This course will enable you to
- Deliver effective presentations to share information, win support for new ideas and enhance your reputation
- Plan and structure successful presentations
- Capture your audience's attention using the right design and structure in PowerPoint
- Tell stories to connect with your audience
- Prepare effectively for presentations
- Build rapport with your audience using a variety of verbal and non-verbal communication skills
About the course
Whatever your role, or the organisation you work in, effective presentation skills are an important part of your professional portfolio, and presentations will be vital for sharing business information. Being able to project an air of confidence and hold the room are, of course, key skills for presenters, but there's something equally important that needs to take place behind the scenes.
In this course, explore how to deliver effective presentations to share information, win support for new ideas and enhance your reputation. Learn about the importance of planning, design and structure, and how to employ story-telling to engage your audience.
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Contents
- Presentations and why they matter
- The ultimate communication challenge
- Why presentations still matter in the workplace
- What's special about presenting?
- Key skills for effective presenting
- Common presentation challenges
- Your natural presentation style
- Planning and structuring a presentation
- Thinking it through
- Applying the GAMMOC model of communication
- Thinking about goals and outcomes
- Thinking about audience and context
- The opening
- Structuring information
- Storyboarding like Hollywood
- The end
- Designing and using slides
- Designing great slides
- The role of PowerPoint
- Principles of good design
- Designing slides with data
- Thinking about images
- Persuasion and storytelling
- Storytelling
- Persuasive strategies
- Why stories are so powerful
- What makes a good story?
- Final preparations
- Last minute prep!
- Drafting and using notes
- Preparing yourself
- Managing nerves
- Warming up
- Delivering an impactful presentation
- In the moment
- Building rapport
- Using your voice
- Using your body
- Encouraging participation
- Delivering a remote presentation
- Handling questions
- Dealing with hecklers
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| Access period | 120 days | 120 days Access to end 2025 | 12 months | 12+ months |
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