Complete Presentation Skills

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Maximum 10 participants 2-day interactive training and practice
London - 22-23 Sep 2010
London £895 + VAT

Complete Presentation Skills in brief:

This presentation skills training provides you with the essential tools and techniques needed to deliver compelling, persuasive and impressive presentations. During the two days of presentation skills training you will work on your specific, business-related presentation, receive feedback on the effectiveness of your delivery style and analysis via trainer feedback and group discussion.

  • Develop the structure, flow and content of your presentation
  • Make your presentation memorable, relevant and valuable
  • Use PowerPoint to complement and illustrate what you say
  • Build your style, confidence and ability to handle different audiences
  • Access incisive, constructive trainer feedback and see yourself perform

If ever there were a training opportunity that delivered immediate benefits across every aspect of an individual's life at work, it is this course. Over 10,000 managers and directors have benefited from the transformational impact this training provides.

Why? Because in two days, our trainers help new, experienced or struggling presenters to develop real confidence, poise and impact - and competent presenters to achieve a level of excellence that exceeds their expectations.

This event is CPD accredited.

Designed for:

Complete Presentation Skills is designed for Managers and Directors, Partners, Senior Leaders, Team Leaders, Fee-earners, Sales Professionals, Anyone in a key internal or external communications role that would benefit from presentation skills training.

Training highlights:

  • Learn how to use your energy, voice and body to enhance presence, reputation and power
  • Develop your own professional presentational style
  • Transformational opportunity to fine-tune verbal/non-verbal behaviour
  • Become as confident presenting in public as you are when communicating in private
  • Practise using a full range of visual aids to enhance your message
  • Identify and enhance your strengths and eliminate presentational weaknesses
  • Apply the four question model to create powerful, audience-focused presentations and messages - who, why, what, how
  • Ensure you retain attention, enthuse people from start to finish and captivate audiences throughout

The Programme

Day One

09:30
Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives
09:45
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
10:30
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 
11:15
Coffee
11:30
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
12:30
Lunch
13:30
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
14:30
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
15:30
Tea
15:45
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
16:30
Review of day one and objective setting for day two

Day Two

09:30
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
10:30
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
11:30
Coffee
11:45
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
12:45
Lunch
13:45
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
14:30
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.
16:00
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
16:30
End of training course

Client testimonials

An excellent course - an excellent trainer. It was useful to see oneself on screen and the feedback I received was fair, kind, constructive and, overall, excellent.

—Bob Gliddon, SVB Holdings plc

Very positive and fulfilling experience - a strong well-taught course

—Paul Evans, Parliamentary Assistant, The Holocaust Educational Trust

The most relevant aspects of the course were the practical exercises with personal feedback. The feedback received was very good, constructive and strong without being destructive.

—Aileen Lamden, Director, The Adam Smith College

Excellent trainer. Able to accommodate everyone's learning style and needs. Good feedback - a natural facilitator.

—Steve Myhill, Professional Development Advisor, Cabinet Office

Very good individual attention within a group session. A fantastic course

—Marion Self, Agronomist, The Arable Group

Venue details

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For further information on the training facilities we use, please call us on +44 (0)20 8371 7010

Trainers

Our People

Amanda Sieff

Our People

Kate Spiro

Our People

Deborah Lindsay

Our People

Sarah Sherborne

Amanda Sieff is a Senior Consultant with JSB specialising in presentational skills, meetings skills and pitching for business. She also works with individuals on the content and delivery of major conference speeches. Amanda has extensive experience of working at all levels from junior support staff to senior management and works closely with her clients to develop communication skills programmes for specific roles, as well as to meet team needs.

Kate Spiro is a senior communication skills consultant and trainer specialising in presentation skills. She has worked with JSB since 1987. Kate has conducted training workshops throughout the UK, working at all levels, from middle management through to senior executives.

Kate`s international experience spans: workshops in the USA; a series of training programmes in Holland and Germany; training for lawyers in Jersey; a leading pharmaceutical company in Switzerland and leading bankers in Luxembourg.

After training with Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Kate became a professional actor and has appeared extensively on television, in radio and in the theatre. She has worked with the Royal National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has appeared in the West End and on Broadway. Kate has also featured on numerous corporate training videos as presenter and voice-over.

Deborah Lindsay is a senior presentation and voice-production trainer who has worked with JSB since 1986. As a trainer to small groups of executives, Deborah provides training for both In-company programmes and Public courses. She also rehearses clients for specific presentations on a one-to-one basis. Deborah has extensive experience, particularly in the finance and professional sectors, and has trained lawyers, bankers and accountants in America and on the Continent, as well as in the UK.

A former stage manager with the Royal Shakespeare Company and a former actor, Deborah is a graduate of Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, and was trained by Greville Janner to teach presentation skills.

Sarah Sherborne designs and delivers presentation and communication skills training programmes for all levels of management, including advanced skills development courses for senior managers. She has worked with a wide range of organisations spanning all sectors of industry.

After graduating in Drama and Theatre Arts from Birmingham University, and attending drama school, Sarah pursued an acting career and has had numerous stage, film, radio and television roles.

Sarah also works as a voice coach and is an experienced specialist voice-over artist for the broadcast, corporate, education and publishing markets.

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Testimonials

“The most relevant aspects of the course were the practical exercises with personal feedback. The feedback received was very good, constructive and strong without being destructive.”

— Aileen Lamden, Director,
The Adam Smith College

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