One-Day Agenda

Delivering a presentation effectively involves: Planning, Preparing, Practice and Presentation. Presentation also involves evaluating the impact of the presentation and making necessary changes for future delivery. Presentation Skills addresses these steps and the participants, develop a presentation and present it. The presentation is videotaped, evaluated by the class, changes made and presented once again. This is an invaluable class for sales people, employees involved in the transfer of training knowledge, anyone desiring to learn how to develop and deliver information effectively and with style.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the four stages of delivering a winning presentation
• Describe the elements of a winning presentation and how they are determined
• Explain the importance of the three steps of presentation preparation
• Consider the role of adult learning principles in presentation success
• Explain effective audience involvement and presentation techniques
• Practice using PowerPoint in presentation development

Planning: The Foundation of A Successful Presentation

The Three Steps Involved In Successful Presentations

Determining Your Audience

Determining Your Purpose and Desired Outcome

Presentation Preparation

• Gearing Up and Making It Personal
• Your Focal Statement
• Your Message Overview
• Determining the Key Points In Your Message

Presentation Opening

• Engaging Your Audience
• First Impressions
• Generating Ideas For our Opening
• How Much Time To Spend On Your Opening
• Constructing Your Presentation Opening

Key Points

• The Number of Points To Be Included In Your Presentation
• Guidelines For Key Points
• Constructing Your Presentation Key Points

The Close

• The Memorable Close
• Generating Your Presentation Close

Evaluating Your Presentation

• Evaluation Questions
• Adult Learning Principles and How They Relate to Presentation
• Building Your Presentation In PowerPoint
• Developing Your PowerPoint Slide Titles Using Outline View
• Bulleting Key Points
• Developing Notes while Working On Your Presentation
• Developing Handouts While Working On Your Presentation
• Spell Checking and Grammar Checking
• Adding Transitions To Your Slides
• Adding Animation To Individual Slides
• To Sound or Not to Sound? olp
• Rehearing Your Presentation in PowerPoint

Summary, Review and Introduction to Part II

One-Day Agenda

This workshop provides the opportunity for participants to utilize the information and PowerPoint presentation skills developed in Part I by presenting, video taping and critiquing the presentation for constructive feedback.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how to effectively communicate information during a presentation
• Describe the importance of first impressions
• Explain the importance of audience engagement and rapport
• Explain how to ask questions to generate discussion and how to control discussion during presentation delivery
• Practice presentation skills: body language, tone of voice, engagement and delivery
• End a presentation with summarization, questions and gratitude
• View a video tape of their presentation, assess their performance and receive constructive feedback

Presenting

• Effectively Communicating Your Information
• First Impressions
• Building Rapport and Controlling the Presentation
• Questions and Discussion
• Ending Your Presentation

Taping

• Presenting Live On Tape

Critiquing the Presentations

• Evaluating A Presentation
• Opening
• Key Points
• Back Up Data
• The Close
• Presentation Style
• Body Language
• Tone of Voice
• Presenter’s Animation
• The PowerPoint Presentation

Summary and Discussion