Presentations for Professionals
May 14 & 15, 2012
November 14 & 15, 2012
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm; 6 PDU; $359: Baldwin
Instructor: Mark Caccavale
This Course introduces best practices that will help you deliver a customer focused and streamline presentation that will allow you to move your audience to action. The workshop will focus on a few key foundational elements that will enable you to better prepare and deliver a great presentation.
It is truly a hands-on application. Core elements of effective presentations are introduced to the class and participants will take that information and immediately apply it to a presentation they are working on or one that they have recently delivered. There are several practice sessions in front of the class, culminating in a presentation that is recorded and provided to the participants at the end of the workshop.
Learning Objectives:
- Practice in a lab like environment to "test" new skills and stretch presentation limits
- Provide a practical approach to organizing and delivering a more effective presentation
- Obtain immediate feedback on presentation skills to inspire new approaches
- Learn the "traps" presentations and presenters fall into and identify strategies to stay on track
Target Audience: Professionals at every level of an organization can benefit from the workshop, mid level managers and below would be more of the target audience and may get the most out of the workshop.
Course Outline:
Introduction / Objectives
Everyone's got a story, right?
- Stats about presentations
- Examples of good stories
Idea generation
- No idea is a bad one
- As many as possible
- Activity - Generate ideas to include in your presentation
Buckets
- Group like ideas together
- Which order should they be placed in - Which are most important to audience?
- WIIFM - What's In It For Them
- How many main ideas are there? Telephone number / SS Number
- Activity - Work on their presentation and apply discussion points
"Picture is worth many many words"
- How do we bring these ideas to life someday?.
- Pictures, Data, Quotes, Video, Audio, Props, Demos?
- Activity - Think through what they may want to include in future
Where do I start? I hate long goodbyes
- Let's start at the end?
- First Impressions
- Activity - Build Your Opening and your Closing
Let's start making Soup!!!
- PowerPoint Best Practices
- Slide sequence
- Too Much SOUP!!
Presentation Tips
- UR, UM, AH!!!
- Your voice
- Presence
SMILE!!
- Presentation Practice
- Presentations
- Feedback
Videos