Advanced Presentation Skills & Personal Image Branding

Course details

Participants introduced and their objectives clarified.
Course objectives outlined. This course is about communicating clearly and understandably in a presentation situation. The aim of the course is to give each delegate the understanding of what makes a good presentation.

09.30 Recording of 10 x 5 minute presentations

Each participant will come with a pre-prepared 5 minute Presentation. These presentations will form the essential learning for the day.

10.15 Tea/Coffee

10.30 Playback and assessment of 5 presentations focusing on:

• Establishing the basics of good communication
• Audience preoccupation rather than personal survival
• How to avoid content overloading
• Importance of creating understanding rather than transmitting data
• Role of illustration
• How to plan and structure a Presentation

11.30 Continue Assessments

12.30 Lunch

1.30 Delivery Module focusing on; PowerPoint and Making an Impact
Peppered with information and practical exercises the group will discover how to use PowerPoint and themselves to enhance their presentation.

Areas covered will include;

• The point of PowerPoint
• How to avoid death by PowerPoint
• How to create a slide that works
• The Do's and Dont's of PowerPoint
• Nerves
• Eye Contact
• Posture and Gestures
• Looks/Appearance
• Expression of emotion
• Using your voice correctly

3.15 Tea/Coffee

3.30 Playback and Assessment of 5 Presentations:
Here the group will focus on recognising the key learning's of the day in the playbacks. There is also more in depth inputs on:

• Dealing with questions and groups
• Use of notes

5.00 Action Plan and target setting for individual participants

5.15 Open forum

5.30 Course ends