Presentation Skills Course: Communicating for Impact

This presentation skills course will cover the following content:

Preparing for an initial positive impression

• Research your audience – form your message.
• Open, connect and have a structure.

Commencing the presentation

• Look and sound confident with calm enthusiasm – be positively memorable.
• Creating intrigue about the message (the art of storytelling) – fuelling anticipation for the key point.

Delivering the body of the presentation

• Structure the presentation to maintain audience attention and create impact.
• Work with an Open-Middle-Close structure by applying the principle of ‘less is more’ (i.e. use less words for more impact).

Ways of encouraging audience participation

• How to project certainty through your speaking cadence.
• How to check if your messages are landing and understood.
• How to build your thinking and speaking on your feet.
• Managing challenging questions from your audience.
• How to build your fluency and flexibility with ‘under fire’ questions.

Additional considerations

• Prepared vs. impromptu public speaking.
• Movement, eye contact and gestures.
• Voice modulation.
• Dealing with nerves.

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