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Presentation Skills Programme


There is no greater secret weapon in business than to know how to persuade people of your ideas and mission. Learn how to "own" the power to get your message across.

You will make people understand you, make them enjoy and remember your presentation, produce better results and make more money - if you learn the secrets of being a master speaker.

Remember, being a great speaker can be a learned skill - not just a trait you are born with.

Presentation Skills Training Objectives

  • How to work with large or small groups
  • Adapting material to suit the audience
  • Creative and unusual approaches
  • Rehearsing a high stakes presentation
  • Refresh current skills and materials
  • Handling nightmare scenarios
  • Increasing flair and finesse

The presentation skills programme includes:

Introduction

  • What makes a speaker nervous and how can they relax?

Preparation and framework of the presentation

  • Putting shape and form on the presentation
  • Essential steps in presentation
  • Influencing your audience
  • Visual aids and setting

Handling Q and A

  • Initiating discussion
  • Anticipating questions and preparing effective answers
  • Handling aggressive questioners
  • Voice technique and words

Body language

  • The power of "non verbal" communication
  • Gesture and stance

First Presentations

  • Delegates make their first presentation of the day to camera.
  • Feedback and Individual style
  • The difference between how we think we are doing and the reality  of how we really are doing
  • Body language


The psychology of presenting

  • A series of short exercises designed to stretch people's awareness and capacity:
  • Presence. An exercise in audience contact
  • Passion. An exercise in the use of passion to communicate
  • Talking up and talking down
  • Turning points. An exercise in using personal material to produce empathy and strong feeling in an audience


Prepared Presentations

  • How audiences and presenters interact
  • How to make use of that interaction
  • The real reasons for presenting
  • Ways of getting ideas across that are entertaining and stimulating
  • The relationship between nervous energy and expressive capacity
  • A reinforcement of the reasons for presenting

Presentations in a meeting setting

Here we look at the dynamics of 'working a table'. This will include the different types of questions you can ask, how to work the 'geography' of a table, how to open things up or close them down.

Use of media and structure

This exercise that looks at the various media available during a presentation.

Presenting to Different Levels of Understanding

Here we look at how to assess the levels of understanding within the audience, and deliver information with varied emphasis, without appearing to patronise.

30 Second Presentation

Each delegate will work with a model that allows people to put across a powerful presentation in 30 seconds.

This is a terrific tool for strongly influencing people when under pressure.

Handling Difficult Questions

Techniques for:

  • Staying 'On the front foot'
  • Remaining confident and professional when you don't know the answer
  • Practising saying you don't know
  • Referring people to others
  • Being able to say what you do know
  • Treating each question as an opportunity, rather than a missile