POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS
1/2 DAY LECTURE COURSE
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Having powerful presentation skills is essential to the success of today’s business professionals. Being able to convey your ideas, a report or customer information requires a combination of excellent writing, speaking and technology skills. Powerful Presentation Skills will train you on the communication essentials required for skillfully conveying your message whatever the presentation environment.
Through instructor-led review, experiential exercises and check lists, you will learn the critical elements of good communication within a presentation. You will be able to plan your presentation, analyze the audience and make effective choices of language and visual style that best suite your presentation objective. Learn how to get your audience’s attention and keep it with useful techniques and tips that you will practice in the course. Don’t take any aspect of your presentation or the logistics associated with it for granted. Feel confident that yours will be the powerful presentation that meets the objective. You will conduct a personal presentation assessment and partner with others to increase your competence as a communicator while helping others with your strengths.
This course is the basic theory and techniques required for building and honing effective presentation skills.
Combined with our other specific communication skills modules you will be able to customize your communication’s learning to fit your current needs.
Today’s competitive environment requires managers and leaders to be innovative, productive and efficient. Practiced and powerful presentation and communication skills are the key differentiator for success, individually and for your company. Powerful Presentations is a course designed to maximize your existing presentation skills as well as teach you new techniques for applying those skills in a real-world situation within your organization.
Course Outline
- The ABCD and Ease of Powerful Presentations
- Why present well?
- Presentation self-assessment
- Types of Presentations
- A – Audience analysis and Purpose - Preparing to Present
- Initial Preps
- Audience Analysis
- Identify Your Purpose and Objectives
- Research
- Technology Considerations
- B – Basic Organization
- Criteria to Organize Your Presentation
- Format
- Outline or Script
- Add Sparkle
- Exercise
- C- Communication Choices
- Choosing the Right Medium and Presentation Tools
- Choose an Appropriate Style
- Design to make your point
- Visual Design Exercise
- Other Support Materials
- Plan Logistics
- Practice, Practice, Practice
- Where’s the “Powerful?”
- Arrive Early and Network
- Adjust to Your Audience Networking
- Dealing with Presentation Anxiety
- Opening and Closing with Impact
- What to do when the Technology doesn’t? STUFF Happens
- Evaluation & Closure
- E- Evaluation
- Check in Throughout presentation
- Written
- Follow-Up
- Putting It Into Practice – The Final Presentation Exercise
- Course Summary
TARGET AUDIENCE
Powerful Presentations is an essential course for any employee, manager or executive who must consistently interact, present and sell concepts and ideas to others within and without their organization. This is a career-enhancing learning course that will help you understand the principles of presentation communication and apply them effectively in any medium. Through the combination of instructor-led discussions and practical application exercises, participants will master both the art and essential techniques of presenting.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- The essentials for a powerful presentation
- How to choose and apply the best presentation tools and evaluate their effectiveness
- By participating in instructor led discussion and “real-world” exercises
- To maximize your personal presentation style and effectiveness as a communicator
- The power and persuasiveness of targeted presentation with a purpose
- How to use subtleties of effective non-verbal techniques in a presentation
- Design secrets for your presentation visuals and how to apply them
- How to adjust your presentation techniques and styles for Small groups and Teams
- Guidelines for successful and appropriate language use
- To overcome and use presentation anxiety
- The types, etiquette and use of various presentation mediums
- To create and manage the presentation environment and communicate effectively in any situation
- To apply presentation essentials to other specific organizational tasks that will aid your career advancement and acceptance as an effective employee, manager or leader
PREREQUISITES
Communication Essentials Course