COURSE OVERVIEW:
Welcome to the Create & Deliver Professional Presentations course. This program will equip you with the knowledge, planning frameworks, and delivery techniques needed to design and deliver presentations that are engaging, purposeful, and professionally executed. You will explore how to structure content, understand your audience, use visual and verbal communication tools effectively, manage challenging situations, and evaluate your presentation outcomes. This course also highlights the role of preparation, practice, and continuous improvement in building confidence and achieving strong communication impact in workplace and public contexts.
This course begins by examining the benefits of a good presentation and the importance of strong presentation skills in communicating ideas, influencing decisions, and supporting professional success. You will explore how to prepare a presentation and the difference between public speaking and delivering a structured presentation. This section also introduces the types of presentations used in professional settings, who needs them, and the “P” factor that underpins a presenter’s presence, preparation, and performance. You will additionally explore the essential ingredients of an effective presentation and how presentation planning and intended outcomes form the foundation of clear communication.
The next learning area focuses on audience analysis and content development. You will explore audience characteristics, how to establish the purpose of the presentation, and how to determine clear, measurable objectives. This section also examines the importance of researching your topic to ensure accuracy, relevance, and credibility. You will review presentation strategies, format options, and delivery methods that align with your purpose and audience needs. This section also guides you in preparing presentation notes and guides and selecting presentation aids, materials, and techniques that enhance clarity and engagement.
A further section examines presentation preparation and support logistics. You will explore the roles and responsibilities of support personnel involved in the presentation and how they assist with administrative matters such as equipment setup, materials distribution, and audience coordination. This section also covers how to evaluate presentation effectiveness through feedback, observation, and structured review processes.
The program then focuses on presentation delivery. You will explore how to deliver a presentation confidently, how to set up the venue to support visibility and interaction, and the importance of body language, eye contact, and voice control. This section also examines how to discuss desired outcomes with the target audience, how to use presentation aids and examples to support understanding, and how to monitor verbal and non-verbal communication from participants to ensure learning objectives are met. You will also explore strategies for dealing with difficult situations and using persuasive communication techniques to secure and maintain audience interest. This section highlights the importance of cultural sensitivity when presenting to diverse groups.
A further learning area focuses on interaction and question management. You will explore how to provide opportunities for participants to seek clarification and how to adjust your presentation to meet participant needs. This section examines how to ask effective questions, manage responses appropriately, respond confidently to audience questions, and deal with difficult or challenging questions. You will also learn how to control persistent questioners professionally while keeping the presentation on track.
The final learning area focuses on review, reflection, and continuous improvement. You will explore how to summarise key concepts and ideas to consolidate participant understanding, how to implement techniques to review presentation effectiveness, and how to discuss feedback from participants or support personnel. This section also examines what audience evaluations reveal about your delivery, content, and engagement, and how to use this feedback to make targeted improvements to your central ideas and presentation structure.
By the end of this course you will be able to design and deliver clear, engaging, and professional presentations; adapt your communication to audience needs; manage questions and challenges confidently; and apply feedback and evaluation techniques to continually refine and strengthen your presentation skills.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:
- The benefits of a good presentation
- The importance of good presentation skills
- How to prepare a presentation?
- What’s the difference between public speaking and a presentation?
- The types of presentations
- Presentations; who needs them?
- The ‘P’ factor in presentations
- The essential ingredients of an effective presentation
- Presentation planning and intended outcomes
- The audience characteristics
- How to establish the purpose of the presentation?
- How to determine the objectives?
- The importance of researching the topic?
- Presentation strategies, format and delivery methods
- How to prepare presentation notes and guides?
- How to select presentation aids, materials and techniques?
- The roles and responsibilities of support personnel involved in the presentation
- How could support personnel help in administration matters?
- How to evaluate presentation effectiveness?
- How to deliver a presentation?
- How to setup the venue?
- The importance of your body language, eye contact and your voice during the presentation
- How to discuss desired outcomes of the presentation with the target audience?
- How to use presentation aids, materials and examples to support target audience understanding?
- How to monitor non-verbal and verbal communication of participants to promote attainment of presentation outcomes?
- How to deal with difficult situations?
- How to use persuasive communication techniques to secure audience interest?
- The importance of cultural sensitivity?
- How to provide opportunities for participants to seek clarification and adjust the presentation to meet participant needs?
- How to ask effective questions?
- How to manage answers appropriately?
- How to respond to questions?
- How to deal with difficult questions?
- How to control persistent questioners?
- How to summarise key concepts and ideas to facilitate participant understanding?
- How to implement techniques to review presentation effectiveness?
- How to discuss feedback to the presentation from participants or from support personnel?
- What does the analysis of an audiences’ evaluations reveal?
- How to use feedback from the audience to make changes to central ideas?
COURSE DURATION:
The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.
ASSESSMENT:
A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.
CERTIFICATION:
Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.