Every time you present to someone it forms an impression, giving you the potential for gain or loss. Over time, if you maximise the number of positive impressions you leave when you present, it will give you an edge in getting others to act, and in producing the outcomes you want.

This presentation skills training course will enable you to be perceived as articulate and competent – through how you plan and deliver presentations. You’ll learn how to handle presentation fears and nerves and how to understand your audience. You’ll learn how to open and ‘hook’ an audience to listen, and how to choose, plan and structure your content. You’ll learn how to handle Q&A and how to make a memorable impression, and when and how to use (and not use) PowerPoint.

The philosophy of course is that a presentation can take many forms - from a one-on-one presentation, to a small meeting presentation, to a boardroom presentation and to a large audience presentation. The content is applicable to all these environments.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• improve your skill in handling presentation fears
• utilise techniques in understanding your audience and in forming the key message you want the audience to retain and/or act upon
• appropriately choose presentation content
• structure a presentation
• use a variety of methods to open a presentation, connect with an audience and close powerfully
• look and sound confident, and be perceived as articulate
• better handle Q&A
• identify the key idea/technique(s) you need to develop after the course to reinforce your new learning.

Content

• How to handle presentation fears and nerves
• The Open-Middle-Close structure to use for any presentation
• How to understand your audience and choose your content
• How to use your audience understanding to form your key messages you want the audience to retain and/or act upon
• How to structure your presentations
• How to open and connect with an audience, and close powerfully
• How to look and sound confident
• How to handle Q&A
• When and how to use, and not use, PowerPoint

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