Professional & Effective Presentations
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- Early Bird: $674.10
- Normal: $738.30
- Members: $631.30
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Your presentation skills can make a difference between success and failure when you are trying to sell to a client, propose new ideas to management or communicate changes to colleagues. Yet, many professionals find giving presentations to be one of their biggest challenges.
This course aims to give you useful tips and techniques, which are fundamental to ensure your success. Learn how to develop and organise content in interesting and engaging ways that will help you communicate your message with clarity and effectiveness. Learn ways to manage presentation fears, master non-verbal techniques to deliver with poise and power, and manage Q&A sessions confidently.
This course will help you to deliver every presentation professionally and effectively.
After the workshop, you will be able to:
- plan, organise and prepare an effective presentation
- deliver presentations with increased confidence and impact
- manage question-and-answer sessions effectively
What you will learn
Critical elements for a successful presentation
- ABCDE essentials for success
Designing presentations with audience in mind
- Audience analysis
- Audience types and needs
- Implications for presenter
Making content more interesting and engaging
- Establish presentation objectives/purpose
- Select the right structure
- Enliven serious, boring content
Creating impactful and engaging slides
- Slide design guidelines
- Current design practices
- Other visual aid techniques
Converting presentation fears to peak performance
- Techniques to convert nervous energy for peak performance
- Enhance credibility by starting right
- Dressing for success
- Eliminate verbal tics
Using your body language to augment your message
- Mannerisms and movement
- Sit or stand during presentations
Using your voice to deliver more convincingly
- Managing your voice
- Keys to speaking convincingly
Handling audio-visual equipment with finesse
- Proper ways and tips to handle audio-visual equipment
Managing difficult Q & A sessions
- Leverage on Q & A
- Steps to answering questions
- Strategies for handling difficult questions
Putting learning into practice
Who Should Attend?
Anyone who makes presentations as part of their job roles or anyone who wishes to improve his/her presentation skills.
Methodology
Participants are guided through practical steps of the topic with a combination of short lectures, group discussions, video, practice, demonstration, group and individual presentations.
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Powerpoint/Mac Pages software
- A laptop with Microsoft Powerpoint/Mac Pages software installed (to be brought by participant)
- An individual 5-minute practice presentation