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Objectives: Effective verbal presentations

1. Gain confidence
2. Increase assertiveness in international meetings or in front of large audiences

Programme: Effective verbal presentations

Planning and preparation

• Purposes in verbal presentations
• Comparing written and verbal messages
• Planning a strategy for your presentation: choosing the kind of presentation, adapting to the audience, planning opening and concluding, planning visuals, signposting.
• Choosing the information to include in a presentation and organising it
• Focusing on points not words

Optimal delivery

• Capturing interest and building rapport
• Structuring content and making an impact
• Using your voice
• Being creative / telling stories: use and abuse of emotion
• Spontaneity vs preparation
• Handling questions
• Making group presentations
• The devil is in the detail: illustration, anecdote and example

Putting theory into practice

• Presentation from each participant / videoed
• Peer critique and feedback

Learning approach: Effective verbal presentations

A hands-on course where participants are in their professional situation and can practise the techniques taught with immediate, thus effective, feedback from both peers and trainer.