Improving Your Presentation Skills

MDP106 - Improving Your Presentation Skills

Course description
Regardless of your position, you will occasionally be required to present information to others. Whether the presentation is impromptu, casual or formal, you must be able to demonstrate confidence and clarity to effectively deliver your message. This workshop provides strategies, coaching, and practice in developing your presentation skills.

Who should attend
Anyone who would like to make more effective presentations to peers, clients, customers, or senior management will benefit from this course.

Prerequisites
Students are asked to bring whatever they might need to be able to practice for a typical presentation. If students haven't yet given presentations but are about to, they will work on the fundamentals to prepare to present. Details will be included in the student's final confirmation email.

What you will achieve

• Opportunities to practice, view, and improve videotaped presentations in class.


• Awareness of your strengths and maximizing them to develop your unique, successful style.


• Increased comfort in using eye contact, pausing, movement, and stronger voice.


• More enthusiasm in your delivery and more focus, logic, and organization in your content.


• Time to plan, prepare, and rehearse before giving a 5 minute presentation in class based on the course principles.

What you will learn

• Projecting Credibility - the most under-utilized asset in presentations: being in control and providing leadership, handling speaker fright professionally.


• Beginning with Impact - practical tips for a strong beginning, the importance of the first minute, beginning before you begin.


• Techniques for Delivery - maintaining a strong physical presence, the impact of eye contact, gestures, movement, stance, position, and your voice.


• Knowing Your Audience - preparing your presentation so that it meets your audience’s needs and expectations, including adult learning issues to involve your audience.


• Saying What You Have to Say - a process for defining your purpose clearly and focusing your message to support your main objectives, keeping your presentation audience-centered .


• Dynamic Use of Audio-Visual Aids - using audio-visuals to enhance your message, and the advantages and disadvantages of each type.

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