Sharpen your Presentation Skills

Length: 1-2 days

Participants learn how to effectively communicate with an audience. This performance-centred programme is for anyone who makes presentations as part of their work and where the importance of the presentation is directly related to their success.

Who Should Attend?

This course is for anyone who needs to improve their confidence and skill in making presentations. No matter what business you are in or at what level in the company you are the ability to communicate gives you an extra edge, a business advantage and enhances your ability to get and keep business. Most jobs now require the ability to make internal or external presentations. This course will make sure you are "match fit" when the opportunities arise

This course is for you if...

You have no meeting or presentation skills
You wish to improve your performance in the boardroom, at meetings, client briefings etc

How will you benefit:

Understand the audience's needs
Structure your content
Identify your strengths and weaknesses
Use your voice to best effect
Understand body language and what it says about you
Cope with nerves
Interact with the audience
Deal with questions and criticism
Use visual aids (particularly Microsoft PowerPoint)

Upon completion of this course participants will:

Understand the principles of spoken communication
Understand the importance of identifying audience's perceived needs and addressing them as you develop the presentation
Know how to prepare for, plan and structure a presentation
Know how to structure content - what to say and when
Be able to work to the basic formula that leads to success
Have a clear idea of how to give presentations/speeches more impact
Value and know how to use personal style to best advantage
Be able to use visual aids more effectively
Learn to work with notes or a full script
Understand the causes of stage fright and how to overcome it
Know how to use your voice to best effect for total communication
Have clear guidelines as to how to assess and improve a presentation
Have increased confidence when making presentations
Appreciate the importance of planning to guarantee professionalism
Learn to deal with questions

Course Methodology

We believe in using a training style that is both warm and reassuring and that builds on the strengths of participants to increase their levels of confidence.

As part of the practical element of the course, participants get opportunities to develop their talents allied to comprehensive feedback to allow them to build on their strengths and manage their limitations. Participants are recorded to allow them to develop confidence and learn from the feedback of others.

Practical Sessions - The Key to Success

The workshop requires each participant to bring along and make a short three-minute presentation on a subject they have prepared, ideally an organisational pitch or presentation that attempts to influence others.

Practice, Review and Critique

Constructive feedback and advice is given throughout the day seeking to build on the ability of the participant. This detailed feedback is considered one of the most important parts of this programme.

Visual Aids

The range and options available to support and enhance presentations are outlined to cover visual, hearing and feeling. How you use visual aids can set you apart from others and this course shows you how to use them imaginatively and effectively to support your messages. We show you how to avoid the problem areas of visual aids - where less is more.

Modern technology and how it can help you.
Increasing impact through images.
Making a complex message more understandable.