Presentation Skills

Overview

Are you petrified by the thought of speaking in public? Do your hands shake when presenting at a meeting or to your team? This course will give you the tools and practice you need to become an assured and engaging speaker.

The ability to present well is vital business skill. In fact, the ability to communicate to small and large groups is often a make or break component of closing a sale, gaining a new client, receiving approval for a new idea or venture, or implementing a business plan.

By leaning the elements of a successful presentation, the skills to present well, and techniques to gain confidence and overcome the usual nerves associated with speaking to groups, this 2 day workshop is guaranteed significantly improve your presentation ability.

Outcomes

• Keep your audience engaged
• Apply creative planning methods to structure your presentations
• Overcome nerves and gain experience through practice and feedback

Topics

General Communication Principles

• Making and breaking presentations
• The qualities of a great presenter
• Knowing your purpose and intention

Presenting versus Lecturing

• Catering for everyone: DISC Behavioural Model
• Understanding the different learning styles
• Becoming and remaining confident
• Your voice & body: the most important tools
• Gaining participation and engagement
• Preparing for trouble situations and learning challenges

Preparing Powerful Presentations

• Dynamic introductions
• Creating structure
• Concluding with a bang
• Creating Mind Maps
• Impromptus made easy

Skills practice and feedback

Details

Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Duration: 2 days
Capacity: Maximum 10 participants

Results

“I loved everything about the ‘Presentation Skills’ course. The 2 days were perfect and the group size was just right. Meg was, as always, so easy to be captivated by. Everyone wanted to be there and I just felt so much better about myself and being able to get up in front of an audience.”

“This Auridian program exceeded my expectations beyond belief!!!  Confidence in yourself is the biggest asset you have as a trainer – and mine was lifted to a higher level than ever before – I am absolutely on fire and ready to take on anything! My only suggestion for improvement would be that we need to have these more frequently! I loved all the practical exercises – the more the better, getting out of my comfort zone, and the pressure to prepare a presentation without much time to arrange it – awesome. The trainer was brilliant, funny, talented, knowledgeable and dynamic. A role model to aspire to!”