Speaking and Presenting with Confidence
This one day presentation course looks at all the factors that affect how confidently you deliver any presentation, anywhere. It will help you look forward to your next presentation instead of wishing you were still in bed. It offers simple, easy to practise tools to help you cope with nerves, get your message across memorably, structure your material for the best impact and present to audiences of varied sizes. It is fun and effective with plenty of opportunities to practise.
Objectives
- What already works about you as a presenter?
- Exploring how presentation works
- Developing a unique individual style
- Understanding what happens in front of an audience
- Practising a whole range of techniques
- Hints and tips for effective presentation
- Stretching your capacity to present
- Presenting with style, flair and presence
- Using support materials
- Enlivening your presentation
- Maintaining confidence and handling nerves
- Coping better when feeling lost in your material
Prerequisites
- This course has no prerequisites.
Contents
Introduction to Presenting
- The fundamentals of presenting
- An assessment of each person's unique presentation style
Having an IMPACT
- The Individual's best skills
- Conveying a clear Message
- Preparation
- Managing good Audience interaction
- Presenting with Conviction
- Using Technology well - avoiding 'death by powerpoint'
Your Unique Style of Presenting
- Presenting to Camera and reviewing
- What happens physically, mentally and emotionally when you present
- Improving your presenting style
Becoming an Excellent Presenter
- Raising confidence
- Clear delivery
- Ability to go "off script"
- How to make non-linear presentations
- How to prompt or plant questions
- How to talk to differing levels of understanding or experience
- Communicating concepts quickly
- Using analogies and drawing on memorable images
- Structuring your presentation entrance and beginning
- Dealing with difficult or tricky questions
- Working presentations round a table
- The relationship between presenter, material and audience
- Difficult presentation issues and people
- Working your presentation style
- Developing as a communicator rather than a presenter
- Creating an interactive, question friendly atmosphere
