How does it work? You come to the course with an audience and topic - PDF document

There are five quite different skills employed by engaging and memorable presenters. Many people are competent in one or two of these – Complete Presentation Skills will rapidly improve your ability in all five. How does it work? You come to the course with an audience and topic in mind. Then over the two days you design and deliver a presentation to the other course participants. Throughout the course you’ll receive ideas, advice and coaching from your trainer and feedback from your colleagues. You’ll be regularly trying out the concepts that you learn and applying them to the presentation you create. At the end on the course you’ll have: a video of the presentation you give a slide­deck to accompany that presentation a video of your delivery coaching session a methodology for reducing any nervousness you feel a 100­page manual including in­depth instructions for using the SpeakerMap™ ongoing free advice if you contact us countless new ideas for improving the effectiveness of your future presentations new confidence and enthusiasm for creating and delivering presentations. 1. Turn your knowledge into engaging presentation content Many presenters find it hard to distill their wide­ranging knowledge into focused presentation content. Bored, confused and overloaded audiences are the result. By using the Effective Speaking SpeakerMap™ you’ll quickly identify the key message of your presentation and then structure your material in a way that will keep your audience attentive and engaged. You’ll learn: an easy step­by­step design process that even experienced presenters find a revelation how to stop spinning your wheels and get your presentation planned in less time than you thought possible how to come across as an expert without overloading your audience with detail the secrets to engaging your audience that anyone can master. As you apply your learning to your presentation project you’ll get ideas, advice and coaching from your trainer and feedback from your course colleagues.

2. How to use PowerPoint to stimulate your audience Are you an expert at death­by­bullet­point? Or maybe you avoid PowerPoint because it’s caused you pain in the past. PowerPoint is an excellent tool when properly used. It can be used to create handouts, speaker notes and slides to help the audience understand your message. Unfortunately most people have no idea how to make the most of it and seem more like projectionists than presenters. Find out: why the traditional way of using PowerPoint is the worst possible way of conveying information how poor PowerPoint is probably undermining your expertise and credibility how to stop designing slides that you have to read to your audience an elegant format that will have you creating stimulating slides in minutes how to (secretly) use PowerPoint as your notes without covering your slides with words. 3. Video feedback so that you can see for yourself how you’re coming across. You’ll watch a short segment of your presentation on video. This sounds daunting but participants often find it one of the most valuable parts of our courses. We watch the video with you, guiding you what to look for. After the course we upload the video to a secure website so that you have continued access to it. You’ll see that the way you feel when you’re presenting is not the same as how you look, boosting your confidence You may notice some mannerisms you’d like to eliminate – If they’re important your coach will help you eliminate them (you may notice some mannerisms which your audience simply doesn’t notice – we ignore those!) Your coaching session will be recorded and uploaded too, so that you can watch it again later and see the impact of the changes you made.

4. In­depth coaching to transform your delivery skills This is what makes Complete Presentation Skills a unique learning­experience – the opportunity to work on the main delivery skills that you, as an individual, will most benefit from improving. So you not only learn what you need to improve and why – you’ll also be taught how to improve and will get the opportunity to try it out. Having watched a short video­replay of your presentation, you and your coach will agree on one or two aspect to work on – the areas that will most make a difference to how you’ll come across the next time you’re presenting. Our “?s” coaching methodology will reconnect you to the techniques that you normally unconsciously use in everyday conversation to engage and influence your audience. You’ll become relaxed and in control of what you say and how you say it. We’ll focus on your individual needs and also cover the following areas: how to incorporate the power of silence – naturally how to pace your presentation to the needs of your audience how to stop being a “click­talk” presenter how to work with your notes and the remote how to add emphasis without sounding artificial and stagey how to speak in an engaging, dynamic way. how to naturally pace your presentation and stop rushing creating a sense of enthusiasm and commitment to your topic create and change contrast and mood as you speak engaging your audience at an emotional, as well as logical, level how to look confident – even if you’re not how to eliminate “ums and “ahs” You’ll also observe the other course participants being coached in implementing these techniques. That means you’ll get a sense of the impact of the techniques from an audience perspective. 5. Identify and eliminate your nervousness buttons Nervousness about speaking in front of a group is a very common experience. A speaker’s confidence is also a key factor in how credible they appear. Because of its importance we put a particular emphasis on handling nervousness and developing confidence in our training. We’ll introduce you to psychologically­based strategies that you can use to significantly increase your confidence. In this session you’ll: identify the root causes of your nervousness discover how to reduce the nervousness you feel reduce the unhelpful pressure you put on yourself start to enjoy speaking in public. We take nervousness seriously. The strategies we teach you are based on Rational Emotive Behaviour Training – a proven cognitive­behavioural technique. One of your trainers, Tony Burns gained a psychology degree in his quest to understand performance anxiety. Tony has since completed a post­graduate Primary Certificate in REBT with New Zealand’s foremost REBT specialist – Wayne Froggatt. Having once frozen in front of a group Tony has the experience and qualifications to help you seriously reduce the affect that nervousness has on you.

6. How to handle tricky audience situations Perhaps the greatest challenge to a presenter is the fact that their presentation is a live event in front of an audience. Despite the best planning and rehearsal, the uncertainty of the audience’s reaction remains an underlying source of nervousness. In this module we look at what an audience (or members) might do, and to develop and practice psychological and practical strategies to handle this. We’ll explore some of the challenging situations caused by audiences. You’ll find out: the fail­proof strategy for handling people talking in the audience how to handle distractions without turning a hair how to deal politely with people who interrupt you constantly how to handle an angry audience member without losing your cool. Typical situations include audiences: asking difficult questions disagreeing or point out flaws in the content looking bored talking to somebody else in the audience walking out. You’ll choose a situation that concerns you that you’d like to handle better. Through our coaching you’ll develop and practice strategies for successfully dealing with the situation. At the end of the session, you’ll feel significantly more able to calmly handle the uncertainties you may encounter. Who should attend? Complete Presentation Skills is a comprehensive presentation skills training course that covers all five facets of presenting in depth. It is suitable for: inexperienced presenters who want comprehensive training experienced presenters who are ready to take their skills to the next level anyone who has an important presentation coming up. For more information contact: Tony Burns Business Development Manager Effective Speaking e: tony@effectivespeaking.co.nz p: 04 528 4561 w: www.effectivespeaking.co.nz