Improving Your Presentations
It's all about connecting with your audience.
Whatever your career path, presenting material-whether to an individual, a small group, or your entire company-is inevitable. In this short course, you will learn the essential mechanics of presenting as well as the underlying aspects of nonverbal communication. This course will help you understand the concept of selling a presentation and the importance of creating a connection with the audience to make a lasting impact.
This virtual short course, specifically designed to give you a quick convenient way to renew and refresh your project management skills, maintain your Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification, and earn PDUs on your own time, at your own pace.
Virtual short courses do not include materials or headsets.
PMP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
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Course Objective
- Manage stage fright through experience, optimism, and preparation
- The quality standards for presentations
- Best practices guidelines
- Outline dynamic presentations
- Prepare audio-visual aids that serve as speaker's notes
- Deliver strong openings
- Non-verbal cues and clues
Course Description
Improving Your Presentation online course get started with core concepts of presentation. Improving Your Presentation online course intention is to provide a foundation to improve their presentation skills.
Improving Your Presentation online course will allow the participants to understand the benefits of understanding and implementing the presentation skills and concepts.
Improving Your Presentation online course is ideally developed for speakers and presenters who wants to specialize as an established presenter.
In the Improving Your Presentation online training course, Uplatz provides an in-depth online training for the participants or learners to gain knowledge and able to implement their presentation skills. Uplatz provides appropriate teaching and expertise training to equip the participants for implementing the learnt concepts in an enterprise.
Improving Your Presentation online training course curriculum covers fundamentals of presentation skills.
With the help of Improving Your Presentation online course, the learners can discover:
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Inhouse Terminology and concepts related to the presentation
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Know about storytelling presentation skills
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Able to implement information design to make clear slides that can render your ideas
Uplatz provides an in-depth training to the learners to accelerate their knowledge and skill set required for a Presente
Target Audience
PMP-certified project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, program managers, project sponsors, and project team members who want to continue to develop their skills and renew their PMP certification.
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Improving Your Presentations
1. Presentation Basics
- Why a Presentation?
- Presentations and Your Career
- A Presentation Is:
- Not necessarily a speech
- Not necessarily a formally planned and rehearsed event
- Sometimes a one-on-one encounter
- What you make it
- Stage Fright
- Know the subject matter vs. know your material
- Own it!
- Preparation overkill
- Necessary Skill Sets
- Exceptions
- Quality Standards for Presentations
- Presentation Best Practices
- Get to the Point
- Say It Multiple Times In Multiple Ways
- Vary the Tone, Vary the Rhythm
- The Silent Treatment
- It's All About "Three"
- Shorter Is Usually Better (Attention Span, Concentration Level)
- Visual Aids and Speaker's Notes
2. Nonverbal Communication in Presentations
- From the Presenter
- Subconscious level
- Gestures
- Make a face
- Open the gait (walking gestures)
- Don't "rock-out"
- Gesture clusters
- Sudden changes
- Congruence
- From the Audience
- Constantly reading the audience
- Changes can be very subtle
- Cues that should be your CLUES
- Nonverbal red flags (be careful!)
3. Connection-ability
- Know What You Want/Open Strong
- Joke
- Story
- Silence
- Have a Point of View
- Start with the Big Stuff
- Tell Them Your Way
- Be a Storyteller
- Make it personal
- Make it engaging
- Don't make it stiff
- Presenting Data vs. Presenting an Experience
- Establish Your Comfort Zone Early
- Make it close if possible, even in a large group
- Move to the audience
- Eye contact/focus
- Control Those Q & A Sessions
- Anticipate
- Lead
- Direct
- Have questions asked when you want them asked (and make the audience think it was their idea)
- OWN it! (again)
- Start Where the Audience Is
- Always keep the audience in mind
- Involve the audience if at all possible
- Morrisey - retention curve principle
- Edutainment
- Passion
- Ownership
- Openness (verbal, nonverbal)
- Attitude
- Creativity
- Style
- The Build
- It's All About "Three(again, yet different this time)
- Wishy-Washy vs. Directness
- Say It, Don't Spray It! (not a reference to diction
- Make a Face
- The Goldilocks Principle
- Relax
- Breathe
- Smile
- Have Fun!
- Be Full of It: Information, Not Yourself
Improving Your Presentation online certification course with the help of expert professionals training is recognized across the globe. Because of the increased adoption of the presentation concepts in various companies the participants are able to find the job opportunity easily. The leading companies hire Presenters considering their skill of mastering presentation concepts. Improving Your Presentation online certification course is known for their knowledge in managing to implement overall presentation and slides. After pursuing Improving Your Presentation online certification course the participants can become as a storyteller, speechwriter, slide presenter and can pursue a wide range of career paths.
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