Business Communication. Sharpen your communication skills.

Every time you present to someone it forms an impression, giving you the potential for gain or loss. Over time, if you maximise the number of positive impressions you leave when you present, it will give you an edge in getting others to act, and in producing the outcomes you want.

This presentation skills training course will enable you to be perceived as articulate and competent – through how you plan and deliver presentations. You’ll learn how to handle presentation fears and nerves and how to understand your audience. You’ll learn how to open and ‘hook’ an audience to listen, and how to choose, plan and structure your content. You’ll learn how to handle Q&A and how to make a memorable impression, and when and how to use (and not use) PowerPoint.

The philosophy of course is that a presentation can take many forms - from a one-on-one presentation, to a small meeting presentation, to a boardroom presentation and to a large audience presentation. The content is applicable to all these environments.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• improve your skill in handling presentation fears
• utilise techniques in understanding your audience and in forming the key message you want the audience to retain and/or act upon
• appropriately choose presentation content
• structu