Effective Presentation Skills

Effective Presentations skills are essential to deliver solid sales pitches. Learn how to create and deliver effective presentations. The open, modular-style manual is design for quick scanning in the classroom, and is filled with interactive exercises that will allow students to explore the complexities of Effective Presentations.

Course Objectives

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Identify and use effective presentations, use different types of presentations, plan a presentation, and determine primary and secondary objectives.
• Analyze the audience, determine the supporting material, and learn about different types of supporting material.
• Incorporate visual aids, understand the types of visual aids, display, and create visual aids.
• Handle the questions effectively, approach the question-and-answer session, responsibilities during a session, and handle challenging questions.
• Persuade a presentation, understand the goals of persuasion, organize a persuasive presentation, and use the methods of persuasion.

Who Should Attend?

Those interested in learning effective presentation skills.

Course Outline

Fundamentals of presentation

• Effective presentations
  • Understanding effective presentations
  • Understanding different types of presentations
• Planning a presentation
  • Establishing objectives
  • Determining objectives
  • Making realistic objectives

Audience analysis and supporting material

• Audience analysis
  • Analyzing the audience
• Supporting materials
  • Selecting supporting materials
  • Understanding the types of supporting material
  • Exploring retention and visual aids

Building presentations

• Build presentations
  • Building the presentation
• Develop an introduction
  • Developing the introduction
  • Capturing the attention of the audience
• Organize the body of the presentation
  • Organizing the body of the presentation
  • Using transitions
• Effective conclusion
  • Creating the conclusion
  • Closing the presentation

Presentation mechanics

• Visual aids
  • Introducing visual aids
  • Using different types of visual aids
• Understand visual aids
  • Displaying visual aids
  • Creating visual aids

Presentation process

• Extemporaneous speaking
  • Understanding the presentation process
• Preparation for speaking
  • Reducing the fear of speaking
  • Using warm-up routines
• Deliver a presentation
  • Using different aspects of voice
• Nonverbal communication
  • Using nonverbal communication aids
  • Maintaining a focus on the audience
  • Question-and-answer session
• Handle questions effectively
  • Handling questions
  • Understanding the question-and-answer session
• Handle challenging questions
  • Handling challenging questions
  • Handling challenging audience

Fundamentals of persuasion

• Understand persuasion
  • Understanding persuasion
  • Analyzing the audience
  • Motivating the audience
  • Making claims
• Organize a persuasive presentation
  • Creating a persuasive introduction
  • Understanding the body of a persuasive presentation
• Methods of persuasion
  • Using different methods of persuasion

Course Methodology

A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:

• (30%) Based on Case Studies
• (30%) Techniques
• (30%) Role Play
• (10%) Concepts
• Pre-test and Post-test
• Variety of Learning Methods
• Lectures
• Case Studies and Self Questionaires
• Group Work
• Discussion
• Presentation

Course Fees

This rate includes participant’s manual, Hand-Outs, buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.

Course Timings

Daily Course Timings
08:00 - 08:20       Morning Coffee / Tea
08:20 - 10:00       First Session
10:00 - 10:20       Coffee / Tea / Snacks
10:20 - 12:20       Second Session
12:20 - 13:30       Lunch Break & Prayer Break
13:30 - 15:00       Last Session