Advanced Presentation Skills

INTRODUCTION

The most important key to great leadership is great presentation. To be competent, a leader needs to focus on three elements: mission, people, and teamwork. Effective presentation skills impact all of these areas. If you want to inspire and influence people, win business, gain respect, or simply give clear, unambiguous messages, then you need this training course.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

Participants on training course will be able to:

• Inspire confidence, trust and admiration when presenting in front of colleagues, customers and VIPs
• Understand listener’s behavioural patterns and how to adapt to them
• Practice the most up-to-date presentation skills and be confident to use them in even the most stressful situations
• Use appropriate body language, voice and tone in order to create a positive and lasting first impression with every interaction
• Read the body language of your audience and adjust your delivery accordingly
• See conflict resolution as a challenge not a threat 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This Advanced Presentation Skills training course is helpful to:

• Anyone wanting to hone their presentation skills and develop their image
• Anyone seeking career advancement into the top echelons of leadership
• Anyone who would like to improve ability to present to groups
• Anyone who need to influence others, either socially or commercially
• Professionals who has to achieve a successful outcome from any meeting

TRAINING OUTLINE

Day 1 : Getting Started – Building Your and Their Confidence

• Making a powerful and lasting first impression
• The art of building your own confidence
• Step into another person’s shoes to appreciate their motivation
• Read body language to understand how others are thinking and responding
• Make an Ice-Breaker presentation
• Giving and taking constructive Feedback

Day 2 : Creating the Right Message

• Planning for the perfect presentation
• Audience focused SMART objectives
• Researching the audience and setting time related objectives
• Venue considerations and why they are so important
• Researching presentations
• Creating a ‘map’ for your audience
• Harnessing nerves in a creative way
• Key messages and clear structure

Day 3 : Using Powerful Language to Persuade

• What is NLP – A basic introduction
• Establishing Rapport
• Powerful Listening and Questioning Techniques
• Thinking Patterns
• The use of Metaphors and Humour
• Communicating to Persuade
• Using power language to convince others
• Communication Exercises

Day 4 : The Art and Science of Performance

• The importance of good eye contact in presenting
• Body language and assertiveness
• Stance and Alexander Technique
• The non-verbal impact of presentations
• Using the body to create impact
• The vocal skills of top presenters
• Increased emphasis, tonality and tonal marking
• The differing skills for small or platform presentations

Day 5 : Polishing Your Performance

• Visual aids, what are they and how they should be used
• Content and the message the audience receives
• How to influence an audience and handle questions with ease
• Putting it all together for balanced presentations
• The final presentations
• The XYZ of presenting
• Action planning