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£1,295
£1,295
Delivered Online or In-Person
Delivered at your location
UK Wide
Full day
All levels
In today's results-oriented, global working environment, the ability to create and deliver presentations effectively is a necessary skill set for people at all levels of an organization. Regardless of your role, it's important to know how to synthesize your ideas into a coherent and focused narrative, add visuals that support and reinforce your message, and deliver it in a way that resonates with your audience. In this highly interactive course, we will unpack and practice some of the tools and techniques used by top speakers and influencers all over the world.
In this engaging two-day course, you will plan, write, refine, practice, and deliver a presentation to the class. Your presentation will be filmed on both days, and you will leave the course with a flash-drive copy of your videos; participants of the virtual classroom workshop should be prepared to present via webcam. In addition to discovering and enhancing your own personal delivery style, you will learn how to create an overarching goal for your presentation and then organize and structure it for maximum impact. You'll gain insight into how to anticipate your audience's needs and tailor the content and delivery in a way that connects with them and sustains their attention and engagement. You will also learn skills that will help you control nervous energy, remain focused on and attuned to your audience, improvise under pressure, deal effectively with questions, and build a compelling call to action.
At the end of this program, you will be able to:
Construct an effective presentation goal statement, opening, body, and closing that connect with an audience
Analyze an audience's needs and style preferences, including relevant DiSC®-related elements
Deliver a complete criteria-based presentation that will persuade others
Align usage of visuals as well as verbal and non-verbal techniques to maximize the impact of your presentation
Introductions and social agreements
Course structure
Course goals and objectives
Opening activities
Video: 'The Art of Misdirection'
Setting your presentation goal
Writing a goal statement
Analyzing your audience
Applying the 'reality' test
Creating and strengthening supports
Structuring your presentation
5 components of an effective opening
Presentation body
Presentation closing
Write your presentation opening
Video: 'How to Tie Your Shoes'
Everything DiSC® introduction
Audience DiSC® Styles
Analyzing your audience
Further audience analysis
Delivery challenges: virtual and in-person
Keeping your audience engaged
Your body as your instrument
Verbal / paraverbal elements
Body stance and nonverbal communication
What are your 'tells?'
Staying attuned to your audience
Responding to questions
Review and edit your opening
Deliver your opening
Using images in your presentation
Guidelines for visual composition
Using questions to engage your audience
The power of the pause
Preparation
Delivery
Feedback
Opportunity to put into practice the program content and receive a video copy
What did we learn and how can we implement this in our work environment?
Your personal action plan