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Description
At some point in your career you will be asked to make a presentation. This may be something you do on a regular basis, such as at a team or management meeting, where you rely upon your everyday communication skills to impart information. There are, however, occasions where you will be asked to present information to an audience in a more formal manner. Most people find this to be a challenging experience.
What topics are covered in this Presentation Skills online course?
- What is a presentation?
- Why make a presentation?
- Preparation
- Defining your objective
- Researching your topic
- Narrowing down the information
- Knowing your audience
- Planning the flow
- Structuring the presentation
- Choosing techniques to use
- Choosing tools or aids to use
- Anticipating audience questions
- Practice, practice, practice!
- Delivery
- Three choices for delivery
- Interacting with the audience
- Dealing with audience questions
- Dealing with difficult people
- Body language
- Nerves!
- Being ready on the day
- Evaluation
- How did you do?
Learning objectives
By the end of the course, trainees will be able to:
- Outline the objective(s) to be achieved through a presentation e.g. what you expect people to know, to do
- Prepare the structure of a presentation
- Plan the content of a presentation
- Prepare and use appropriate aids in support of a presentation, such as visual, audio, handouts
- Identify answers to likely questions raised by the presentation
- Evaluate own performance
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements.
Course assessment and certification
On successful completion of the final assessment (80% pass mark required), a downloadable certificate is immediately available.
