Duration : 01 Day
Course Overview:
Presentation skills refer to present clearly and engagingly in order to pass your message across the audience, especially in a business. They also refer to all the qualities you need to create and deliver a clear and effective presentation. Whether you’re looking to enhance your public speaking, business writing, or data analysis skills, our specially designed course will help you develop the necessary skills required to engage with your target audience with powerful presentations. Presentation Skills Training will be taught by our highly experienced and expert instructor who will help you to deliver successful presentations in front of the public
Course Objective:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- List the main causes of boring and ineffective presentations and ways to overcome them
- Prepare for a presentation using a systematic and easy to follow approach
- Project the right verbal and non-verbal characteristics essential in powerful presentations
- Pinpoint the main reasons that lead to Public Speaking Anxiety (PSA) and ways to eliminate them prior to presenting
- Deal with any nerves or stage fright
- Use the most commonly available visual aids to support their presentation and make it visually appealing
Target Audience:
All those who wish to improve their presentation skills to a noticeable level using a strictly hands-on approach. The workshop-type course is particularly helpful for people who have to conduct sales, business development or periodic presentations to senior management.
Course Outline:
Introduction
- Difference between presenting and PowerPoint clicking
- Why most presentations fail to leave an impact
- Attributes of an effective presentation
- Importance of preparation
- Clicker and why you should be aware of her presence
- Murphy and how he can ruin your presentation
- Overcoming boring pitches and presentations
Preparing for a presentation
- Gathering the raw data
- The various sources of data and presentation content
- How much information should you begin with
- Filtering the information
- Triple S rule
- Deciding on time allocation: how will you know how much time you need
- Formula of substance, style and support and its impact on the way you present
- The hamburger analogy: why content of substance should not be expanded
- When to focus on style and when to enhance support
The framework of an effective presentation
- Opening with a win: how to win audience’s attention
- Preview: what should be mentioned in the outline
- Key points of a presentation
- Recapping before the finish: common tips and pitfalls
- Closing with a bang
Body language in a presentation
- The hands, legs and the eyes
- To move or to stay put
- Tips for effective body positioning
- Guidelines for animating the legs and hands
- Characteristics of captivating verbal delivery
- Avoiding clichés and euphemisms
- The dangers of smart casual
- Dress and appearance: what are the rules
Public Speaking Anxiety (PSA)
- Reasons why most people get nervous
- Adrenalin and its effect on presentations
- Dealing with PSA: short and long term solutions
- What do great presenters do
Visual aids
- Use of objects and props for visual impact
- Hand-outs: when and how to circulate them
- Secrets and techniques for using flip charts
- Pictures and images: the trends today
- PowerPoint: what every presenter should know
Module 1: An Emotional Intelligence Primer
- Opening activity – Importance of emotional intelligence.
- What is emotional intelligence?
- Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence Framework.
- How Emotionally Intelligent are you? – Self-Assessment.
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