Presentation Skills
OVERVIEW:
Presentation Skills includes a coaching process where participants receive video-recorded feedback to improve business communication. This course is for anyone who makes formal or informal presentations, leads meetings, or communicates to groups. The focus of Presentation Skills is on identifying and developing each participant’s individual presentation style, organizing content for your intended audience, minimizing distractions and nervousness and maximizing behaviors that inspire confidence.
Get to the Point
- Create clear, succinct, listener-focused messages, designed for impact and persuasiveness
- Avoid “data-dumping” to be more persuasive and influencing
- Structure communications/presentations for clarity, and actionable impact
- Customize presentation for intended audience
- Strengthen personal presence, project confidence and build credibility
- Eliminate any distracting idiosyncrasies and nervousness through skillful use of eye contact, posture, gestures, voice, pausing, and rhythm
- Be more present and mindful in all of your communications
- Listen effectively. Handle difficult questions. Keep conversations positive and forward-moving
- Apply a quick DNA analysis to increase your targeted impact
- Adjust content and approach to match various technical levels and demographics
- Expand or contract information to match time constraints and listener needs
- Cultivate and encourage interaction, while managing interruptions
- Handle difficult questions and challenges, using the “ART” model
- Keep conversations positive and forward-moving
- Defuse hostility/negativity and reinforce key messages