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Advanced Presentation Skills Course
Public Advanced Presentation Skills Course
(Click here for Tailored Advanced Presentation Skills Training)This one-day course is for people who have considerable experience as presenters, and may well have been presenting for many years and for those who would like to 'freshen up' their presenting style.
Advanced Presentation courses are run by We will look at the value of preparation - and paradoxically, how the better prepared you are the better equipped you are to change your mind about which option to take when you are up against it. We will also look at handling difficult questions whilst maintaining your confidence.
This course is fun, challenging, effective and practical.
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Advanced Presentation Course Objectives:
* Creating key messages with finesse* Develop and refresh current skills
* Move to a higher level of presenting
* Adapting material to different levels of understanding
* Presenting confidently to large or small groups
* Tailor content and delivery for different audiences
* Rehearsing options for high stake presentations
* Using more creative approaches to presenting
* Refreshing old material
* Increased confidence in the presenting arena
* Handling awkward situations
* Dealing with getting wrong-footed
Advanced Presentation Course Programme
The IMPACT model of presenting:Using the mnemonic IMPACT as an easy to remember tool on the main points of presentation we will take a look at the dynamic in which presenting takes place and a look at the fundamentals of presenting:
The use of the Individual's best skills to convey a clear Message, well Prepared, with good Audience interaction, presented with Conviction and supported by the right Technical backup
First Presentations
Delegates will then make their first presentation of the day to camera.
Issues covered here are:
Feedback and Individual style
The difference between how we think we are doing and how we really are doing
Body language
The psychology of presenting
The myths and rules about what you are and are not allowed to do
Stretching Exercises
A series of short exercises designed to stretch people's awareness and capacity:
Presence. An exercise in audience contact
Everyday objects. An exercise in overlaying an ordinary text with an extra-ordinary message
Passion. An exercise in the use of passion to communicate
Talking up and talking down
Turning points. An exercise in using personal material to produce empathy and strong feeling in an audience
Prepared Presentations
Prepared presentations will be given by each in turn, assessed on the basis of the IMPACT model and worked with to begin developing the individual's best use of the presentation medium. Here we will cover:
How audiences and presenters interact
How to make use of that interaction
The real reasons for presenting
Ways of getting ideas across that are entertaining and stimulating
The relationship between nervous energy and expressive capacity
A reinforcement of the reasons for presenting
This presentation, and all the rest of the individual work during the day will be videoed. However, there will be no other play-back (other than the first, one-minute presentation). The video is for the delegates to take away for themselves.
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A brief discussion on the various arenas in which participants present. This is to get a picture of some of the challenges that arise in certain settings.
Presentations in a meeting setting
Here we look at the dynamics of 'working a table'. This will include the different types of questions you can ask, how to work the 'geography' of a table, how to open things up or close them down.
Preparation Tools
These are a number of different processes that emphasise the value of preparation and rehearsing different approaches to any presentation.
Use of media and structure
This exercise that looks at the various media available during a presentation.
A look at the uses of modular vs linear structure
Presenting to Different Levels of Understanding
Here we look at how to assess the levels of understanding within the audience, and deliver information with varied emphasis, without appearing to patronise.
30 Second Presentation
Each delegate will work with a model that allows people to put across a powerful presentation in 30 seconds.
This is a terrific tool for strongly influencing people when under pressure.
Creativity and 'Out of the box' thinking
How to put ideas across in ways that creates maximum impact. Here we look at the use of analogy and memorable images to enhance factual information.
Handling Difficult Questions
Techniques for:
Staying 'On the front foot'
Remaining confident and professional when you don't know the answer
Practising saying you don't know
Referring people to others
Being able to say what you do know
Treating each question as an opportunity, rather than a missile
Deliberate Misunderstanding
To demonstrate how effective analogies can be, we have a light-hearted exercise where people have to deal with being wrong-footed by the rest of the delegates who deliberately misinterpret what they are trying to present.
Summing up and Personal Take Out
We will spend a short time reviewing the work of the day.
Each person to identify and to make a brief presentation about:
What they know they will take from the Advanced Presentation Skills Course that they know they will use
What support or development they need over the coming months
What they need to do to ensure they practise
We would highly recommend that people do some kind of 'advanced presentation' as soon as possible to reinforce the work of the programme.
Advanced Presentation Skills Training
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