Presentation Skills Open Course

Agenda

1. Handling nerves, feeling confident

• What makes someone a confident presenter?
• Why feeling nervous is a normal human reaction to being in the spotlight
• The mindset that will help you be a confident presenter
• Techniques for handling nerves
• The matrix of authentic presenting
• Pre-prepared individual presentations (3 minutes max) – practice activity

2. The 3Vs of powerful presenting

• The three primary channels of communication – Visual, Vocal and Verbal
• Bringing the 3Vs to life – practice activity

3. Avoiding 'death by PowerPoint'

• Hints and tips to make PowerPoint powerful
• Participants receive coaching from other participants and the trainer on their slides – what’s working and what needs to change?

4. Delivering with passion

• How to ensure that you are the presentation, not your slides
• Unscripted individual presentations – practice activity

5. Creating and structuring an audience-centred presentation

• Why the best presentations are audience-centred
• Organising materials to make presentations relevant and compelling

6. Getting your key messages across

• If you don’t get your key messages across clearly, you will never achieve the outcome you want
• Reducing the pre-prepared individual presentations from 3 minutes to just 90 seconds – individual activity

7. Managing audience attention spans

• How to keep your audience engaged
• How attention typically varies throughout a presentation
• Review the structure of the 90-second presentations and improving them – group activity

8. Actions and next steps

• Review
• Personal action planning
• Next steps