Powerful Presentations Skills – 3 Day Workshop
You have one chance at making the big sale, presenting a revolutionary idea to management, or motivating your staff to higher efficiency. How will you create an informative, clear, and visually unforgettable presentation? Do you have the skills needed to deliver your material with confidence and power? This three day intensive workshop will not only guide you to preparing outstanding content, but also teach you the skills needed to delivering with power, grace, and persuasion. Such skills will not only be demonstrated, but each individual will be assisted in improving their weaknesses and highlighting their strengths. See below for course outline…
Course Outline
Day 1
THE PROBLEMS AND GOALS OF PRESENTING
- Challenges of presenting
- Personal short presentations
- Identifying needs
- 40-20-40 Rule for success
PREPARING FOR A PRESENTATION
- Identifying your purpose informational vs informative
- Identifying your audience and knowing what to do with that information
- Planning & organizing techniques – mind mapping & brainstorming
- Grouping information into key points
- Cultural Approaches to Presentations
- Structure of a good presentation
OPENING AND CLOSING YOUR PRESENTATION
- Making a good first impression and drawing attention to your topic
- Highlighting the benefit for audience
- Closing with a summary
- Selling your idea
ADDING IMPACT TO OPENING AND CLOSING
- Connecting with the audience
- Grabbing your audience’s attention while drawing attention to your topic
- Inspiring the audience with an impact conclusion
GUIDING YOUR LISTENINERS
- Understand effective ways to structure your presentation though the process of ‘signposting’
- Use key expressions to help you recover from any communication issues you experience in your presentation.
ROLE PLAY and FEEDBACK
DAY 2
MAKING SALES PRESENATIONS
- Develop appropriate language structures for persuasive proposals
- Introduce the appropriate tense structures for predicting and describing future possibilities
- Develop confidence in making proposals to all audiences
VISUAL POWER
- The importance of visuals to a powerful presentation
- Learn rules of effective visuals
- Identify mistakes in the PPTs they are currently using
- Consolidate the rules of good PPTs by looking at case studies of good and bad visuals
- Be able to make effective PPTs for their specific job functions
- Advantages of various types of visuals
USING YOUR VOICE
- Understand how to effectively apply key voice techniques such as stress, intonation, articulation
- Apply pausing techniques to sound more natural
- Apply chunking techniques to improve the impact of your message
- Develop an appropriate speaking speed when giving presentations
USING YOUR BODY
- Understand the importance of body language
- Know how to use their body to influence their message
- Know basic Do’s and Don’ts of Body Language
- Identify signals sent by the audiences Body Language
- Control signals being sent by your Body Language
DAY 3
INTERPRETING DATA
- Know various ways of interpreting figures
- Choose the best option for interpreting figures for the presentations they give
- Learn language associated with describing trends accurately
- To not overburden their graphs, charts, etc with needless information
DESCRIBING VISUALS
- Know how to effectively introduce and highlight key points on your visual
- Learn language structures for describing visuals
READING YOUR AUDIENCE
- Understanding the signals that your audience sends and knowing what to do with that information
DEALING WITH QUESTIONS
- Learn how to effectively close your presentations
- Develop techniques for dealing with difficult questions and questioners
- Build confidence to interact with an audience and handling questions
ROLE PLAY AND VIDEO FEEDBACK
