A two day training workshop

Workshop Overview

Powerful Presentation Skills is an intensive and highly interactive two-day training course

to help ensure you get the most from every presentation opportunity.

The course is ideal if you are an experienced presenter or public speaker and now want to achieve more with

your presentations.

You will gain a wide range of practical experience through many exercises (voice, physical presence, body

language etc) and the delivery of four presentations. Each of the presentations provides a different challenge

and will give you the opportunity to present in a different style.

By the End of this course You'll be able to...

• Fine tune your delivery style to create maximum impact
• Develop a more persuasive and impressive speaking style
• Control your space and presence to get rapport and influence your audience
• Use pace and structure more powerfully
• Use language creatively to present a more powerful message
• Deliver different styles of presentations for different audiences

Workshop Outline

Introduction

• Exercises to develop group rapport
• Self analysis of current presentation style
• Controlling nervous energy

Presentation practice (prepared presentation)

• First delivery of presentation one (approx 5 mins)
• Feedback on effectiveness of delivery style

Creating greater impact through the voice

• Developing a more confident and convincing voice
• Developing a greater range of expression in the voice
• Influencing your audience with the power of your voice

Engaging with the audience visually

• Analysis of your visual impact on the audience
• Using body language to build audience rapport
• Developing your unique presentation style

Presentation structure, style and language

• Preparing a presentation within a strict time constraint
• Establishing the key message
• Applying structure and style effectively
• Using language to clarify and influence

Presentation practice (unseen presentation)

• Delivery of presentation
• Analysis via trainer feedback and group discussion

Spontaneity and audience awareness

• Thinking on your feet
• Developing greater command of your audience
• Gaining your audience's attention and interest

Presentation practice - set presentation

• Adapting material to the needs of the audience
• Delivery of a set presentation to a given audience
• Analysis via trainer feedback and group discussion

Presentation preparation - business topic

• Delivery of opening of presentation
• Feedback on first impressions on audience

Taking control of your audience

• Tips on delivering to large and small audiences
• Managing audience expectations
• Dealing with difficult audiences

Presentation practice - business topic

• Final modifications
• Delivery of presentation
• Analysis via trainer feedback and group discussion

General feedback session

• Individual assessment of progress achieved
• Personal action plans
• Overall workshop feedback