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Developing Oral Presentation Skills (Getting Ready for Uni Lecture Series)

Public speaking is a skill that will not only help you at Uni but that can also make or break your professional life. This workshop will provide you with guidelines to help you master the art of delivering an effective and engaging presentation. Keep an eye on your email inbox for confirmation and a zoom link.

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• Articulate your ideas and messages effectively with this Presentation Skills Training
• Learn about presentation styles and visual aids to give compelling presentations
• Gain the confidence to present to diverse audiences

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Presentation Skills Training Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Presentation Skills

• Fundamentals of Presenting
• Become an Effective Speaker
• Your Field of Communication
• Most Common Mistakes
• How to Present with Confidence?
• Planning and Structuring a Presentation
• Transitions
• Organising Presentation Material to Suit Your Audience

Module 2: Using Relevant Presentation Methods

• Presentation Styles
• Preparing for the Occasion
• Preparing for Your Audience
• Using What, Why, and How to Write Your Presentation

Module 3: Bringing Your Presentation to Life

• How to Make a Good Impression from the Start?
• Getting Your Point Across
• Authentic Communication
• Finding Your Own Voice

Module 4: Activity

• Using Visual Aids
• How to Prepare and Present Data?
• How and When to Engage with the Audience?
• Reading Audience Reactions
• Grabbing the Attention of Your Audience
• Asking Questions
• Inspire and Motivate
• Body Language
• Eye Contact
• Using Emotional Intelligence
• Successfully Closing a Presentation
• Receiving Feedback

Module 5: Dealing with Unforeseen Circumstances

• Improvising and Thinking on Your Feet
• Room Layouts
• Beating Last Minute Nerves
• Staying Calm When There are Delays in Starting or Technology Failures
• Dealing with Difficult Audiences
• Dealing with Questions

Who should attend this Presentation Skills Training Course?

The Presentation Skills Course is ideally suited for individuals across various professional backgrounds who wish to enhance their ability to deliver impactful and engaging presentations. This Presentation Skills Course can benefit a wide range of professionals, including: 

• Executives and Managers
• Sales and Marketing Professionals
• Project Managers
• Public Relations Professionals
• Public Speakers
• Entrepreneurs

Prerequisites of the Presentation Skills Training Course

There are no formal prerequisites for this Presentation Skills Training Course.

Presentation Skills Training Course Overview

The ability to convey ideas, information, and goals effectively is paramount for professional success. A skilled presenter can captivate an audience, persuade stakeholders, and propel careers forward. In today's competitive landscape, mastering Presentation Skills is key to achieving professional growth and influence.

The Presentation Skills Course offered by The Knowledge Academy is designed to equip delegates with the knowledge and skills needed to deliver impactful presentations, enhance confidence, and engage audiences effectively. The course is tailored for professionals, educators, and anyone keen on refining their presentation abilities, empowering them to excel in their respective roles.

This intensive 1-day Presentation Skills Training Course by The Knowledge Academy equips delegates with a robust toolkit for crafting compelling presentations. Delegates explore proven techniques to structure content logically, enhance delivery style, and handle Q&A sessions adeptly. Through engaging Presentation Skills Training Course sessions and real-time feedback, delegates gain invaluable insights.

Course Objectives

• To master the art of structuring presentations for maximum impact
• To develop effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• To create visually engaging and informative slides
• To learn techniques for managing nervousness and stage fright
• To gain strategies for handling questions and discussions
• To enhance audience engagement and participation
• To understand the psychology of persuasion in presentations
• To practice and receive constructive feedback on presentation delivery

After completing the Presentation Skills Course, delegates will possess a powerful skill set to excel in their professional roles. They will have the confidence to deliver compelling presentations that captivate and persuade audiences. Whether pitching ideas, leading meetings, or delivering training sessions, delegates will stand out as effective communicators.

What’s included in this Presentation Skills Training Course?

• World-Class Training Sessions from Experienced Instructors 
• Presentation Skills Certificate
• Digital Delegate Pack

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Using PowerPoint in Presentations

Visual aids are an important element of a good oral presentation. Using visuals can add interest to your presentation and help you communicate your ideas.

You can use PowerPoint or any other presentation software to produce visuals. If you use it well, PowerPoint allows you to present colourful, interesting visuals and manage and combine a range of multimedia information.

Visuals can:

• help you cover more ground in less time
• link the sections of your presentation
• illustrate something that is difficult to explain or time-consuming to describe
• show reality in ways that words alone cannot (photographs, plans, maps)
• help the audience visualise abstract concepts (charts/ diagrams/ conceptual visuals)
• summarise information (keywords, graphs, tables)
• add interest to a 'dry' topic

1.1 Plan your presentation

Before you even think about making visuals for your presentation, you must know what you are going to say (see Academic Skills' guide to Oral Presentations for more information).

• Write your presentation script.
• Organise the structure (your introduction, body and conclusion).
• Identify the main points and concepts, then determine which of these will require a visual for clarity.
• Write an outline to help plan your visuals.

After you’ve written your talk, then start planning your slideshow.

1.2 Plan your visuals

Once you know what you’re going to say, you can plan visuals to support your presentation. Planning helps you gather and organise your ideas before you start designing slides on computer. Planning will not only save time, but ensure that your visuals are effective.

Make a storyboard

Draw up a 'storyboard'—a visual layout of the different 'scenes' in your presentation in rough sketch form. Storyboarding your slides before you create them helps you visualise how the content of your presentation will flow and how the slides relate to each other. Your storyboard should be a type of map, outlining the main points of your presentation.

Draw in pencil and have an eraser handy. You can rule up some frames on A3 paper or use a set of index cards or large post-it notes (cards/ post-its can be rearranged to try out different presentation sequences).

Getting started

• Decide how many slides you need to use and draw up the appropriate number of frames. (The number of slides you use will depend on the length of your presentation; use no more than five or six slides per 10 minutes).
• Follow the structure of your presentation outline and consider how your presentation will fit into consecutive frames.
• Think beyond bullet points and consider how you could translate text or data into something visual.
• Make rough sketches for each slide. Don’t worry about neatness at this point, just ensure the idea of the visual is clear. The sketching process will help to identify what you want each visual to convey.

Evaluating and redrafting your storyboard enables you to make adjustments early while revisions are easy to do. Read your written script while looking at the storyboard and ask yourself:

• Do my slides clearly display the key ideas from my presentation?
• Is the structure of my presentation apparent in my slides?
• Does my slideshow 'flow' from one slide to the next? Are there visual or verbal links to connect each section?
• Is each slide as visually effective as I can make it?
• Is the information presented in the most suitable way? (eg. would a picture be more effective than a description?)
• Will the audience be able to understand it quickly and easily?

Make sure you complete your storyboard before you move to the computer.

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Business Presentation Skills Training and Coaching for Sydney-based businesses

Your teams deserve the best presentation skills training.

As Sydney continues to grow as an economic hub in the Asia-Pacific region, businesses have new and exciting opportunities to tap into. This also means your teams need to cut through the clutter of competition by presenting and pitching ideas more persuasively, confidently and credibly. 

SecondNature’s carefully-crafted business presentation skills training and coaching programs help your people overcome this challenge. Our programs have earned acclaim for being the most experiential, results-driven business presentation skills workshops available in Sydney because they are:

• Highly interactive and hands-on 
• Delivered in-person or online by experts who specialise exclusively in business presentation skills
• Tailored for your business, plus, personalised for each participant
• Designed to empower participants to plan and structure highly engaging, impactful and compelling presentations

The combined result of these features is that our clients receive world-class training and coaching right here in Sydney with maximum return on investment. This is why some of Sydney’s best businesses trust us to transform their people’s presentation capabilities.

All of our programs include delivery practice sessions with detailed individual feedback, even in a group workshop.

That’s not all. As part of our philosophy of delivering sustainable learning, we offer complimentary post-program support to extend skills development and workplace application. To find out what our post-program support encompasses, visit this page .

We ensure that you/your people gain relevant, practical and real-world presentation skills which can be applied immediately back in you/your people’s business role. The skills become second nature and will have a lasting impact on all future presentations.

Read more about the core principles we apply here . 

Who Can Benefit from our Business Presentation Skills Training and Coaching?

Our programs are designed to take participants further when you need to present in business – at meetings, internally and externally, to pitch ideas, launch new products, showcase results, speak at conferences and more. This means our programs benefit anyone in business – from graduates, through junior management to senior leadership teams and c-suite sales executives .

Our business presentation skills training and coaching programs are for anyone who:

• Wants to more quickly and easily create impactful presentations
• Wants to come across as confident and authoritative during a meeting or presentation
• Needs to build a convincing, credible and logically-structured argument
• Desires to create a lasting impact when delivering high-stakes speeches, presentations, pitches or tenders
• Aims to clinch deals by commanding respect in front of people who matter 

SecondNature programs have delivered value to Australian blue-chip companies such as AMP, Bupa, iCare, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Multiplex, QUT, Toll and more. You can learn more about our clients and what they have to say about our programs on this page .  

Choose from a Range of Specialist Training, Coaching and Consulting Programs in Sydney

At SecondNature, we believe that when it comes to business presentation skills, the typical generic approach only results in inadequate skills development. More fundamentally, our private workshops allow participants to sharpen their presentation skills using ‘real’ business scenarios, which are likely to be confidential or contain commercially sensitive info. This is why we don’t run public workshops, as they offer no scope for personal attention, practice time or confidentiality.  

The list below provides a snapshot of our range of group, pitching, 1-to-1 and conference & event programs. 

Group Presentation Skills Training

Our programs are all client exclusive for small or larger groups, delivered in-person or online (as live video coaching):

• Present Inspire! – A SecondNature signature in-person program. For professionals whose role requires them to inspire audiences – taking presenters from ordinary to extraordinary.
• Present to Persuade and Influence – A SecondNature signature program. Comprehensive, advanced skills to help people become more impactful communicators able to persuade, influence, motivate and inspire others. Taking presenters from ordinary to extraordinary. Present to Persuade and Influence in-person or Present to Persuade and Influence online .
• Present with Confidence – Intermediate presentation skills for anyone in business – taking presenters from competent to confident. Present With Confidence 1 or 2-Day in-person or Present Online With Confidence .
• Presenting Essentials – Introductory presenting skills for those newer to business – in-person program taking presenters from elementary to experienced.
• Presenting Online Fastclass – Introductory to intermediate skills in a super accelerated online 2hr format. For all presenters who need to transfer their face-to-face presenting skills to the virtual world.
• Presenting Skills Masterclass – Fast-track introductory to intermediate level, high-octane skills clinic for larger groups. Presenting Skills Masterclass in-person or Presenting Skills Masterclass online .
• Presentation Writing Essentials – Write and design clearer and more compelling presentations. Presentation Writing Essentials in-person or Presentation Writing Essentials online .

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Our pitch presentation training or coaching (or consulting on a specific live bid), can help you win business from your competitors:

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Presentation Skills Course for Beginners

What you'll learn.

Improve your work skills by learning vital presentation skills with our career development & communication skills short courses in Sydney!

Making an impactful presentation can often be the difference between success and failure. Whilst many companies, universities, and schools will teach you how to present, very few (if any) provide guidance on creating the supporting material.

This course will help you to breach that gap! You can put yourself ahead of the competition with the guidance of this course to create impactful slides in PowerPoint.

If you're looking to improve how you communicate your ideas and present them to an audience, then this is the course for you!

Learning outcomes

By the end of this presentation skills course, you will have enhanced your career prospects by:

• Structure presentations clearly and concisely using issue trees, the MECE principle, and the Minto pyramid principle.
• Take your core message, as well as all supporting evidence, and create a compelling, logical and easy to follow storyline.
• Create slides that support the storyline and help the delivery of the message from both a structural and visual perspective.
• Demonstrate a higher proficiency in PowerPoint, enabling you to be more effective with your time.

Course content

What will be covered in this presentation skills course?

Session 1: Structure

• How to create good structure through clear messaging, maintaining a coherent main thread, and not getting side-tracked in messaging.
• define the problem
• articulate the message
• provide supporting evidence
• use storyboarding to ensure effective structure.
• The tools, concepts, and frameworks necessary to help with this: MECE, Issue Trees, Minto Pyramid, Social Styles (to ensure you communicate with the audience in the right way), & Storyboarding.

Session 2: Message

• Creating a visual representation of your message in your slides and how to avoid common pitfalls (e.g., messy slides, distracting graphics, too much/too little text).
• How do you illustrate your message? How will your slides look? How to present data in the best way
• Will these get presented once and read many times (e.g., a board presentation)?
• Will they only ever get read (e.g., an RFP response)?
• Will they get presented once and never read (e.g., TED talk)?
• Each slide needs the right balance to serve as a presentation aid, helping to convey the message rather than distracting from the main message.
• At the end of this session, students should have learned the basic principles of slide layout, data visualisation and writing for a clear and concise presentation. Students will have an opportunity to ask for feedback on their presentation at the end of the class.

Session 3: Present

• Navigating PowerPoint and presentations.
• In-depth PowerPoint tips and tricks will get shared, aimed at helping students to improve their effectiveness and efficiency in PowerPoint.
• Students will present their slides and receive feedback on them.

Intended audience

Who is this presentation skills course for?

This presentation skills course is designed for students looking to upskill and enhance their abilities to deliver impactful presentations. It is suitable for individuals from various backgrounds, including professionals who regularly present to their board, university students seeking to deliver outstanding project presentations, and aspiring entrepreneurs who want to pitch their ideas effectively to potential investors.

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