Our presentations training course 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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Seminar 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 come in an almost endless array of forms; they may be an informal, side-by-side meeting with your supervisor using a single sheet of paper to review or a company-wide, all-day affair complete with digital slide show and bound handouts. Although presentations differ in their formats, they all have the same goal: to convey information and make an impact with the audience. Don‘t let your research, compilation time and hard work go to waste on your next visual presentation; capture your audience and make an impact.
White Space
Whether your visual presentation is a single poster board or a hundred-slide electronic presentation, it may seem wasteful to take care to include white space. White space is the term for leaving blank areas on your page (if your poster is red, for example, it just means areas of red without text or images on it; it doesn‘t mean white boxes on your presentation). Although it may seem important to crowd what little room you have with all the facts and figures you‘re trying to convey, doing so may cause your audience visual overload. A presentation too crowded with information loses its impact, turning off viewers. Instead, white space can work for you. A single slide of a pie chart, for example, may make much more of an impact when placed alone rather than crowded onto a page filled with bullet points and lines of text. White space is also beneficial as a way to highlight information; leave a headline with lots of white space around it, and the viewer‘s eye will immediately track right to it.
Color Planning
Whether your presentation is hard copy or electronic, you‘ll probably have to plan for some use of color. It may seem like something you‘d find in a mystical or psychic shop, but color meanings may actually affect your visual presentation. When planning to use colors in your presentation, consider their symbolism. For example, if your topic is on recruiting financial contributions, you may wish to have purple as a headline, running background or theme color, as the hue is associated with luxury, sophistication and wealth, according to Template Ready. When making a presentation to rev up your staff, the passion, energy, power and domination associated with red may make for an excellent theme choice.
Control Images
Many presentations contain images, ranging from photographs to charts to company logos. All of these items may enhance a presentation if used well. On the other hand, too many images can tank a presentation, making it look shoddy, thrown together or crowded. If your presentation is a slide show, consider placing your main image on the first slide only instead of on every slide of the page. Your viewers won‘t automatically forget your company if they don‘t see it with every click of the presentation. Another thing to keep in mind is the use of clip art. Clip art, the generic stock artwork available for free with many visual presentation programs, is sometimes added unnecessarily to presentations to illustrate a point. Instead, let words speak for themselves. There‘s probably no need for a stick figure scratching his head next to one of your bullets. Then, when you actually do use an image to illustrate or make a point, it‘ll really stand out.
Source: Filonia LeChat