Duration: 2 days (13 hours)
This workshop is suitable for anyone who is new to presenting or wishes to develop their skills when presenting to groups.
The workshop is highly practical, with a number of opportunities to deliver prepared and off-the-cuff presentations, alongside constructive feedback on your presentation delivery.
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Deliver presentations with clarity, confidence and conviction
- Prepare a range of effective presentations
- Manage your nerves in a variety of ways
- Handle different types of questions authoritatively
- Use visual effects to best effect
- Delivery of pre-prepared 10-15 minute presentations, there will be several opportunities over the 2 days
- Feedback from colleagues and your facilitator
- What questions to ask yourself before designing and delivering a presentation
- Audience awareness
- Different presentation formats
- Content generation techniques
- Planning and designing structure of presentations using a variety of techniques
- Preparing a real-life presentation for delivery
- How to deliver with clarity, confidence and conviction
- Communication skills for presenting
- Tips and techniques to hold an audience’s attention
- Similarities and differences
- How to best deliver presentations as a team
- Practical application and feedback
- Identifying why nerves occur
- Identify your level of ease/nervousness when presenting
- Techniques to overcome nerves
- When to take questions
- Question handling strategies
- Methods to handle challenging questions
- Practical application and feedback
