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.

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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.

Presentation Training Workshops:
Effective Presentation Skills Training Workshops

After effective presentation skills training, participants should leave the session feeling confident that they can give a great presentation to a small or large audience. Make sure your content is interesting and that you meet the needs of your learners. Include interesting, narrated content; visuals to reinforce learning; and hands-on practice sessions in your effective presentation skills training session.

Room Setup

Make sure the room is set up in a way that allows all attendees of the training to be able to see and hear you. Test your audio equipment in advance. Have another person stand at the back of the room to make sure he can hear you and adjust the volume accordingly. Check the room's lighting to make sure it suits your needs. Test your video equipment and make sure that all cables are connected and any remote controls are working properly.

Visual Aids

Use slides to help get your point across. Having slides to show attendees during the training will reinforce what you are telling them by giving them a visual aid. This will help them to retain the information you are presenting.

Content

Your content should include informing the attendees how to talk in front of a group and how to combat the effects of stage fright. Include sections on how to plan a great presentation, how to make a great first impression and how to keep an audience engaged. Miscellaneous sections could include body language, the importance of making eye contact and how to avoid over preparing.

Role-Playing Activities

Keep your audience engaged by having them participate in role-playing activities. One effective role-playing activity could include having one participant act as the presenter and another act as an annoying person asking many questions. The purpose here would be to help the presenter understand how to appropriately deal with irritating situations that may develop during his own presentation.

Takeaway Material

Take-away items like manuals or handouts is helpful to participants. They will then have something to refer to after the training is complete. Create a manual that follows your training agenda. It could include slides and notes from your presentation. Participants can follow along with the manual and make necessary notes in the margin. Handouts could include resources such as phone numbers or websites that might be helpful to participants later.

Practice

Leave ample time during your training for participants to practice their presentation skills. This will allow them to practice the material you just gave them while it is fresh in their mind. Also, you are on hand to answer questions or provide assistance if they get stuck.

Following Up

Think about sending participants a survey or questionnaire so you can get their honest feedback. You could hand out surveys to participants to complete in class or you could send one out to them electronically. Either way, let them know how vital their feedback is to future training sessions so they'll be sure to complete the survey.

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