Learning Method: Instructor-led Classroom Learning Duration: 1/2 day
Overview:
In this course, students will learn how to develop effective and persuasive presentations. Includes audience analysis, building presentations, the presentation process, handling Q&A sessions, and fundamentals of persuasion.
At Course Completion:
After completing this course, students will know how to: Identify and use effective presentations, use different types of presentations, plan a presentation, and determine primary and secondary objectives. Analyze the audience, determine the supporting material, and learn about different types of supporting material. Build a presentation, develop an introduction, capture the audience attention, organize the body of the presentation, use transitions, and conclude the presentation. Incorporate visual aids, understand the types of visual aids, display, and create visual aids. Use a presentation process, prepare before speaking in a presentation, deliver a presentation, and use nonverbal communication aids. Handle the questions effectively, approach the question and answer session, responsibilities during a session, and handle challenging questions. Persuade a presentation, understand the goals of persuasion, organize a persuasive presentation, and use the methods of persuasion.
Course Outline:
Lesson 1: Fundamentals of presentation
- Effective presentations
- Types of presentations
- Aspects of planning a presentation
Lesson 2: Audience analysis and supporting material
- Audience analysis
- Supporting materials
Lesson 3: Building presentations
- Build presentations
- Accomplish Introduction
- Organization of the body of the presentation
- Effective conclusion
Lesson 4: Presentation mechanics
- Visual aids
- Understand visual aids
Lesson 5: Presentation process
- Extemporaneous speaking
- Preparation for speaking
- Deliver a presentation
- Nonverbal communication
Lesson 6: Question-and-answer session
- Handle questions effectively
- Handle challenging questions
Lesson 7: Fundamentals of persuasion
- Understand persuasion
- Prepare to persuade
- Organize a persuasive presentation
- Methods of persuasion
