Who is this workshop for?

Anyone who wants or needs to make good, effective and memorable. presentations. (We’ll concentrate on face to face presentations but the principles apply to online presentations as well.) We’ll cover the range of almost total beginner to advanced but a little experience of having given a few presentations is ideal.

Workshop Summary

Presentations are more of a need-to-have than a nice-to-have these days… and giving them is pretty easy. But giving good ones is a lot harder, as anyone who’s say through them well know the hard way!

We’ll use the current research into how people learn and how we are influenced to help us develop a set of skills that allow us to make presentations that are a level above the usual..

Workshop Aims & Objectives

Although we’ll tend to use PowerPoint as our default way of creating slides it’s important to know that the course looks at the principles of presenting, not the point-and-click of the software. This means you can use what you learn when you want to use any software - or none!

We’ll cover techniques for:

Structuring your presentations for long term impact
Getting the basics right
Techniques for controlling nerves
Stagecraft and looking the part
Designing slides to give them the best chance of working
Using props, visual aids and leave-behinds such as handouts

By the end of this L&D opportunity, delegates will be able to

By the end of today’s workshop you’ll have a system for creating ideas on demand, that you can use in an organisational setting, and ways to evaluate them.

Presentation Style

Semi-formal workshop

Tutor Biography

Simon is the author of Presentation Genius - the top ten best seller - and has twice been voted Speaker of the Year by the Professional Speaking Association. His workshop session at their national conference last year was described as “the highlight of the conference” by the National President Elect!

Client range from pre-start-ups to national charities, local authorities etc all the way up to multinationals such as Dell Computers.

Presentation Skills