Presentation – Rise to the Challenge (in English)
Speaking well is a challenge in any language – even more so if the language is not your native one. Whether you have an audience of one or a thousand, your ability to design and manage your messages will be a key factor in your success.
Target audience: Top and middle-level managers, all those who need to be able to present and “sell ideas” in English.
The aim of the course: To develop skills in public speech and ability to justify one’s opinion in different audiences in English.
Gains: You will significantly improve your ability to design and deliver a persuasive message in English.
Duration: 2 days, 12 hours
Programme:
1. The architecture of presentation: How to sell your ideas:
- Lecture: the reasons for speaking: what effect goals and the target audience have on the structure of the presentation;
- How to start and finish – and how not to;
- Practical work: how to create attractive reports. Formula for creating reports on the offers of or solutions by your business;
- Practical work: brief presentation by the participants on a theme important to them;
- How to develop your main message briefly and to the point;
- How to stir the audience;
- Practical training: participants present their arguments.
2. Selling an idea during a conversation with one or several partners:
- Brief lecture: decisive factors of success: visual, vocal, and verbal (with an emphasis on the visual);
- Participants come with their homework done: key points of the conversation;
- Practical work: improvement of key points;
- What is the hook? What makes the listener remember you? How to find quotes and similes?
- Video training: practice session: conversation modelling; corrections by teacher.
3. Selling your idea to a large audience:
- Exercises for posture, voice, and diction; for stress reduction;
- Participants come with homework: first three minutes of addressing a large audience;
- Arguments are sharpened;
- Intensive video training: presentation.
4. Special challenges – PowerPoint and difficult questions:
- Lecture on PowerPoint presentations: successes and failures;
- Changes in participants' PowerPoint presentations, based on the formulae of rhetoric;
- Video training: PowerPoint – how to speak effectively using PowerPoint;
- Lecture on techniques to be used when the audience asks difficult questions;
- Video training: hot chair – participants are trained to spontaneously use convincing arguments.
5. Summary. Participant receives printed material and a personal video recording.
Venue: TRIVIUMS training centre, Blaumaņa 11/13 - 12, IV, Riga
Participation fees include handouts, coffee breaks and lunch.
This course can be organized as corporate training, adapting the programme to the specific needs of your business.
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Main conclusions from the training or 3 things you will definitely use from now on:
- Body language, structured content, exercises.
- Correct body language. Structure of talk. Answers to difficult questions.
- Exercises. Thinking before answering questions without any rush. Use of PP.
- Before the presentation, warm up physically and prepare for talk; pay attention to body language, speaking volume, and eye contact.
- Individual advice of the teacher. Body language – an important part of the talk. Hooking the audience.
- Body language is of crucial importance. Before the presentation, prepare carefully. It is possible to fight and overcame the fear of presentation.
- Structure of presentation. Body language. Training.
- Self-control, exercises, experience of others.
- Public is of principal importance. Less is more. Personal attitude.
- Breathing, formulating the thought using "boxes"; continuing to perfect presentation skills.
What did you like best in this seminar?- Practical exercises, smarting experience.
- Lectures (rather than practical work).
- I really enjoy trainers work -> process of learning. Thanks a lot!
- Banuta’s attitude, approach, knowledge.. all about her :)
- Body language skills, story-telling techniques.
- Banuta, Banuta and Banuta. She is an excellent coach. Thanks.
- Discussions and practice.
- Banuta’s experience and personality.
- Printouts and materials.