Course Outline
Pre-Requisites
You are encouraged to bring your own topics to class, or you will be able to choose from several scenarios provided by the instructor. Though the focus of this class is not on developing presentations using software, we highly recommend that you bring a personal computer with presentation software such as Microsoft Powerpoint as some of your practical exercises will require the use of visuals.
Lessons
Adapt your presentation content and style to match your business objectives and audience.Effective presentation skills have become an essential professional competency for achieving key goals and influencing the decisions and actions of your audience. Yet many surveys place delivering presentations at or near the top of most feared activities. This course provides the skills and methods needed to comfortably plan, structure, and deliver business presentations for productive outcomes.
Consider how to change your presentation for culturally diverse audiences, important stakeholders, and different delivery formats. Learn how to overcome internal inhibitors, such as nervousness, and mitigate external inhibitors, such as room layout, equipment, temperature, so that you can present with focus and confidence.
What You'll Learn
• Identify the objective of your presentation
• Plan your presentation type, theme, and contents by assessing audience needs and preferences
• Develop and deliver informational and persuasive presentations with authority, poise, and relevance
• Prepare to effectively handle the challenges associated with executive presentations
• Structure and deliver decision-making presentations to executive audiences
Who Needs to Attend
• IT professionals who need to present to stakeholders
• Business professionals who present to various decision makers: IT project managers, project managers, coordinators, business analysts, system analysts, IT project staff (developer and designer)
• Professionals who need to deliver business-outcome-based presentations
• Professionals transferring to a role in which they need to create and present presentations more often
• Professionals transitioning from an individual type of role to a team lead type of role
• Professionals who want to improve general presentation skills (work-related)
• Professionals who want to increase their confidence in presenting
• Professionals who don't get the results that they expect from presentations
• Professionals who don't know how to package all the elements together
Prerequisites
You are encouraged to bring your own topics to class, or you will be able to choose from several scenarios provided by the instructor. Though the focus of this class is not on developing presentations using software, we highly recommend that you bring a personal computer with presentation software such as Microsoft Powerpoint as some of your practical exercises will require the use of visuals.
Outline
• Assess your presentation skills
• Perform a basic audience and setting analysis for an informational presentation
• Deliver an informational presentation
• Perform a detailed audience and setting analysis for a persuasive presentation
• Structure and prepare a persuasive presentation
• Deliver a persuasive presentation
• Handle challenges associated with virtual presentations
• Structure an executive presentation
• Deliver an executive presentation
• Re-visit your presentation skills
Cancellation Policy
We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted. Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.
Training Location
Online Classroom
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I would never take another course that starts at 11AM and goes to 9PM again. The way the course was laid out really took away from the capturing of what was presented as it was 5-6 hours of watching a screen before getting to the actual labs. There has to be a better way to lay out this particular course. In my previous course, the lectures were broken up by labs which worked out fantastic and kept you engaged in the course. There were days when in order to actually complete the labs, would go over the 9PM day end time frame. Was able to get the primary labs done, but if you want to get all the content completed, you cannot complete it in the window of this course, you will need to come back on your own time.