Presentation Skills: Effective Business Presentations

This popular session is a comprehensive overview of creating, preparing, and giving a business presentation. Length: full day.

Workshop Outline

Creating and Preparing a Presentation

• What is Your Message

• Identifying and Organizing Content to Maximize Effectiveness

• Incorporating the Audience’s Needs

• Dynamic Introductions and Effective Transitions

• Memorable Conclusions

Visual Aids

• Using Power Point to Support Your Message (not be the message)

• Using Microphones, White boards and Flipcharts

Platform Skills

• Posture/Gestures

• Voice Quality and Eye Contact

• Dealing Effectively with Q and A

• Considerations for Virtual Presentations

• Managing Your Anxiety

Participants will give a short presentation during the afternoon practice session.

Participant Take Aways

Your next presentation will engage, inform, and impress your audience because you will be able to:

• Organize information so it can be presented in the most effective manner.

• Open your presentations in a way that that engages the audience and creates interest about the topic.

• Use visual tools that maximize the message and doesn’t bore them to death.

• Develop strategies for a more effective speaking style.