Presentation Skills Training

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This online Presentation Skills Training course helps you to understand what makes an engaging and memorable presentation and teaches practical and actionable tips for becoming an effective presenter.

Finding your own unique presentation style is the key to having the desired impact on your audience and making a real and lasting impression.  There will be times in life when you need to present and share your ideas, whether it be in a work situation as part of your job role, for an interview for a new role or in your personal life pursuing hobbies or voluntary work.  Presenting your ideas can happen in a number of ways such as to a team, to an individual, to a large audience or even on a pre-recorded video.  One of the most import skills for communicating effectively during a presentation is being clear, concise and engaging and creating a compelling story is a great way to do this.  It is all about connecting with your audience.  

This course is split into two sections.

What is a presentation?

First and foremost a presentation is a form of communication for exchanging ideas or sharing information.  Visuals such as slides are helpful to guide yourself and audience through the presentation but the presentation actually relies on what you are saying and doing.  Before you even start preparing your presentation it is important to identify the purpose of your presentation.  Is it to inform, instruct, inspire or induce?  Each one of these will influence the style, content and structure in a different way.

To present effectively you need to understand your audience and present the message in a memorable way. Remember, an unengaged audience is an audience that isn’t learning.  Try to use non-verbal cues like body language, hand gestures, eye contact, and voice projection to engage your audience.

How to be an Effective Presenter

This section covers four actions on how to be an effective presenter:-

Connect with your audience
The six stages of effective communication are aim, encode, transmit, receive, decode and respond.  This online training course explores each of these areas in more detail and will help you to understand how to connect with your audience.

Offer engaging content
Think of your presentation as a story. It needs a beginning, middle, and end.  This section will help you to structure your presentation to make it engaging.

Preparation
This section covers tips on how to prepare for your presentation such as practising in a familiar place or in the room you'll be presenting in, inviting friends to your practice run and use their advice to improve your presentation and arriving early on the day of your presentation to give yourself time to set up and familiarise yourself with the environment and equipment.

Be aware of your body language and voice
This section covers how you can use body language to your advantage including your postural positioning, eye contact and hand gestures.

This online Presentation Skills course can be completed in just 10 minutes and will ultimately help you to improve on this highly-valued skill of presenting by practising the techniques covered in the course.

Course Sections

1. What is a presentation?
2. How to be an Effective Presenter

Discount available for multiple courses. Please contact us for details