Effective Presentations 3: Put Your Skills To The Test

Outline

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

Description

XEBEC: Presentations are opportunities - to communicate, to persuade, to sell, to gain commitment. But nerves and anxiety can make it hard to take real advantage of the occasion. The Effective Presentations Series takes a structured and down to earth approach to presentation skills that helps students build confidence and overcome their natural fear of public performance. The CD-ROM self study format allows students to learn the essentials in a risk free environment and to decide on their own path and pace. An extensive and detailed on-line glossary, along with quick and easy access to individual exercises and tutorials makes the series a natural reference tool.

Audience

The series is aimed at anyone who makes or is likely to make a presentation including, marketing and sales professionals, managers and team leaders, professional staff and people who represent the company to customers, suppliers and the industry.

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• How much of their message is conveyed by body language and tone.


• How to control posture, gestures and body language in front of an audience.


• How to control facial expression and eye contact for best effect.


• Some basic rules of thumb for dressing appropriately.


• How to find out what their optimum speed and volume are.


• How important it is to rehearse.


• How to analyse an audience's body language.


• Techniques for controlling nerves.


• How to construct notes and how to use notes to make their presentation flexible.


• The pros, cons and practicalities of various visual aids.


• When to hand out back up materials.


• What sort of risks they can take.


• Why they should and how to plan for the question and answers sessions.


• Techniques for dealing with difficulty questions and questioners

Topics Include

Unit 1: Delivering Your Presentation

• Delivering Your Presentation aims to help people get it right on the big day by exploring the effects of good and bad practice through graphics and video exercises. Students are encourage to analyse how they look and how they sound and, through the accompanying workbook, apply suggested techniques to improve their presentation skills. Interactive video exercises help students understand how to promote give and take with the audience through handling questions, using notes and understanding what the audience is feeling through their body language.

Duration

(Currently no course duration information)

Minimum Requirements

This course is not available in all International locations, please contact NETG's International Head Office for more information.

The Effective Presentations Series contains 2 courses 13025 and 13026.

Hardware requirements:

• 486 25Mhz CPU.


• MS Dos 5.0 or later.


• MSCDEX (Microsoft CD-Rom extensions) 2.10 or later.


• Windows Version: 4MB Ram.


• 4MB free hard disk space.


• Super VGA card with 512k RAM.


• MS Mouse or compatible.


• Soundblaster compatible audio card and MPC compliant CD-Rom drive.


• 16 bit Codec or the 32 bit Codec (installed during a normal course install). No MPEG course requires either Codec.

Media

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