Presentation Skills

Benefits for Staff

Through this session participants will learn and practice techniques enabling them to:

  • Prepare presentation content and structure
  • Minimise and control nervousness and pre-talk anxiety
  • Use voice, language and body language to deliver a powerful message effectively

Overview

Research regularly shows presenting in a public forum, whether to a group of 5 or 100 people, is a significant fear of many people.

Surprisingly, nervousness and anxiety are fears common to both the inexperienced and experienced presenter. What separates them, is the ability to overcome this fear, prepare solid content and deliver this in a convincing, confident manner. These are skills that can be learned and applied by everyone.

This session will provide participants with effective techniques for public speaking and delivering presentations. Topics include:

  • Determining content and structure appropriate to the presentation's purpose
  • Using techniques to deliver a powerful and engaging presentation that will capture and hold the interest of an audience
  • Communicating effectively in front of an audience
  • Engaging the audience and responding to questions
  • Overcoming nervousness

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