Presentation Skills
Effective presentation skills are vital for sharing business information. This course helps you to plan, design and deliver an effective presentation that will connect with and engage your audience.
£150 +VAT
Presentation Skills
£150 +VAT
365 days’ access
This course will enable you to
- Deliver effective presentations to share information, win support for new ideas and enhance your reputation
- Plan and structure successful presentations
- Capture your audience’s attention using the right design and structure in PowerPoint
- Tell stories to connect with your audience
- Prepare effectively for presentations
- Build rapport with your audience using a variety of verbal and non-verbal communication skills
About the course
Whatever your role, or the organisation you work in, effective presentation skills are an important part of your professional portfolio, and presentations will be vital for sharing business information. Being able to project an air of confidence and hold the room are, of course, key skills for presenters, but there’s something equally important that needs to take place behind the scenes.
In this course, explore how to deliver effective presentations to share information, win support for new ideas and enhance your reputation. Learn about the importance of planning, design and structure, and how to employ story-telling to engage your audience.
Contents
Presentations and why they matter
The ultimate communication challenge
Why presentations still matter in the workplace
What’s special about presenting?
Key skills for effective presenting
Common presentation challenges
Your natural presentation style
Planning and structuring a presentation
Thinking it through
Applying the GAMMOC model of communication
Thinking about goals and outcomes
Thinking about audience and context
The opening
Structuring information
Storyboarding like Hollywood
The end
Designing and using slides
Designing great slides
The role of PowerPoint
Principles of good design
Designing slides with data
Thinking about images
Persuasion and storytelling
Storytelling
Persuasive strategies
Why stories are so powerful
What makes a good story?
Final preparations
Last minute prep!
Drafting and using notes
Preparing yourself
Managing nerves
Warming up
Delivering an impactful presentation
In the moment
Building rapport
Using your voice
Using your body
Encouraging participation
Delivering a remote presentation
Handling questions
Dealing with hecklers
Author
Anna Faherty
Writer, lecturer and consultant working across the publishing, museum and charity sectors.
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Syed Quadri –
The course was clearly presented and easily accessible. Content is concise and relevant. Overall I got what I wanted from this course.
Shekhar Goel –
It was quite refreshing, and very interesting.
Elizabeth Gobotswang –
This course was quite amazing and has really upgraded my presentation skills, I feel more confident. Now I feel I can face the audience confidently and prepare a good presentation and can handle myself much better in case the presentation somehow goes wrong
Yiwen Chen –
useful tips
David Machin –
Interesting course and gives you some good insights and tips to help with those horrible presentations that we all love to give!
Christina Maher –
Very practical tips and tricks for delivering an effective presentation.
Kate Jameson –
I really liked the tips from Anna. Thank you.
Gillian Sayer –
I really enjoyed this course. It recognised that most people are nervous when giving presentations and gave real strategies for dealing with that. I always like the format of a mix of videos and articles and the chance to see other people’s ideas in the discussion topics. Although some theory is referred to, the course isn’t bogged down in it and it allows you to go off and read around that if you want to. I learned a lot from this course.
Matthew Cooper –
A useful variety of presentation skills, to help you handle nerves, provide meaningful speeches and improve audience understanding.
Valerie Tay –
section on remote presentations was very helpful
Joseph Wheeler –
Good course notes
Simon Anderson –
A lot of the content will be familiar but there were a few good tips I hadn’t considered before that make the course worthwhile.
Clive Hurst –
I enjoyed this course
Oaboloka Chabata –
I am feeling equiped and more confident to make a presentation
Joyce Rankae –
Learnt so much that building rapport as well as voice and body language in presentation are very important
Jose Joseph –
Very good
Agnieszka Pietrzyk –
useful tips about how to present – including planning presentation, building rapport with audience, using relevant voice and gestures, dealing with obstacles during presentation
Damanpreet singh Sandhu –
amazing
Stephen Robinson –
Not having had any formal training on preparing and making presentations I found this course very informative and very helpful Will be using the download to guide me through future presentations
Ntsholeng Thabana –
This has been very impactful and have upskilled me on delivering my presentations.
Leya Kasalwe Musunga –
great topics where covered
David Willder –
Anna, very competent presenter
Pascaline Sefawe –
I am equipped with all the necssary presentation skills.
Darren Todd –
Very useful
Carmen Agius –
I really enjoyed this course. It was well set out and a good balance between reading and video content. I liked the point structure at the start and very clear notes and language
Theresa English –
Very useful and covers a really good range of topics.
Joanne Presland –
It covered a wide range of aspects of presentations
Marcelle Wilson –
Easy to follow
Christine Christopher –
Focused on areas relevant and practical in improving my presentation skills
Mark Quinn –
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Kui Yoon Chong –
It provides a lot of relevant information on how to improve on presentation skills to the audience who are not familiar to you.
Catherine Mary Hastings –
Very informative course.
Peter Alexander –
Very good gives plenty of ideas to ensure presentations are suited to audience
Sarah Cokayne –
Tracey Alexander –
New role will require presentation to senior members of staff. This course gave me information on how to improve my presentation skills and how to deliver a clear and focused presentation.
Jacqui Lomas –
Relevance to my current role
Peter Shaefer –
solid advice
Amit Kumar Maheeput –
Hints and tips of good presentation skills were provided
Elaine Barnard –
I am a team leader within the company so have to be able to present information to my direct reports and peers, and also other colleagues in other departments
Debbie Phillipson –
wanted ideas on how to present better
Betty Logie –
Very useful practical information. I am able to apply to a current assignment
Danielle Osbourne –
Cathal Coffey –
Hannah Parker –
Useful information to take forward with me
Flora C –
Kath Gunn –
It gave me lots of ideas and tips on lots of areas of presenting – things I hadn’t thought about before
Libushka Hartley –
engaging. I liked the mini videos throughout as they brought the information to life, and given it was about presenting, it was good to see people presenting and their different styles.
Catherine Scully –
Sarah Rita Mangope –
The course brought new concepts that I did not know but also enhanced those that I was already aware of
Leggy Bojosi –
I have been preparing and delivering presentations without any technical knowledge to refer to or to bench mark with
Chandana Mukherjee –
It did meet my objectives by giving me very good tips on how to tackle challenging situations or questions, & the important things to concentrate on.
Teresa Fitt –
Made me realise there is a lot more that needs to go into the preparation of a presentation to get it right.
Syarifah Ruhaida –
SIMPLE AND DIRECT. UNDERSTANDABLE
Patrick Fitzpatrick –
It met my objectives as it will help in my future presentations. This is particularly the case when I will be presenting numerical data to boards of directors on the financial performance and position of their businesses