Course objectivesAt the completion of this course, you, as an active participant, will be able to:
• Accurately assess your presentation skills and those of your colleagues.
• Identify and analyze your audience; assess your audience’s needs and how you plan to meet them.
• Prepare the structure of your presentation, including your objective, the main presentation points and their benefit to your audience , your call to action, and your persuasive techniques to convince your audience to act.
• Prepare and practice strategies for immediately engaging and establishing rapport with your audience.
• To present a persuasive closing that motivates your audience to immediately fulfill your call to action.
• List and integrate the five P’s of verbal communication—projection, pitch, pronunciation, pace, and pausing—into your own unique and compelling vocal delivery style.
• List and integrate the four P’s of nonverbal communication—posture, pantomime, position, and passion—into your own unique and compelling delivery style.
• Choose from a wide array of skills—questioning, listening, visualization, harmony, atmosphere—to deliver an audience-centered presentation designed to influence, persuade, and convince them to act.
• Effectively manage a question and answer session, and demonstrate intelligent responses to anticipated and unanticipated questions.
• Using a number of techniques, practice developing your unique presentation style by integrating various communication skills to confidently deliver successful presentations.