoint effectively to enhance a presentation and how to avoid over use

How to achieve gravitas and confidence in your presentation

• Pausing and pacing: developing the confidence to pause
• Varying your speed to hold attention
• Non-verbal communication: standing and gesturing to look confident and credible

Review of day one and objective setting for day two

Increasing your vocal energy

• Applying a dynamic use of voice and action in order to add interest and clarity to a presentation
• Practising vocal skills to give authority and projection to the voice: developing a more confident and convincing voice
• Learning how to use your voice to best effect: pronunciation, articulation, tone, volume, pitch and pace

Dealing with nerves and managing risks

• Coping with nerves: relaxation exercises, controlling your breathing
• Applying proven methods of turning speech anxiety into a positive force in a presentation
• Become as confident presenting in public as you are communicating in private

Involving your audience: the place of questions in a presentation

• What holds an audience's attention: keeping the audience engaged
• How to set up a question session and respond to questions concisely and confidently
• Questions and interruptions: deal successfully with questions and interruptions so that the objectives are enhanced

Ending your presentation with impact

• Making sure your presentation builds to a climax
• Leaving the audience with a final powerful phrase and a clear message

Practical implications: delivering your presentation

Participants will be able to use this time intensively to practise, give and receive feedback and practise some more.

To accelerate and embed the learning process you have the opportunity to be recorded on video and the learning will be reviewed with supportive feedback from the group and the trainer.

Planning for continued growth and development

• Preparing a concrete self-development action plan to strengthen, improve or modify your presentational skills
• Go away with your tailored template for further powerful presentations

End of training course