The Whole Package
Overview
What is this course about?
This comprehensive and hands on course covers all aspects of presentations, from planning and designing powerful presentations using current design strategies to mastering the delivery of both face to face presentations and online webinars.
In addition, this course introduces an extensive range of strategies to optimise your environment for maximum impact, explore the power of storytelling in conveying your message, develop engaging support resources to enhance your message and apply effective techniques to manage challenging questions with confidence.
Who should attend?
This is the perfect course for anyone involved in all aspects of presentations, including planning, preparation, design and delivery.
If you want to explore new slide design approaches to ensure you are at the cutting edge of presentation delivery, master the techniques of powerful presenting to influence your audience with ease, or run engaging and interactive web conferences to capture the interest of your remote audience, this course will provide a comprehensive and fun range of tools, strategies and techniques to help you succeed.
Whether you are new to presenting, or simply want to enhance your approach to presentations, this course is for you.
Need a tailored course?
Whilst we have designed this course to cover a comprehensive range of skills and strategies relating to perfecting the design of online and face to face presentations, mastering the delivering or managing the audience, we understand that you may have specific areas you wish to target within your organisation. We can adapt our training to focus on specific areas for development, provide an additional follow up training programme or offer coaching and mentoring for subsequent presentations.
At Star Training we understand the importance of achieving value for money with your training budget, so if you would like to discuss how we could design a bespoke course for your organisation, please contact us.
Aims
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Design cutting edge presentations for webinars and face to face delivery
- Employ powerful storytelling and visualisation techniques
- Conquer your nerves to deliver with confidence
- Apply simple techniques to handle challenging audiences and questions
- Organise the environment to achieve maximum impact
Complementary courses
If you are new to delivering presentations, why not try our Presentation Essentials course for an introduction to effective presentation planning, design and delivery.
For more experienced individuals, why not try our comprehensive one day course: Perfecting Design for the latest planning and design tips and techniques.
If you dread the thought of public speaking, or delivering a presentation to a room full of people, why not try our comprehensive one day course: Mastering Delivery for an interactive and fun approach to overcoming the nerves.
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Structure
What will we cover?
This intensive and interactive three day course will cover a range of delivery strategies and techniques, enabling you to become a more confident and persuasive presenter.
Day 1 will cover:
Effective planning strategies to target your presentation
- Approaches to planning
- Understanding your audience
- Structuring your presentation
Grabbing attention and inspiring your audience
- Setting strong objectives
- Attention Grabbers
- Take away messages
Powerful design methods to engage your audience
- Face to face delivery
- Web conferences
- Handouts to enhance your message
Day 2 will cover:
Controlling your nerves
- Understanding influences
- Managing the pace and tone of delivery
- Vocal techniques for engagement
Mastering your body language
- Overcoming negative body language
- Subliminal messages
- Managing challenging situations (e.g. redundancy/change)
Engaging and influencing your audience
- Managing challenging delegates
- The power of storytelling
- Employing visualisation techniques
Day 3 will cover:
Managing your environment for maximum impact
- Layout
- Lighting
- Webinars
Handling challenging questions
- Understanding the types of questions
- Planning for challenging situations
- Managing the unexpected
Presentation practise
- Plan and create a work related presentation
- Deliver using the techniques explored in the course
- Receive individualised feedback from your trainer
Throughout each of the three days you will have plenty of chances to put the skills, strategies and techniques into practise. You will have the opportunity to plan, prepare and deliver a short presentation each day and receive individualised feedback and techniques for improvement from your trainer.
At the end of day 3 you will receive a certificate to confirm completion of the course and a helpful booklet with a range of skills and information from the session along with additional activities and techniques to try out on your next presentation.
Session objectives
By the end of the session you will be able to:
- Design cutting edge presentations for webinars and face to face delivery
- Employ powerful storytelling and visualisation techniques
- Conquer your nerves to deliver with confidence
- Apply simple techniques to handle challenging audiences and questions
- Organise the environment to achieve maximum impact
What can I expect?
Our experienced, friendly trainers will work closely with you to develop your skills. Groups are kept small to give you the maximum opportunity for individual attention.
Each day will begin at 9:15 with refreshments and registration, ready for a 9:30 start. Your days will conclude by 16:30. A catered lunch each day provides an opportunity to network with the trainer and other delegates in a more informal setting.
The course will incorporate a range of activities to help you practise the strategies we will be introducing you to; this will include planning and developing presentations, practising vocal skills and body language techniques, receiving input from the trainer and participating in group discussions.
You will also be given the opportunity to deliver presentations of your choice throughout the course so that your trainer can provide you with personalised feedback on your strengths and suggest techniques to develop your areas for improvement.
Our intention is that you will have fun during the day, but leave the course having practised a range of strategies and with the improved confidence to tackle your next presentation head on.
You will find dates for our open workshops below. If you would prefer us to run a dedicated course at your premises, or would like to discuss a tailored training package including optional coaching support, please contact us for more details.
Please note that all workshops will run subject to minimum numbers.
To book one of our open workshops, select an event from the list below. If you don't see a suitable location or date, contact us with your requirements.
07583 118827
enquiries@star-training.co.uk