COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the Effective Presentation Skills Training Course, participants will be able to:
- Plan presentations being mindful of the audience
- Create clear-cut objectives for the presentation
- Assess factors to construct presentations to deliver key ideas
- Keep audience attention to have an enhanced introduction with attention-grabber techniques
- Develop efficient slides, visual aids, and handouts
- Learn methods, tools, and techniques for effective presentations
- Learn relaxation and destress techniques
- Understand the techniques of non-verbal communication
- Develop body styles and have a confident body language
- Learn how to improve the quality of the voice
- Deal with challenging questions during and post-presentation
- Understand the concepts of motivation and positive influence toward compelling actions
COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1
- Know Your Audience
- Plan your Presentation
- Be Organised
- Technology- The Importance
- Presentation Formation
- Setting clearly defined Objectives
- Audience Analysis
- Importance of Openings and Closings
- Logistics and Venue
- Adapting yourself to the presentation space in advance
Module 2
- Drafting your Presentations
- Understanding the purpose of your presentation
- Gathering substance and content for the presentation
- Building the subject matter
- Presentation of the presentation
- Designing the presentation
- Practise, self-rehearsals, and improvising
- Controlling the space and environment
Module 3
- The relation between Preparation, Relaxation, and Stress
- Confidence and Control
- Transforming nervousness to enthusiasm
- Breathing exercises and nervousness
- Psychology and Chemistry of stress and fear
- Body Language
- Tips to cope with nerves
- The posture of the body and mind
- Eye Contact
Module 4
- Presentation Contents
- Subject and substance
- Types of presentations
- Equipment and Venue
- Creative Ideas – Brainstorming and Mind-mapping
- Innovation and the dare to drive ideologies
- Materials, props and visual aids
- Exercises and case studies
- Video and sound clips
- Statistics, Surveys, and Diagrams
- Quotations, jokes, stories, and analogies
- Stories, Picture and animation illustrations
Module 5
- Audience Participation
- The audience needs and addressing general crises
- Straw polls
- Inviting a volunteer
- Asking the audience to do something or engage
- Prizes, awards and recognizing people and their achievements
- Gamification
- Recommendation of Books
- Icebreakers and games- Knowing each other
- Anticipating audience questions
- Know your subject knowledge and reference points
- Notes Arrangement- cue cards, sheet notes
Module 6
- Body and Structure of the Presentation- Importance
- Presentation Structure – Sections, Order, Headings
- Presentation Body- Introduction, content, Closing
- Principle of Repetition and the human mind
- Points of Interest and early impact during Introductions
- Speaking and Thinking like the audience and their profiles
- Building trust, impression and credibility
- Time Management
- Fall-backs, Plan-B and Contingency plans
- Dress rehearsals, feedbacks, Refining the structure
Module 7
- Vocal Image and Impression
- Qualities of the Effective Voice
- Voice control and volume
- Improvising on Articulation and language
- Vocal variety and modulation
- Developing Significance with voice modulation
- Impactful voice
- Matching body movements with voice
- Encouraging participants to be vocal
- Types of Vocals
- Handling the soreness of voice and vocal cords
- Noise, sound, and chaos
Module 8
- Common Mistakes during Presentations
- Breathing Fast or Holding your breath
- Unacceptable facial expressions
- Lacklustre Visualization
- The Uses and Abuses of Visual Aids
- Talking too fast and neutralizing accent
- Too much material in too short of a time
- Admitting you know everything
- Apologizing for mistakes, words, or actions