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Persuasive Presentation Skills

Course 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 / Benefits

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 Content

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