Advanced Presentation Skills
The Advanced Presentation Skills workshop will give participants skills that will make speaking in public less terrifying and more enjoyable. This workshop includes topics that participants can look forward to including: creating a compelling program, using various types of visual aids, and engaging the audience. Course content includes clarifying objectives, managing audience perceptions, establishing rapport, the importance of packaging, influencing skills, and building enthusiasm and commitment using positive vocal techniques to command your listeners’ attention, to influence their perception of your ideas and to communicate with greater impact.
The class discusses advanced techniques for the integration of verbal, nonverbal, and expanded communication skills to better enable class participants – to develop their own unique presentation style so that they can consistently deliver successful presentations
Business professionals – executives, managers, team leaders, sales and marketing personnel, even technical personnel – who want to elevate their presentation style to a higher level.
Upon completion of this programme, learners will be able to:
- Accurately assess your presentation skills and those of your colleagues.
- Identify and analyze your audience; assess your audience’s needs and how you plan to meet them.
- Prepare the structure of your presentation, including your objective, the main presentation points and their benefit to your audience, your call to action, and your persuasive techniques to convince your audience to act.
- Prepare and practice strategies for immediately engaging and establishing rapport with your audience.
- To present a persuasive closing that motivates your audience to immediately fulfill your call to action.
- List and integrate the five P’s of verbal communication – projection, pitch, pronunciation, pace, and pausing – into your own unique and compelling vocal delivery style.
- List and integrate the four P’s of nonverbal communication – posture, pantomime, position, and passion – into your own unique and compelling delivery style.
- Choose from a wide array of skills – questioning, listening, visualization, harmony, atmosphere – to deliver an audience-centered presentation designed to influence, persuade, and convince them to act.
- Effectively manage a question and answer session, and demonstrate intelligent responses to anticipated and unanticipated questions.
Using a number of techniques, practice developing your unique presentation style by integrating various communication skills to confidently deliver successful presentations.
Module One: Getting Started
- Icebreaker
- Workshop Objectives
Module Two: Creating the Program
- Performing a Needs Analysis
- Writing the Basic Outline
- Researching, Writing, and Editing
Module Three: Choosing Your Delivery Methods
- Basic Methods
- Advanced Methods
- Basic Criteria to Consider
Module Four: Verbal Communication Skills
- Listening and Hearing: They Aren’t the Same Thing
- Asking Questions
- Communicating with Power
Module Five: Non-Verbal Communication Skills
- Body Language
- It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It
Module Six: Overcoming Nervousness
- Preparing Mentally
- Physical Relaxation Techniques
Module Seven: Creating Fantastic Flip Charts
- Required Tools
- The Advantages of Pre-Writing
- Using Colors Appropriately
- Creating a Plan B
Module Eight: Creating Compelling PowerPoint Presentations
- Required Tools
- Tips and Tricks
- Creating a Plan B
Module Nine: Wow ‘Em with the Whiteboard
- Traditional and Electronic Whiteboards
- Required Tools
- Using Colors Appropriately
- Creating a Plan B
Module Ten: Vibrant Videos and Amazing Audio
- Required Tools
- Tips and Tricks
- Creating a Plan B
Module Eleven: Pumping it Up a Notch
- Make Them Laugh a Little
- Encouraging Discussion
- Dealing with Questions
Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
- Words from the Wise
- Review of Parking Lot
- Lessons Learned
- Completion of Action Plans and Evaluations