Learn how to present ideas with confidence, credibility and professionalism. Understand communication styles to improve your preparation and practise. Get your pacing right and learn how to create strong slides that complement your presentation. Overcome anxiety and power up your confidence.

Details

Level: Intermediate
Duration: 1 day (7 CPD hours)

You will learn to:

• Understand what good preparation looks like
• Develop a deeper understanding of you and your audience
• Develop the skills of effective presentation
• Present with increased credibility, professionalism and impact.
• Become personally confident in yourself and your capabilities as a presenter

Ways you can learn with us

Virtual Classroom: Tutor led, live, online classroom environments.

Online: Self Study, via an always-on, always open portal, providing an engaging multimedia learning experience.

In person: Face-to-face, tutor-led classroom training. To ensure everyone’s safety while attending courses at our training centre, we’re taking a range of precautionary measures.

Course Categories:

Business Skills

Course availability

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Location:
Virtual classroom

Price:

Member £400
Non-Member £450
NB: Prices above subject to VAT

Course Information:

First steps

• Introductions and goal setting: what do you want to be different after this session?
• Defining success: what does a successful presentation look, sound and feel like?
• Setting goals and getting on purpose: asking the right questions to set you off in the right direction

Preparation and practise

• You: Understanding your communication style
• Your audience: Understanding their communication style
• Your content: Pulling together the pieces of your idea
• Practise: What good practise looks like

Practical matters

• Slide rules: how to create good slides that compliment your presentation
• Good Questions: handling questions well
• Staying on track: keeping to pace and to time
• Team presentations: some rules for smooth team presentations

Performance

• Now that your audience is not in the same room: performing well on video
• Developing your vocal toolkit: the four tools of effective voice
• Practical: the opportunity to test the tools for yourself

Personal confidence

• The purpose of fear: why it’s a good thing and how to harness it
• Anxiety: three types of anxiety, find yours.
• Adrenalin: take control of your energy and let it work for you
• Visualisation lists: focus on the good things for a good result
• Visualisation scripts: create and run a successful outcome in your mind

On the day

• Practical ways to stop nerves getting in the way of your presentation

And what’s more....

• Rounding off the day, a one-hour facilitated discussion
• Pull together your learning
• Recognise what’s new
• Raise and discuss what’s unresolved
• Discover the answer

Next steps

• Review of your goals: what difference will you make with what you’ve learned?
• What’s next: what else do you need to do?
• Barriers to change: what might get in the way?
• Removing the barriers: how will you approach the barriers?
• Your action plan: leave with development goals for you as a presenter.