Certified Communicator Public Speaking & Presentation Skills
Certified Communicator: Public Speaking & Presentation Skills
OBJECTIVES
- The art of building lasting rapport
- Highly effective communication models
- How to build co-operation and commitment
- To use powerful models for establishing good relationships with friends, colleagues and customers
- How to gain mutual understanding and flexibility in presentations
- How to reach agreement and satisfying various needs
- To significantly improve the standard of skills and influence of presentations
- To compare and improve upon the communication of information from a presenter to an audience
- To tackle nerves to ensure deliver of your message in a clear, relevant and meaningful way for a range of different groups or individuals
- To plan and create an impactful presentation, design visual aids, and prepare for audience interaction
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Company Directors, Supervisors, First Line Managers, Project Managers and General Managers, HR professionals, Sales teams and anyone who will ever need to influence others, either socially or commercially
- Anyone who has to negotiate a successful outcome from any meeting, either in a business or in a personal setting
COURSE OUTLINE
DAY 1 – Creating the Right Message
- Introduction to the course outlines and objectives
- Introductory presentations and feedback
- What makes a speaker appear confident
- Harnessing nerves in a creative way
- Everything we do influences others
- Key messages received from presentations and top presenter
- What are NLP & Emotional Intelligence – A basic introduction
- Improving congruity of message and heightening competencies
- Conscious and sub-conscious messages
DAY 2 – The Importance of Body Language
- The importance of good eye contact in presenting
- Body language and the part it plays in presentations
- Assertiveness and the presenter
- Stance, confidence and professionalism
- The non-verbal impact of presentations
- Using the body to create impact
- The importance of gestures
- Putting it all together
DAY 3 – Effective use of Voice and Tone
- Focussing on what we learned yesterday
- The vocal skills of top presenters
- Increased emphasis, tonality and tonal marking
- Breathing, vocal resonance projection and pitch
- The power of the pause and speed variation
- Language patterns and mutual respect
- Increasing the sensory versatilities of you audience
- End of day presentations
DAY 4 – Perfecting the Planning Process
- Planning for the perfect presentation
- Audience focussed objectives
- Researching the audience and setting time related objectives
- Venue considerations and why they are so important
- The differing skills for small or platform presentations
- Content and the message the audience receives
- Visual aids, what are they and how they should be used
- Presenting for maximum impact
DAY 5 – How to use Visual Aids Effectively
- Discussions of the skills learned and what they mean
- Designing impactful and appropriate visual aids
- The use, control and sequencing of marketing visuals
- Creating audience interaction with visual aids
- Powerful techniques for use with visuals
- Using PowerPoint effectively
- How to influence an audience and handle questions with ease
- The final presentations