This popular presentation skills course will help you deliver presentations highly effectively – with confidence. You'll learn to overcome any fears to deliver with impact and credibility.

A 2.5 day presentation skills course, it's delivered over a three-week period - a long enough period for you to embed new habits and ensure all your new skills are integrated. We simply don't believe in quick fixes, and one day is just not enough. You need 2.5 days to break old habits, build your confidence and skills to a place where you're ready to present to an audience, hold their attention, impress and win them over to your ideas.

What will you learn from Presentation Skills?  
From our presentation skills course, you'll:

• identify what beliefs are influencing your current approach to presenting, then replace them with more empowering beliefs to improve your confidence
• learn unique techniques to overcome your nerves and focus your energy
• identify your comfort zone, and how to step out of it
• work through NLP techniques to programme your subconscious and create a blueprint for presenting powerfully
• build awareness of your body language, and learn how to add impact through verbal and non-verbal communication
• learn how to keep your audience engaged
• learn how to make your message stand out – and it’s memorable

How is this course different from other presentation skills courses?
Unlike many one and two-day back-to-back courses, this presentation skills course isn’t a quick fix:  Spilt over three weeks, this course is a journey.

You’ll have a week between Days One and Two to practice and embed your learnings. You’ll be set tasks that’ll help you develop your skills then practice them. On the final half day, you'll put everything you have learnt into practise and experience yourself delivering at a new level!  

COURSE OVERVIEW

Day 1 

• How to select a topic
• Look, feel and be confident
• How to think on your feet
• NLP techniques for developing skilful verbal and nonverbal listening & communication skills
• Turning negative into positive
• Structure a talk to:
  • Make clear, focused and purposeful presentations
  • Make the point you want to make
  • Get buy in and motivate the audience to take action
  • Meet your audience's needs
• Giving a presentation to an audience

Day 2

• Practise, practise, practise
• Coaching, coaching, coaching
• Connecting with your audience
• State management - getting those butterflies to fly in formation
• Visual aids, props or crutches
• Refining your approach, noticing and becoming effective with Pace 
• Audience cues
• Curved balls and hecklers
• The use of emotion in talks – winning hearts and minds
• Insightful feedback – enhancing your self awareness as a presenter
• Accelerated learning to consolidate and integrate the learning
  

Final session

• Practise, practise, practise
• Team presentations, working with others to bring out the best
• Feel the fear and do it anyway - achieving your full potential
• Development plan – integrating the learnings, ensuring new habits are formed and embedding change into business as usual 
• Graduation!