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Presentation Skills and Public Speaking Workshop

This one-day workshop helps you improve your presentation and public speaking skills, and covers planning and delivering a talk or presentation, with or without a computer. Coping with nerves, techniques of speaking to keep people interested, handling difficulties, tips for success and use of visual aids. No computers are used but delegates are expected to deliver a 5 minute presentation on a subject of their choice. They will also have opportunity to re-work the presentation and deliver it again following feedback. Change a run-of-the-mill presentation into a dynamic and attention grabbing one.

Course Outline

  • Benefits of presentations for speakers. How to change your mindset to make a presentation enjoyable for you
  • The objectives of communication
  • Voice exercises to improve your vocal fitness and control
  • Planning a presentation
  • Consider the audience – learn about making your presentation fit with their thoughts
  • The structure - methods to impart the message
  • Delivering a presentation
  • Learn about projecting your voice and controlling the room
  • Understand how improvisation can make your presentation flow and be flexible
  • Discover how to use body language to manage the audiencee
  • Learn how to cope with stage fright – learn methods for controlling the nerves
  • Beginning and ending a presentation - learn tips for success
  • Use of visual aids. How to help the communication
  • The techniques of speaking
  • Question techniques – learn how using your questions, and audience questions, can improve communication
  • Handling difficulties confidently

Who would benefit from the course?

Anyone who needs to speak in public and wishes to deliver an effective talk or presentation.

Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for attending this workshop. Delegates will be asked to deliver a 5-minute talk on a subject of their choice, and will receive comprehensive and helpful feedback. There will be an opportunity to re-work the talk during the day based on input from the course and is then delivered again near the end of the workshop, when delegates are feeling more confident, as it also to gives them the opportunity to put in to practice what they have learned during the day.