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Advanced Presentation Skills
'Getting Your Message Across Powerfully And Professionally'

Who Should Attend?
Senior Managers, and other Senior Personnel who have already had some professional training in Presentation Skills and who wish to enhance and improve their current ability to deliver top quality presentations.

About the Programme
This course is the next step for those who have already experienced basic presentation skills training. It is aimed at Senior Personnel who seek to enhance their abilities to impress groups and audiences. Audiences, whether large or small, now expect high quality professional performances, and key decisions are often taken as a result of such presentations. People are often judged on their presentation skills. A quality presentation builds respect and trust. This high-powered programme provides the tools and techniques to achieve top level performance in your presentations.

Course Objectives

• To revitalise and enhance performance by acquainting delegates with powerful techniques for effective results-orientated presentations
• To provide techniques for handling audiences in question and answer sessions
• To show delegates how to prepare visual aids which support the presentation
• To make delegates aware of how modern technology can help presentations, as well as reinforcing the basic key principles of a top class presentation

What You Will Gain

• Delegates will acquire a new momentum for their personal development, increased confidence and a greater ability to deliver top class presentations
• They will learn to speak naturally, persuasively, and effectively to audiences, both large and small
• They will learn how to deal confidently with interruptions and difficult situations
• Delegates will work in a stimulating environment that will provide energy and enthusiasm while they prepare quality presentations for delivery to other delegates and the tutor
• Delegates will be given constructive and developmental feedback so that they leave the course more confident in their ability to deliver quality presentations

Programme Contents
DAY ONE

• Understanding Communication
  • Verbal & Non-Verbal, The Contribution Of Each
  • Delivering Team Presentations
  • Establishing Credibility
• Developing Rapport
  • Know Your Audience
  • What Do They Want To See & Hear
• The Key Techniques For Handling Questions & Interruptions
  • How To Buy Time & Collect Your Thoughts
  • Anticipating Audience Reaction & Planning Your Response

DAY TWO

• How To Use Your Voice
  • Articulation & Modulation
  • Tips On Speaking With A Natural Style
• Making Visual Aids Work
  • Preparing Overheads
  • How You Present Using Visual Aids
• Speaking Differently
  • Keeping Your Audience Involved With Enthusiasm
  • Working With Your Own Natural Style
• Extensive Use Of Camera Recording & Review

Practical work will include:
Short presentations from each delegate. Some of these will be recorded on dvd & played back for analysis, etc.

Pre-course work is mandatory for this training, as there is restricted time to prepare the presentations during the programme.

2 Days - Non-Residential

Delegate spaces available on the following course dates:

Before the course each delegate will be asked to complete a Pre-Course Briefing Form to determine their individual objectives for attending the course. These objectives will be used by the tutor to give on-target training that is focused on the individual delegates.

At the end of the course each delegate will be asked to complete a Personal Development Plan that can be used as part of future appraisals and that will also be an important tool for management reference.

Total investment includes - Training Materials, Lunch & Refreshments.