Comprehensive Presentation Skills
Course
Price:
$59
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In today's market, anything
less than A+ presentation
skills can harm a promising
career.
With stakes this
high, don’t risk it. Take
your presentation skills to
the next level.
As the name of this
course implies, it provides
the information you need to
prepare and deliver all
kinds of presentations
effectively.
It includes the content
of our other courses,
Preparing a
Presentation
and
Managing Nervousness
& Engaging Listeners,
plus insights, skills and
techniques to ensure that
what you say is actually
heard. The final section
focuses on techniques for
managing the ebb and flow of
interactive presentations.
As you work on your
real-life presentation, you
will learn:
- How to analyze your
audience quickly and
efficiently (and
organize the content to
meet their unique needs)
- How to craft a
persuasive story and
communicate it
effectively
- How to improve the
look and effectiveness
of your visual aids
- How to assess your
own communication style
(and work with it for
maximum impact)
- Why nervousness
strikes (and how to
manage it)
- How to connect with
listeners and engage
them in the conversation
- How to listen
- How to manage
questions,
interruptions, difficult
people and situations
- How to balance the
needs of the
presentation with those
of the audience (even
when they derail your
presentation)
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Applying Skills Back on the Job
When the course is
over, you will have your presentation
ready to go. You’ll also have re-usable
job aids to help you through future
presentations.
Since the training is online, it will be
available to you 24/7, so you can access
it from any location, whenever your
schedule permits. You can also stop the
course and come back to it at any time.
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Optional Coaching Session
You will have the option of speaking
with one of our coaches after you
complete the online course. During the
private coaching session you will
receive feedback and recommendations on
your slides. You’ll also practice
delivering your presentation to your
coach in a webinar environment. Feedback
will focus on making the presentation
persuasive, listener-focused, easy to
follow and concise.
At the end of the coaching session, you
will have gained:
- In-depth,
personal feedback on the
presentation you’ve prepared
- Greater
confidence and comfort with the
presentation process
- Insight into
your strengths and challenges as
a presenter
- Practice
making the leap from preparation
to delivery
- Specific
recommendations on the skills
and techniques you should focus
on moving forward
Learn More about the
Coaching Session
Full Course Description
- Comprehensive Presentation
Skills Course
This online course is led by
3 instructors and includes the following
interactive sessions.
Session 1 - Preparing Your
Presentation
Your listeners will appreciate it when
your presentations are thoughtfully and
appropriately prepared. This session
focuses on organizing your presentation
so that it’s listener-focused, concise
and easy to follow. It includes
strategies and tools designed to help
you understand:
- How to
clarify your goal
- How (and why)
to identify your listeners’
wants and needs
- How to
develop your message and visuals
so that they focus on listeners
(not you)
- How to be
concise
- How to
prepare and deliver a
straightforward introduction
that gives listeners a sense of
direction, purpose and reason to
listen
- How to be
appropriately persuasive given
your topic and your audience
- How to
organize the information in the
body of the presentation for
greatest impact
- How to craft
a clear, actionable conclusion
Session 2 - Working with Your Default
Ever wonder why some people have no
trouble preparing their presentations
while others struggle and fret and still
don’t quite succeed? The reason is
because everyone has a unique default
approach to the preparation process.
What works for one presenter may not
work for you. This session provides you
with the insight to understand:
- How to assess,
understand and work with your
default
- How to capitalize
on your strengths
- How to overcome
your weaknesses
Session 3 - Improving Your Visual Aids
Don’t let the look of your slides
undermine your credibility.
Well-designed slides not only
demonstrate respect for your listeners,
they also sharpen your message and
increase retention. This session helps
you develop audience-friendly visual
aids (or fine-tune the ones you already
have) so that they support you and your
key messages. This session provides
guidance on:
- How to improve the
visual impact of slides
- How to use slide
titles to set up the conversation
- How to organize
content on slides to focus attention
(both yours and the listeners’)
- How to apply
these concepts to handouts and
leave-behind decks
Session
4 - Managing Nervousness & Engaging
Listeners
Nervousness is no fun. In this
session you will uncover the
roots of your nervousness and learn:
- How
to control it
- How
to stay focused (and on
track in spite of it)
- Why
engaging listeners is
the key to reducing
nervousness (and how to
do it)
- How
to settle your racing
thoughts
- How
to stay in the moment
(so you can manage the
unexpected)
- How
to make your
presentations feel and
sound more
conversational (and why
this matters)
- How
to preserve your natural
personality and
communication style when
presenting
Session 5 - Your
Default During Delivery
Long rambling
explanations, presentations
that lack purpose,
presenters that are too
controlling and never
deviate from their “script.”
These issues and others
affect a presenter’s ability
to succeed. This session
builds on the insights
presented in Session 2 and
applies them to the delivery
process. This session will
show you:
- How
to deliver clear and
concise explanations
(even if you tend to be
long-winded)
- How
to be flexible (even if
you’d rather not)
- Why
you need to stop
worrying about saying
things perfectly (and
how to overcome that
desire)
- How
to stay on course to
keep your listeners on
track (even if you
aren’t a linear thinker)
Session 6 - Helping
Listeners Listen
Just because you’ve
said it doesn’t mean that
the audience heard it. This
session focuses on the
skills and techniques you
need to help your audience
listen to and understand the
message. You’ll learn:
- How to ensure
listeners understand the point of
each slide
- How to control
where listeners focus (and why it
matters)
- How to explain
complex graphs and spreadsheets
- How to help
listeners see the big picture
- How to focus
listener attention, even when you’re
seated, on conference calls,
webinars or using handouts
Session
7 - Handling Questions
Most business presentations are
interactive. Handling questions can be
tricky, though, especially when they’re
complicated, off-topic, or out of step
with the presenter's agenda. This
session will help you understand:
- How to maintain
everyone’s attention during Q&A
- How to stay
focused on the goals of the agenda
- How (and when) to
move back to the presentation after
an interruption
- Why sometimes the
best thing to do is skip ahead
- How to manage
time effectively
- How to avoid a
defensive, knee-jerk reaction when
things heat up
Session
8 - Managing an Orderly Conversation
No matter how much preparation
goes into them, presentations are
unpredictable. That’s why we think of
presentations as orderly conversations.
Orderly, because they are carefully
prepared and have a goal. Conversations,
because they’re spontaneous and
unpredictable. To succeed, then,
presenters need to exercise an
appropriate level of control and
flexibility. This session will give you
the insight to do that. It focuses on:
- Why interactive
presentations are so challenging
- How to adapt to
your personal preference when it
comes to Q&A and group interactions
- How to encourage
equal participation from everyone
(and why this matters)
- How to meet your
presentation’s goals even if
listeners pull you off course
- How to decide on
the fly how much detail to go into
(and how flexible you should be)
- What to do when
difficult people take control
Session
9 – FAQs
As comprehensive as this course
is, you may have questions specific to
your job, situation or experience. We’ve
compiled a lengthy list of common
questions and concerns we’ve heard over
the years, and we answer them in this
session. It’s broken down into 16
categories to make it easy to navigate:
- Preparing content
- Preparing for
other people and vice versa
- Practicing &
memorizing
- Dealing with
nervousness
- Getting through
the first few minutes
- Presentation
tools & gadgets
- Dealing with
natural speech patterns
- I’ve been told
that I should…
- Presentation
styles
- Delivering
difficult slides and content
- Questions &
interruptions
- Dealing with
challenging people & situations
- Reading the
audience
- Handouts &
product samples
- Conference calls
and web meetings
- Presenting to
executives
FREE
"PowerPoint: The Basics" Course Included
This optional module will introduce you
to the basic features of PowerPoint.
The Fine Print
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Approx. run time: 2
hours, 45 minutes |
Approx. active time: [?] 4-5
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Course materials/takeaways:
- Preparation Worksheet
- PowerPoint Preparation
Tool
- Working with Your Default
Handout
- Decision Tree Handout
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Instructors:
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System requirements:
- Flash (free
download included
- PowerPoint (or other
presentation software)
- PDF reader (free download
included)
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License
duration: 3 months, 6
months with optional private
coaching session
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