Course Overview
The ability to give an interesting, informative and persuasive presentation is a skill critical for many of us needing to make others think and be inspired to take action. Whether you’re presenting in a formal or informal situation, this course will help you plan and present with confidence, and also provide you with the insight to evaluate your effectiveness and continually improve the delivery of your public speaking messages.
This course is ideal for
This course is ideal for those who wish to build their presentation and public speaking skills, especially for applications in business and workplace environments. Anyone required to make business presentations for both formal and informal situations will benefit.
- Practical techniques to properly prepare for your presentation.
- Understand different learning styles and how to accommodate for these.
- Improve your public speaking presence and overcome nerves to present with confidence.
- Handle question and answer time and effectively deal with difficult audience behaviours.
- Use visual aids such as PowerPoint appropriately to support your presentation.
- Improve your delivery through an increased awareness of body language, gestures, eye contact and vocal techniques.
- Evaluate the success of your presentation.
- How to make an effective presentation. Steps in preparing a presentation
- Prior preparation and planning prevents poor performance.
- Structuring your presentation
- The three phases of a well organised presentation.
- Know your audience
- The more you know about your audience and their needs, the better you can meet them!
- Supporting materials and visual aids
- Cater for different learning styles and improve your delivery by illustrating relationships between ideas.
- PowerPoint dos and don’ts
- How to maximise the effectiveness of this tool.
- Overcome your fear of public speaking
- The importance of remembering your strengths and positive thinking.
- Delivering your presentation
- A bright, outgoing approach will have a positive impact on you and your audience
- Body language
- Understanding the relationship between facial expressions, walking patterns, gestures and eye contact when presenting.
- Handling the question and answer period
- Encouraging audience participation.
- Dealing with difficult audience behaviours
- Tips and techniques.
- The value of evaluation If you ignore feedback, improvement will never happen.
