Purpose
To reinforce previously acquired learnings in participants and introduce both a structured model to their presentations and an array of advanced presentational practices to their style.
Objective
By the end of this training, participants will know and be able to put into practice a range of professionally-based techniques designed to make them excellent presenters.
Overview
This training – typically a seminar followed by a 1:1 coaching session for each participant – takes those with a basic knowledge of presenting to the next level. And it does it not simply by introducing learners to advanced content, but also by exposing them to concentrated, high-level practice.
Those attending are likely to be used to presenting at one-to-one encounters and meetings, to attending business functions as “the face of the company”, and to doing their share of public speaking in all its guises. They will also be keen to improve.
Intermediate Presentation Skills begins with each participant demonstrating her or his presentational style in a short, prepared piece.
Then the action moves on to a swift reminder of the Presentational Skills’ essentials – right mindset, right voice, right body language.
Next comes an intensive period of tuition devoted to the presentation practicalities headlined below. The more formal presentation confronts most of us in our business lives these days. The beauty of this advanced content is that it works equally well for all presentation tasks. With the aid of relevant film-clip footage, we focus on:
- Knowing your Outcome.
- Understanding Your Audience
- Anticipating Questions
- Building Rapport with Your Audience
- Setting out the Ground Rules
- Giving an Executive Summary of your Presentation
- Understanding the importance of State Change
- Finding the Right, Logical, Presentational Order
- Employing Concise and Plain Language
- Using Visual Aids
- Managing the Q and A
- Focusing on the Anatomy of Great Presentation Skills
