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Persuasive Presentation Skills

Duration: 2 Days
 

Introduction

You may have the best innovation and possess the best knowledge of your skills but if you cannot present it effectively, achieving the outcome that you want becomes a real challenge. Presentations are a powerful way to communicate your intentions and ideas to your target audience. They are great opportunities to transform the communication process from a passive perspective to a proactive position. You can use presentations to effectively persuade your audience to take a particular course of action, to convey information, to gain commitment, or to provide a forum for the discussion of ideas. Applying effective presentation skills greatly enhances one's ability to do their job through using various strategies in business communication.

This unique 2-day, activity-driven program teaches skills that boost personal productivity and relationship building through increased understanding and effective implementation of the presentation process. By providing you with a rigorous training environment, your active participation in our program will enable you to apply and sustain your learning to a point of forming winning habits. You will have the ability to create the greatest positive impact when you are presenting your point at every given opportunity.

High impact presentation skills: full suite focuses on the following areas:

• Communication
• Content
• Context
• Delivery
• Structure

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this session, participants should be able to:

• Design and develop effective presentation materials
• Engage different audiences with ease
• Handle feedback and questions with confidence
• Improve your personal presentation skills
• Use various presentation strategies effectively

Key Contents

Module 1: Overview

• Context setting
• Preparing to present using the 3Ps
• Defining your presentation
• Content prioritization
• Presentation planning sheet

Module 2: Understanding Your Audience

• Contrast in presentation styles
• Structure of presentation
• Pulse check and rollover
• Audience profiling
• Applying communication strategies

Module 3: Opening Performance

• Fear reducing tactics
• Creating positive impressions
• The OPENINGS model
• Professional opening styles
• Identifying and developing your UPS

Module 4: Delivering Performance

• The 3Vs of the presentation
• Verbal
• Vocal
• Visual part I: Kinesics
• The SOFTENING technique
• Visual part II: Visuals

Module 5: Closing Performance

• Question-fielding techniques
• Types of closers
• Persuasive languaging
• Professional closing styles
• Applying learning to action

Module 6: Presentation Flight 1 - Demonstrate & Applying Persuasive Presentation Skills

• Live demonstration
• The hot seat
• The role of the audience
• The art of feedback
• Objective and subjective review

Module 7: Presentation Flight 2 - Demonstrate & Applying Persuasive Presentation Skills

• Live demonstration
• The hot seat
• The role of the audience
• The art of feedback
• Objective and subjective review

Module 8: Presentation Flight 3 - Demonstrate & Applying Persuasive Presentation Skills

• Live demonstration
• The hot seat
• The role of the audience
• The art of feedback
• Objective and subjective review

 

Target Audience

Executive, Senior Executives, Managers, Line Managers and anybody that needs to upskill their current presentation skills with persuasive strategies.

Methodology

Our unique methodology of combining experiential, instructional and discovery learning, and supported by modern coaching technology, creates powerful shifts in attitudes and behavior that will encourage sustainable change in your organization. These changes make an impact on results where it matters.

In our programs, you can expect an extensive use of case studies, debriefing, dyads, facilitated coaching, feedback, games and activities, group discussions, lectures, psychodramas, simulations, story-telling and structured instruments.