Presentation and Public Speaking Skills
Course Objectives
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Understand where nervousness comes from and implement practices to overcome those feelings
- Understand how an audience remembers a presentation and
- Cater to the audience learning styles to increase retention
- Plan a presentation using a Powerful introduction, a body and a conclusion
- Use body language, voice and breathing techniques when presenting
- Understand the importance and use of visual aids
- Ad-lib, tell stories and use emotional triggers to deliver powerful and memorable presentations
Course Outline
- Why do we get nervous
- Overcoming nerves
- Context
- Chunking information
- Audience breaks
- Story telling
- Auditory
- Visual
- Kinaesthetic
- Improving memory
- Method of Loci
- Tell a story
- A quotation
- Imagine this
- An unusual statistic
- Ask a question
- Humour
- Presentation structure
- What to include
- Why use questions
- types of questions
- Audience questions
- Know your objectives
- Know the environment
- Know the audience
- Audience checklist
- Voice techniques
- Posture
- Eye contact
- Gestures
- Facial expressions
- Where to stand
- White board & flip charts
- Handouts
- Show and tell
- Text, text and more text
- Focus on visuals
- No reading
- Colour
- Slide show length
- Running PowerPoint
Target Audience
Anyone wishing to improve their presentation skills.
Course Duration
2 days
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