This highly practical workshop develops your skills in planning, structuring and delivering successful presentations for everyday work situations.

Can your teams deliver clear and engaging presentations that are relevant to your stakeholders’ needs? Do their presentations contain the information and level of detail? Can they effectively apply different presentation techniques to appeal to various audiences?

Through this essential course, your teams will develop a strong foundation in planning, structuring and delivering highly-effective presentations. They will be able to craft key messages that capture stakeholders’ attention. Your organisation will strengthen its professional image through memorable presentations that make a strong impression and inspire stakeholder action.

Objectives

  • Craft relevant, complete presentations that achieve desired outcomes based on detailed understanding of audience needs and expectations 
  • Give clear, concise, coherent presentations that encourage and enable the audience to take appropriate, timely action
  • Engage presentation audiences from the start through targeted verbal, vocal and visual techniques.

Benefits

  • Participants will be more adept at creating and delivering engaging presentations that make a strong impression on stakeholders
  • Audiences will quickly understand presentations, be more engaged by the speaker and be able to take appropriate and timely action
  • Your organisation will project a professional image, through targeted, interactive presentations that result in stakeholder action.

Workshop outline

Presentations essentials

  • Incorporating the 4Ps presentation process
  • Evaluating your presentation performance and setting personal goals

Planning presentations that meet audience needs

  • Identifying purpose and outcome
  • Analysing audience profile & needs

Creating a logical presentation structure

  • Structuring your presentation
  • Using the power of three and transition signals

Making your presentation memorable

  • Capturing your audience’s attention
  • Creating a structured opening and closing

Enhancing your presentation with visual aids

  • Storyboarding to design slides
  • Avoid problems with slides

Polishing your presentations with non-verbal communication

  • Projecting a confident image
  • Aligning body language with your words

Handling interruptions and questions when presenting

  • Handling interruptions
  • Managing Q&A sessions

Presentations mini-clinic

  • Evaluating your presentation performance 
  • Setting goals and action planning to improve your presentations

Course levels

CEFR Intermediate (B1) and above.

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