Presentations Training Workshops

Our presentation training workshop is the most highly participatory and personalized workshop of its kind. Participants have two instructors to help them learn and practice fundamental and advanced presentation skills. There are 10 videotaped personal presentations and each of the 10 presentations is followed by personalized one-on-one feedback from a senior instructor to guarantee progress and eliminate any distracting behaviors.

For more information and pricing on our presentation training workshops, please contact us.

Workshop Objectives:

• Present technical information clearly, concisely, and persuasively.

• Enhance voice projection, articulation, pace and fluency, body language, eye contact, and gestures.

• Determine audience attitudes and needs.

• Overcome nervousness, anxiety, and any distracting mannerisms.

• Use both common and high-tech media effectively.

• Implement persuasive communication techniques.

• Project control and confidence.

• Plan and develop complete, formalized product presentations around the market forces that affect business.

• Structure presentations to gain maximum effect.

• Use audience involvement techniques to identify and handle questions.

• Set up an on going action plan to improve future presentations.

Presentations Training:
Presentation Skills Workshops - Don't Bore Your Audience With PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint is an application that has made huge changes in the arena of public speaking. Suddenly any old Joe can put together a fantastic, swish looking presentation with ease using software that most computers have running on it. PowerPoint is easy to use, has lots of features and can inspire anyone who is due to deliver a presentation to delve in to it and try to wow people with its features.

Like so many other things in life there is a right way, and a wrong way to use PowerPoint within a presentation. The right way can bring your speech alive and wow your audience. The wrong way can put them to sleep and make sure they pay no attention whatsoever.

I am sure you have sat through a dreaded Death By PowerPoint presentation... you know, where the speaker is reading his slides in a monotone voice or his presentation is so full of effects that you are not sure if there is any content or not.

PowerPoint is a tool that if you use well then you can deliver an outstanding speech, but how do you use it well?

The first thing to consider is how many effects do you use? Text flying in from all different angles and all sorts of other effects may look cool but your audience may end up so busy watching the effects that they aren't listening to you. Keeping it simple may sound boring but it ensures the audience is concentrating on what they are meant to.

It is much more important for you to have a good looking background so that slides look professional than cramming in as many different effects as you can.

Secondly, don't get carried away with the many fonts available to you. Yes, they may look great on the screen but they take away from the professionalism and they can often be hard to read on the screen. Avoid having small fonts or fonts with lots of curls on it as it is just hard on the eye. A simple, good looking font is plenty enough.

You need to ensure that there is consistency between your slides. If every slide has a different layout, different font and different color it is going to grate on your audience. The consistency means people can concentrate on your speech and not wonder what the next slide will be like.

When you give your presentation, don't turn your back on your audience to read your PowerPoint’s to them. They are quite able to read the presentation and don't want to be watching your back as you read it out to them. This will really alienate your audience if you do it.

Don't make the slides a detailed run through of your presentation. Your slides are meant to be teasers on the actual presentation, detailing the main points. In this way people are focusing on your speech and not your PowerPoint’s. The slides are re-enforcing the points you are making in your speech and are then a tool and not the core of your presentation.

PowerPoint is an excellent tool for you to use in your presentations to add value and impact. Be careful not to take it too far and to make it the center of your speech so people focus on that and not you. Used right, it can help to bring your speech alive and entertain your audience.

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