Present with Power & Impact
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Presentation Skills Training Benefits & Deliverables:
- Be a more effective communicator with presentation skills training
- Use voice, action & body language to add power and impact with presentation skills training
- Gain confidence in making presentations
- Increase the dynamics and effectiveness of your presentations style
- Deliver a message that is both clear and appropriate to any audience with presentation skills training
- Turn performance anxiety into performance energy with presentation skills training
- Apply the best steps for planning and making a presentation
- Use the motivational cycle to plan presentations that create agreement
- Understand the differences between presenting to technical and non-technical audiences
- Adapt language, jargon and ideas to tailor your presentation to your audience
- Overcome nervousness and discomfort to appear more confident with presentation skills training
- Use a variety of presentational modes to handle different types of presentations
- Learn how to project your voice and use pauses to dramatize your point
- Select and design PowerPoint support that captures and holds attention
- Manage the physical setting of your presentation
- Confidently handle questions and/or objections from your audience
Course Outline:
I. Develop and Organize a More Powerful Presentation
- Identify the most common types of presentations
- Define the purpose of your presentations
- Anticipate and meet your audience’s needs
- Identify the outcome you’d like from your presentation
- Structure and plan a well balanced presentation
- Create user-friendly presentation outlines and notes you can speak from
- Learn the most effective ways to practice and rehearse your presentations
II. Increase the Impact of your Presentation Skills
- Learn the most important characteristics and qualities of a good presenter
- Identify and assess your current presentations skills and abilities
- Develop an individual action plan for improvement
- Learn the keys to maintaining the attention of your audience
- Take advantage of group dynamics and different room setups
- Anticipate, avoid, and handle equipment problems
- Reduce stress, nerves and speaker’s anxiety
- Use humor more effectively in your presentation
III. Use More Powerful Verbal & Nonverbal Communication
- Build a comfortable rapport with your audience
- Apply dynamic use of your voice and action to add interest
- Turn speech anxiety into a positive force in a presentation
- Balance style and substance more comfortably
- Send more powerful nonverbal gestures and messages
- Use more powerful illustrations, analogies and stories to get your point across
- Use more effective audience participation techniques to get and keep their interest
- Become a more active and effective listener
- Think on your feet and respond to questions more comfortably
- Handle objections politely and tactfully
- Guide discussions and facilitate information sharing more successfully
IV. Choose the Right Visual Aids to Add Impact to Your Presentation
- Decide when and if your presentation requires visual aid support
- Learn the best use and purpose of visual aids
- Don’t deliver ‘Death by PowerPoint’
- Maximize the power and impact of PowerPoint presentations
- Increase your effectiveness when using flip charts
- Know when and how to use hands-outs and other support materials
- Use the best room set ups to increase the power and impact of your presentations