Professional Presentation Skills Somerset West Bay Doha, Doha

Course details

Presenting in one form or another has become an intrinsic part of our business life. This Presentation course examines those factors that affect how confidently you deliver your presentation in any particular setting. The course provides you with the opportunity to develop and practice your Skills as a confident and creative presenter. It offers practical, easy to use techniques to help you cope with nerves, structure and deliver your material with maximum impact and speak effectively to audiences of varied sizes.

Objectives

Upon the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Understand what already works for them as a presenter
• Develop their unique presentation style
• Use support materials for maximum impact
• Maintain confidence and handling nerves
• Connect with the audience
• Practice a range of presentation techniques
• Create key messages with finesse
• Adapt material to different levels of understanding
• Handle awkward situations
• Create compelling, engaging and dynamic PowerPoint presentations
• Develop a dynamic narrative to focus their key messages

Target Audience

• Inpiduals whose jobs require them to give presentations to customers or management

Course Structure

• This course uses interactive training methods. Presentations are video-taped and replayed with instructor and group feedback

Program Contents

Module 1

• What is a presentation and its varying components
• Formal and informal presentations
• Why is a presentation useful?
• Defining Meaningful Objectives
• Presentation Skills
• Icebreakers
• Time management
• Structure a presentation
• Introduce a presentation
• Greeting the audience
• Introducing yourself
• Giving the structure of your presentation
• What makes a good presenter?
• What makes a good presentation?

Module 2

• Practice writing and giving the first part of a presentation
• Thinking about your audience
• Practice writing and giving the first part of a presentation
• Thinking about your audience
• Learning Styles
• How to present to-colleagues, superiors, clients, investors
• Practice a range of presentation techniques
• Listening Skills
• Maintaining confidence
• Persuasive presentations
• Verbal Communication Skills
• Non-Verbal Communication Skills

Module 3

• Preparing Mentally
• Encouraging Discussions
• Choosing your delivery methods
• Creating powerful PowerPoint Presentations
• Dealing with complex questions
• Establishing credibility
• How to motivate and persuade audience
• Giving group or team presentations
• Using the proper language
• Relating and connecting with the audience
• Grabbing the audience’s attention
• Dealing with awkward questions

Module 4

• Use Eye Contact, Gestures, Posture and Movement for Maximum Results
• Overcoming Nervousness
• Developing your voice
• Using creativity to maintain interest
• Useful phrases
• Do’s and Don’ts about making presentations
• Prepare and organize a presentation script
• Refer to visual aids (e.g. diagrams, tables, charts)
• Recognize the correct visual aids to utilize for the type of presentation you are giving
• Demonstrate mastery of lesson content

Module 5

• Importance of obtaining presentation feedback
• Analysing feedback
• Identifying your presentations strengths and weaknesses
• How to improve