Effective Presentations

Course details

In this course, students will learn how to develop effective and persuasive presentations.

Course Outline

1 - Fundamentals of presentation

• Effective presentations
• Understanding effective presentations
• Understanding different types of presentations
• Planning a presentation
• Establishing objectives
• Determining objectives
• Making realistic objectives

2 - Audience analysis and supporting material

• Audience analysis
• Analyzing the audience
• Supporting materials
• Selecting supporting materials
• Understanding the types of supporting material
• Exploring retention and visual aids

3 - Building presentations

• Build presentations
• Building the presentation
• Develop an introduction
• Developing the introduction
• Capturing the attention of the audience
• Organize the body of the presentation
• Organizing the body of the presentation
• Using transitions
• Effective conclusion
• Creating the conclusion
• Closing the presentation

4 - Presentation mechanics

• Visual aids
• Introducing visual aids
• Using different types of visual aids
• Understand visual aids
• Displaying visual aids
• Creating visual aids

5 - Question-and-answer session

• Handle questions effectively
• Handling questions
• Understanding the question-and-answer session
• Handle challenging questions
• Handling challenging questions
• Handling challenging audience

6 - Fundamentals of persuasion

• Understand persuasion
• Understanding persuasion
• Analyzing the audience
• Motivating the audience
• Making claims
• Organize a persuasive presentation
• Creating a persuasive introduction
• Understanding the body of a persuasive presentation
• Methods of persuasion
• Using different methods of persuasion

7 - Presentation process

• Extemporaneous speaking
• Understanding the presentation process
• Preparation for speaking
• Reducing the fear of speaking
• Using warm-up routines
• Deliver a presentation
• Using different aspects of voice
• Nonverbal communication
• Using nonverbal communication aids
• Maintaining a focus on the audience