Making Powerful Presentations
Growing responsibilities require a leader/manage/executive to present and talk with an ever-increasing variety of audiences and individuals – small and large groups, meetings, conferences, Commanding Officers, committees, or stakeholders.
To make ever presentation rewarding for the receivers, you need to effectively present your ideas through clear, concise messages using persuasion, instruction, questions, and answers. You must be convincing, poised, and in control. When these skills come together, you generate opportunities and ensure success!
Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, each participant should be able to:
- Present active presentations with clarity and purpose
- Communicate the main purpose clearly
- Research and prepare a presentation
- Identify and leverage their personal style
- Conquer butterflies, anxiety, and worry
- Manage questions/Actively respond
- Effectively use visuals
Duration:
2 days
Content:
Developing Content: Communicating clearly. Producing a single focus. Controlling ideas.
Connecting ideas. Providing different points of view. Developing evidence to support conclusions.
Organizing: Developing the introduction. Providing a single focus. Formulating a decisive and smooth conclusion. Articulating a call to action. Using visual aids to support your ideas and transitions.
Developing Style: Complying with rules related to spoken English. Effectively leverage tone of voice, pace, and body language. Establish poise. Manage unexpected questions and interruptions. Read the audience. Create effective visuals. Dress. Create and maintain your image.
Developing Correctness: Visual usage. Proper word selection and pronunciation. Grammar. Maintaining order, pace, and interaction.
Listening: Practicing the principals of active listening.
Communication: Identifying and removing barriers to effective communication. Getting the audience on your side.
Undrstanding Behaviors: Managing assertiveness. Getting past stress and butterflies.
