Giving Successful Presentations Training from CBT Direct

Giving Successful Presentations Curriculum Outline

Presenting Successfully

Overview/Description
There are a number of basic types of presentations, but all presentations have four things in common: a presenter, an audience, a venue, and a message. This course concentrates on showing how each of these vital elements has to be taken into account when preparing a presentation. Presenting is a skill that needs to be learned and practiced, starting with how you prepare, and you will be shown a simple but powerful method for selecting the right content, and then structuring it. Controlling nerves is an important part of preparing, and this course helps you to remove anxieties in the presentation environment by making sure that the venue is set up correctly, and ensuring that you rehearse appropriately.

Target Audience

Anyone in an organization who needs the skills to inform, persuade and convince colleagues or clients by means of presentations

Expected Duration

3.0 hours

Objectives :

Lesson Overview

Recognize the benefits of understanding the basics of presenting.

Types of Presentations

Choose which types of presentations to use for five hypothetical audiences.
What Makes a Successful Presenter?
Analyze the effectiveness of a speaker in a given scenario.
Audience Concentration
Identify the features of the venue, audience, and time of day that will aid audience concentration during presentations.
Lesson Overview
Recognize the benefits of efficient presentation preparation.
Preparing the Content
Apply a model for preparing content in a given presentation scenario.
Organizing Your Presentation Notes
Choose the appropriate methods to organize presentation notes in a given scenario.
Lesson Overview
Recognize the benefits of being able to control anxiety and the presentation environment.
The Reasons for Anxiety
Match irrational presentation fears with the appropriate rational responses.
Controlling Anxiety
Determine how far anxiety-control techniques have been used in a scenario
Rehearsing Your Presentation
Apply the appropriate rehearsal techniques to a given presentation situation.
The Presentation Environment
Determine how effectively a given speaker controlled his or her presentation environment.

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Delivering the Message

Overview/Description
So, the presentation is prepared and practiced. Great. But this means nothing to the audience. When you stand there in front of them, all that matters to them is what you look like and what you say.
This course is about delivering your message, and the techniques you need to do this.
First of all, you have to make a positive first impression on your audience members by how and where you stand, by your appearance, and how you look at them. Then, you must lead your audience through your message, referencing what is important through the language you use, and the physical techniques you employ.
Finally, the course shows what is needed to make a presentation really memorable, the wow factor that outstanding presenters have, and how to achieve it.

Target Audience

Anyone in an organization who needs the skills to inform, persuade, and convince colleagues or clients by means of presentations.

Expected Duration

3.0 hours

Objectives :

Lesson Overview

Recognize the benefits of presenting a positive image.

First Impressions

Determine whether a speaker is successful in creating a positive first impression in a given scenario.
Movement and Gesture
Recognize appropriate movement and gestures.
Making the Most of Your Voice
Apply the techniques required for successful use of your voice when presenting in a given scenario.
Lesson Overview
Recognize the benefits of giving guidance about the structure of your presentation.
A Strong Start
Match the key elements of a strong presentation opening to appropriate behaviors.
A Clear Development
Determine the extent to which a speaker clearly signals the development of the main points of the presentation in a given scenario.
A Strong Ending
Apply behaviors required for a strong presentation ending in a given scenario.
Lesson Overview
Recognize the benefits of delivering a memorable presentation.
Introducing Variety
Determine to what extent techniques are used to achieve variety in a case study.
Relating to Your Audience
Apply techniques that allow a speaker to relate to the audience in a presentation situation.
Lessons from Movies
Determine how far relevant techniques of filmmakers have been used in a presentation scenario.

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Available Presentation Resources

Overview/Description
This course is about making effective use of resources that can take the pressure off you--visual aids, questions, and making a team presentation.
Visual aids are overused, and presenters are overdependent on them. You need to know what visuals are available to you, and be able to determine which one suits a particular need. You need to know what makes a successful visual. Finally, you need to be able to use PowerPoint and other software packages appropriately, with a clear idea of what they can do.
Some presenters are afraid of questions from the audience because they seem to represent a loss of control. This course shows you that questions are positive opportunities to be grasped eagerly: they are a way of deepening your communication with the audience. But there are techniques to handling questions successfully, and they need to be learned and practiced.
Sometimes, a speaker needs to appear in front of a client or colleagues and present, but as part of team. Each member of the team speaks, but the team members are collectively responsible for communicating the message. This course tells you when team presentations are appropriate. It shows you how to look and sound like a team, how to prepare and practice together, and how to apply techniques that reinforce, rather than undermine, your collective relationship.

Target Audience

Anyone in an organization who needs the skills to inform, persuade and convince colleagues or clients by means of presentations

Expected Duration

3.5 hours

Objectives :

Lesson Overview

Recognize the benefits of using visual aids effectively.

Different Kinds of Visual Aids

Identify statements that associate types of visual aids with specific uses.
Using, Rather than Abusing Visual Aids
Determine how speakers could improve their presentations through the effective use of visual aids.
Computer-aided Presentations
Make appropriate use of computer-aided slides to enhance a presentation in a given scenario.
Lesson Overview
Recognize the value of making appropriate use of questions in a presentation.
Successful Question-and-Answer Sessions
Determine a speakers success in handling the question-and-answer phase of a presentation scenario.
Asking the Audience Questions
Ask appropriate questions to elicit a desired response from an audience in a presentation scenario.
Taking Questions from Your Audience
Determine how a speaker could improve his performance in taking questions from an audience in a given scenario.
Lesson Overview
Recognize the benefits of making team presentations.
When to Make a Team Presentation
Determine the circumstances that require a team presentation.
Preparing a Team Presentation
Prepare appropriately for a team presentation in a given scenario.
Delivering a Team Presentation
Determine to what extent the speakers behave as a team in a team presentation scenario.

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Giving Successful Presentations Simulation

Overview/Description
After years of research and development, the Top-Shelf Cola Company is finally ready to release its latest beverage, Passion, to consumers. Passion is a caffeine-free, all-natural soda thats made from real passion fruits. The company has spent ten million dollars to perfect the products taste and to create a brand for the drink. You are a brand manager at Top-Shelf and responsible for the Passion brand along with your coworker, Hannah. The drink will be hitting the streets soon, and the marketing campaign for Passion has already begun. Top-Shelf has been aligned with several restaurant chains to exclusively sell its other soft drinks. Now, Top-Shelf management wants Passion to also be on the menus at these chains. In this simulation, you must prepare and deliver a presentation to some of Top-Shelfs existing customers and convince representatives from these chains that they should be offering Passion to their customers. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft series Giving Successful Presentations and has links to the following courses: comm_05_a01_bs_enus, comm_05_a02_bs_enus, and comm_05_a03_bs_enus.

Target Audience
Anyone in an organization who needs the skills to inform, persuade, and convince colleagues or clients by means of presentations.

Expected Duration
0.5

Lesson Objectives:

Giving Successful Presentations Simulation

Making a team presentation.

Rehearsing your presentation.

Controlling the presentation environment.

Preparing the content.

Considering factors that affect audience concentration.

Making the most of visual aids.

Controlling anxiety.

Starting strong.

Developing your presentation.

Ending strong.

Relating to your audience.

Handling questions.

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Giving Successful Presentations

It’s been said that public speaking is one of the most feared things to do, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Presentation is required for many positions that you may hold and it takes skills that need to be learned and practiced to become proficient.

CBT Direct has assembled the curriculum below for effectively delivering your message using specific techniques, from preparation to a successful ending. Learn how to prepare your presentation, remove your anxieties and make a positive impression.

You’ll also learn how to take some of the pressure off yourself by using visual aids and how questions can actually be a welcome factor since they deepen your communication with the audience. The package also focuses on team presentation and using PowerPoint and other software packages appropriately. You can practice your skills in the presentation simulation.

Once you do hold a position and it’s your turn to make that important presentation to your peers and supervisors, it is imperative that you communicate clearly and effectively. If you give a poor presentation, you could limit your chances for advancement. The "Giving Successful Presentations" curriculum covers the many skills required to give an effective and powerful presentation, including: presenting to succeed, message delivery, using the different resources that are available in making an effective presentation and even a simulation to help you experience an effective presentation.

Giving Successful Presentations