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Powerful presentation skills (In-House)

Powerful presentation skills (In-House)

By The In House Training Company

  • 30 Day Money Back Guarantee
  • Completion Certificate
  • 24/7 Technical Support

Highlights

  • Delivered Online or In-Person

  • Delivered at your location

  • UK Wide

  • Full day

  • All levels

Description

This very practical workshop has a simple objective: to help you prepare, design and deliver memorable and high-quality presentations.

This programme will help you:
  • Use a proven, structured tool-kit when designing and developing presentations
  • Benefit from short cuts and best practice when designing and using Powerpoint presentations
  • Select the right information, examples, exercises and activities - and use them well
  • Prepare and structure a presentation or session appropriate to the audience, and to best achieve your objectives
  • Maintain audience or group interest
  • Develop and practise presentation skills to improve your voice tone, speech power and body language
  • Use practical methods to control nerves and anxiety - develop higher levels of confidence and credibility
  • Command a room, hold attention and create a high impact

1 Introduction

  • Personal objectives
  • Key messages and learning objectives of the workshop

2 Presentation skills

  • What does good look like?
  • Exercise: Characteristics of high/low impact presentations
  • Presenting yourself as a 'winner'
  • The energy / attitude model
  • Exercise: Being a winner

3 Preparation skills - eight steps to preparing a great presentation, plus Powerpoint tips

•The magic circle
• How to 'assume the role' when presenting
• The eight steps
• Step 1 - develop your objectives
- The five questions that you must answer before preparing your presentation
- Defining your objectives and outcomes
- Creating a first draft
- Step 1 exercise
• Step 2 - analyse your audience
- Doing your homework: audience, event, venue
- Developing a pre-event check-list
- Methods and means for researching your audience
- Step 2 exercise
• Steps 3 and 4 - structure the main body of your presentation and state the main ideas
- Ways to structure your presentation for maximum impact
- Balancing and managing content and topics
- Organising your information: 6 options and methods
- Your 'one main point' and creating a 30-second summary
- Steps 3 and 4 exercises
• Step 5 - decide on supporting information, using the toolkit
- Making your case convincing: ways to support your claims
- Selecting and using relevant and interesting examples
- Quotes, case studies and printed material
- Presenting statistics, tables and graphs
- Ways of maintaining visual interest
- Transitions and links, creating a 'golden thread'
- Step 5 exercise: Creating compelling stories and anecdotes
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• Step 6 - create an effective 'opening'
- Claiming the stage and creating a good first impression
- The three most powerful ways of opening a presentation
- The five elements of a strong opening
- Step 6 exercise: Participants work individually to prepare an opening, focusing on
personal introduction, and then deliver to the group, with structured feedback
• Step 7 - develop transitions
- Step 7 exercise / examples
• Step 8 - create an effective close
- Signalling and sign-posting; the importance of, and how to do it effectively
- Five ways to close a presentation successfully
- Step 8 exercise / examples
• Presentation design and Powerpoint
- An interactive review of participants' own real-life past presentations and advanced tips
and techniques on using Powerpoint effectively

4 Facilitation skills

  • The three main types of group activity - triads, teams and main group
  • How to select the right activity, define the objectives, set it up and run the debrief
  • Using energisers - with examples
  • Exercise: Dealing with 'difficult' behaviours
  • Exercise: Working in triads, design and deliver

5 Tips and tricks: presentation and facilitation

  • 10 reasons why facilitation fails
  • Five golden rules for success
  • Defining the session goals and the facilitation plan
  • Open and closed questions - why and when to use
  • Using a 'car park' to manage unresolved issues
  • Using AV aids - tips and tricks
  • Exercises: Including participants working in pairs to prepare a short section form of one of their own presentations

6 Putting it all together

  • Summary of key learning points
  • Action plan

About The Provider

The In House Training Company

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