Anyone that wants to deliver presentations more effectively or dislikes standing up in front of an audience. This course is ideal for individuals that present regularly to clients or colleagues, such as salespeople, marketing professionals and managers.
Stage 1 - The Course
- Three key factors that can make anyone a successful presenter
Planning and preparation
- The importance of identifying a clear objective
- Structuring your presentation with the end result in mind
- Selecting material for quality not quantity
- What holds an audience's attention and what sends them to sleep?
- Use of notes and prompt cards
- The antidotes for pre delivery nerves
Structuring the talk
- Introductions with impact
- Creating clear benefits for your audience
- Structuring your content clearly
- Headlines, body and summary
- Using persuasive language
- Use of pause and silence
- Closing the presentation memorably
The Delivery
- Standing and gesturing to look confident and credible
- Vocal skills to give authority and projection to the voice
- The latest paralinguistic techniques
- Pausing and emphasis to add impact
- Question and answer sessions: Handling them concisely
- Tips on using visual aids effectively
- Practice sessions: with video feedback
Stage 2 - MP3 Learning Bites
- Delivering presentations with impact
- Dealing with nerves
- Effective communication
- Thinking on your feet
- The art of being assertive
Stage 3 - eLearning
After you have attended the course, a modular e-learning programme will be delivered to your inbox.
These interactive, bite-sized follow-ups (completed at a time to suit you) will cement the learning from the course and remind you of useful techniques for your next 'real world' presentation.
What will I get out of it?
- All your presentations will be recorded, so you can analyse how to improve and see how you've progressed
- Genuine confidence and self belief in your public speaking skills
- A clear purpose in your presentation, and a structure focused on the desired outcome
- A checklist to help you prepare well, even with limited time
- The ability to attract and maintain audience interest
- Skills to handle notes and prompt cards whilst keeping your audience engaged
- The opportunity to evaluate others' presenting and learn from their performance
- Control of your body language and your nerves
- Control of your speech and improved awareness of your vocal capacity
- Practice and application of the entire course content throughout the two days, to build both your competence and your confidence
- Recommended reading list
- A blended learning experience allowing you to continue to develop skills in the workplace
How will your organisation benefit?
- Better internal communication skills
- More persuasive and professional presentations to clients and external stakeholders
- Concise and clear presentations save time for other tasks
- Trained employees can create a best practice model for presenting across the company
- Increased confidence and impact for employees even outside of delivering presentations
Delivery Style
All of Reed Learning's courses are delivered in an active and engaging way to help delegates create real change. We use a robustly-designed and independently-accredited competency framework to ensure each course is delivered in a way suitable to a variety of learning styles. Professional Presentation Skills uses a mix of theory, roleplay, practice presentations and exercises to give delegates a practical toolkit to deliver better presentations every time. Like all of our courses, it follows our Do-Review-Learn-Apply Model:
How do we make sure you see results?
Our training doesn't begin and end on the day. We have a five-stage evaluation model that means delegates are challenged to set real objectives before and during the course. Every delegate uses the personalised training and insight from the facilitator to create meaningful actions that will help them make a difference at work. We follow-up eight weeks after the course to make sure that these actions have been implemented, and all delegates are entitled to re-attend the course for free as a refresher. Our process is so robust we've received accreditation from the ISO and the Matrix Standard.
The Trainers
All of Reed Learning's trainers are part of our faculty. Entrance to our faculty is thoroughly assessed through our training competency framework, and all of our trainers are constantly challenged to continuously develop their knowledge to deliver training of the highest standard. Trainers who deliver this course include:
Isabel Kennedy: Isabel is part of our training faculty and regularly delivers this course. She is a CTP qualified learning and development practitioner with over 12 years’ experience of people management, sales and leadership training, having begun her career as a manager at Marks and Spencer. Isabel has devised and delivered a broad range of training for Reed Learning. She specialises in sales and communication courses, leading by example. Her facilitative and flexible style means that no question or issue is too great or too small to address, and her inspirational delivery consistently receives great feedback from delegates.
Clients who have chosen this course include:
- EDF Energy
- Halifax Bank of Scotland
- Royal and Sun Alliance
- RWE
- Toyota
- Royal Holloway University of London