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Presentation Skills Course

execDuration: 2 days |   Fee: €895

About This Presentation Skills Training Course

Making a presentation to a group of people can be a daunting task. It requires a high level of confidence and thorough preparation.

This Presentation Skills Course is designed to enable participants to make natural, interesting and effective presentations to large or small groups.

Participants will learn how to generate audience commitment and action through effective objective planning and meeting control.

Presentation Skills Training Contents

Introduction

  • What makes a speaker nervous and how can they relax?
  • How does tension affect our platform manner and performance?

Voice Technique and Words

  • Voice production, ensuring clarity and audibility.
  • Achieving colourful delivery and powerful projection.
  • Words and their use.

Body Language

  • The power of “non verbal” communication.
  • Gesture and stance.
  • “What they see and what they get”.
  • Power of verbal versus non-verbal communication.

Framework of the Presentation

  • Obtaining and making the best use of material.
  • Putting shape and form on the presentation.
  • Essential steps in presentation.
  • How to prepare notes which are easy to use.

Influencing Your Audience

  • Techniques to persuade your audience to act.

Visual Aids

  • Instruction on how to create and use various types of visual aids to stimulate an audience.

Meeting Management

  • Developing mood and atmosphere.
  • Lighting, layout and design of meeting room.
  • Visual aid positioning.

Controlling the Meeting

  • Initiating discussion.
  • Recognising different questions from an audience.
  • Anticipating questions and preparing effective answers.
  • Handling aggressive questioners.

Project Work

Each participant is asked to prepare in advance and bring along the outline of a short presentation on a business topic and/or on a subject of their choice.

The first part of the workshop is built around a number of instruction sessions which impart knowledge and demonstrate presentation skills.

The remainder of the programme centres around the preparation and presentation of delegates own material.

What Participants Will Gain

Having presentation skills and being confident in public speaking will increase your career opportunities, as delivering professional presentations to clients and business partners is becoming an essential part of today’s business world.

Personal Development Training Course

This Communication Skills Course is run in a number of our centres nationwide, including Dublin, Cork and Galway.

We also have a Communication Skills Course available in Belfast and Manchester in the UK.

Enquiries
If you would like further information please complete our online Inquiry Form Click here

The course fees include all training materials, workbooks, certificate of attendance,
lunch and tea or coffee each morning and afternoon.