Presentation Skills Workshop
Overview:
This workshop is designed to provide delegates with a comprehensive understanding of the core components and techniques that are essential for delivering excellent presentations to a range of audiences.
Learning Outcomes:
- Utilise a range of effective communication skills that will engage their audience
- Adequately prepare and plan a presentation, using the techniques provided, to ensure an effective delivery in a variety of situations
- Identify potential presentation pitfalls and know how to appropriately manage these to ensure a professional presentational standard is maintained
- Evaluate their audience needs and be able to adapt their presentation skills
- Evaluate all elements of their own current presentations skill level
Workshop content:
Planning and preparation:
- How to structure a presentation: Introduction / key message / review
- How to design your presentation to meet the needs and expectations of your audience
- What visual aids should you use? And how to use these for your advantage
- Recognise the need for accurate timing in presentation delivery and how to ensure this is achieved
Managing your audience:
- Identify potential pitfalls in relation to your interaction with your audience
- Identify solutions for coping with potentially difficult or unplanned situations during your presentation
Presenter integrity and credibility:
- To explore the importance of credibility when seeking to positively influence others
- Recognise the need for congruence – the need to believe in what you are communicating and holding conviction for this
- How to control your nerves and anxiety
- What are the required behaviours necessary to support the above?
Practical application:
Delegates will be tasked to prepare and deliver a 10 minute presentation to the workshop group. Delegates will be provided with several presentation options for this exercise.
The workshop will be supported with detailed handouts and e-resources.
Suitable for:
Anyone who involved in addressing meetings or making presentations.
Duration:
Full day
Cost:
£125 per person
We can also design and deliver bespoke workshops and training programmes to support individual business training needs as required.