Presentation skills training and coaching tips

   

Contents Preparation Developing style Dealing with nerves Working your audience Structuring a presentation Developing as a presenter Links

How to present well A presentation is far more than an opportunity to give people information. It's a chance to influence and persuade on a level that you just don't get in any other arena. Here is a chance to really work your audience. Working your audience Converse Have a conversation with your audience. They may not actually say anything, but make them feel consulted, questioned, challenged, argued with; then they will stay awake and attentive. Your job as a presenter is to stimulate and communicate with your audience into wanting to get the information you have, not just to present that information at them. Interact Engage with your present audience, not the one you have prepared for. Look for reactions to your ideas and respond to their signals. If the light bulbs are not going on find another way to say it. Monitor their reactions; it's the only way you'll know how you're doing and what you should do next. If you don't interact you might as well send a video recording of your presentation. It's why you came. Show conviction Give an expressive presentation and an enthusiastic presentation and your audience will respond, which is what you want. At the very bottom line disagreement is preferable to being ignored. Use your excitement, pace yourself to give an exciting presentation, use something you know you feel strongly about to build up to an important point or as a springboard to another idea. Get some perspective The odds are that someone in the audience will not like you or may disagree with you. There will probably be someone else out there for whom you can do no wrong. As a rule of thumb, the majority of most audiences want to like you and what you have to say - they want you to be good. They didn't come hoping to be bored or irritated by your presentation. Next page structuring a presentation Home page presentation skills tips Find out more about presentation skills development and coaching tips @ Impact Factory Find Impact Factorys next available Open Presentation Skills Course The next available Open Advanced Presentation Skills Course The next available Open PowerPoint Presentation Skills Course The next available Open Public Speaking Skills Course And the next available Open Two Day Intermediate Presentation Course For Tailored Presentation Skills Training see Presentation Skills Training For One-to-One Presentation Skills see Executive Presentation Skills If you want some in-depth thoughts about Presentation, read the article called Presentation Skills For examples recent tailored programmes see Creative Presentation for Wild Card Meetings and Presentation Skills Training for Capita Connexions Card Advanced Presentation Skills Training for Raytheon Systems Ltd Presentation Skills Programme for Chanel Impact Factory, Suite 121, Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London N1 0QH, UK Phone 020 7226 1877  :  Fax 020 7354 3505 :  E-mail enquiries@impactfactory.com Presentation Skills Training