Effective Presentations

Effective Presentations™ is a two-day business presentation skills training program specifically designed for industry professionals who want to communicate their ideas, recommendations, services and products in a clear and convincing manner.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

In the course, you will learn how to capture customer attention, get your point across and feel comfortable while presenting.

By the end of the two days, you will be able to:

• Quickly determine appropriate information to include in your talk.
• Structure the talk in a way that gets your message across clearly and convincingly.
• Communicate essential information in a logical, easy to understand manner.
• Ensure that your presentation meets the needs of the audience.
• Look and feel natural, confident, professional and appealing.
• Design powerful visual aids and use them effectively.

WORKSHOP FOCUS

The workshop focuses on the content and structure of a talk. Effective Presentations teaches concrete, practical techniques and provides lots of time to practice each competency. Effective Presentations is not a public speaking course!

Throughout the program, participants work on a job-specific presentation of their choice and learn the following:

• Prepare a talk
  • How to determine the focus of the presentation.
  • How to decide on the information to include.
  • How to structure a talk so that it keeps the audience interested and engaged.
• Deliver a talk
  • How to get and keep audience attention and interest.
  • How to remember what to say and when to say it without using notes.
  • How to keep on topic and not ramble.
  • How to look natural, expressive and professional.
  • What to include on visual aids.
  • How to layout effective visual aids.
  • How to use and present visual aids.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

Get lots of practice

• Two-thirds of the program is devoted to practice and application.
• Immediate feedback on presentations.

Look and feel comfortable

• Everyone is encouraged to be himself/ herself--no artificial or "canned" gestures are ever used.
• Techniques bring out your natural, hidden expressiveness, so you will never look or feel phony.

Focus your talk

• A structuring "road map" ensures that every presentation stays focused and is presented in clear, audience-oriented terms.
• Visual aid design techniques ensure that every visual instantly communicates a precise message in simple and beneficial terms.
• Visual aid design techniques allow presenters to stay focused and cover all important information and data without ever using notes.

Learn practical skills

• Everything is totally focused on a "business" type of presentation. Covers both technical and non-technical presentations.
• All practice presentations use an actual topic of the participant's choice.
• Clear tangible "how to" steps and real world examples are provided for every concept.

Get individualized feedback and encouragement

• Every presentation is video-taped, critiqued and then reviewed privately.
• Instructor provides individual feedback during one-on-one reviews of video-taped sessions.

WORKSHOP & TAKE HOME MATERIALS

Participant Workbooks: All participants receive a professionally bound "how to" workbook containing learning guides, special templates, worksheets, illustrations, examples and helpful hints to communicate effectively.

Video-Tape: All presentations are video-taped. Participants take their video tape home at the completion of the program.

Structuring Template: Materials include a pull-out template that serves as both a guide for ensuring that talk is properly structured and a job aid that identifies the "how to" of each part of an effective presentation.

Small Class Size—Because this two-day workshop is intensive and "hands-on," attendance is limited to 10 people per session. No pre-work is required.

Effective Communications is licensed through the Commtec Communications Group, Toronto, Canada

If you aren't planning
to make a point
there's no point
in making the presentation.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

	Sales & Marketing Personnel
	CEOs and Presidents
	Plant Mangers
	Customer Service Reps
	Cost Estimators
	Accountants
	Purchasing Personnel
	Tool Buyers
	HR Managers
	Engineers
	Designers
	Training & Production Mangers
	Trainers
	Recruiters
	Shop Floor Team Leaders
	Suppliers & Vendors
	Hourly Employees working in a team-based environment