COURSE OVERVIEW:

Effective presentation skills are a part of communication. You need effective presentation skills to present your ideas, projects, plans, strategies and products in front of the audience, team and in front of venture capitalist online and offline. In this interaction, it’s important to have technical and non-technical presentation skills to achieve the end goal.

Preparation is an important part of making a successful presentation. It is an absolutely crucial foundation, and you should dedicate as much time to it as possible, avoiding short-cuts. Good preparation will ensure that you have thought carefully about the messages that you want (or need) to communicate in your presentation and it will also help boost your confidence.

Making a presentation puts you on public display. An audience not only listens to your ideas, it also responds to the way you use your voice and your body. You need more than a well written presentation to make an impact. You will also need to deliver it in a lively, flexible and interesting way. In this course we suggest many ideas for invoking energy in your presentation style.

The first part of this course offers you help on the first step of your journey towards a great presentation: preparation.

The second part will help you deliver it with confidence and style. Then we provide you with simple techniques to fight back against nerves that could destroy your presentation. After that, we will help you use the different forms of non-verbal communication to help get your message across effectively and to build rapport with your audience.

Finally, we will spend some time thinking through all the things that could possibly go wrong and (if possible) taking preventive action, or (if not) planning what to do in the event.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

• The importance of preparing great presentations
• How to work out your objectives?
• Why you should find out what you need to know about your audience?
• Why you should make sure you’ve got your facts straight?
• Why you should think about the venue, the visual aids and equipment?
• The importance of practise
• The common mistakes when preparing a presentation
• How to deliver great presentations?
• The structure of your presentation
• How to introduce your presentation?
• How to make an impact in the main section of the presentation?
• How to conclude your presentation?
• The importance of your posture and delivery?
• How to make a dignified exit?
• The common mistakes when delivering a presentation
• How to fight back against nerves?
• Don’t let shyness be a barrier
• The physical effects of worry
• How to boost your message with your body language?
• How to make a good entrance?
• How to use positive postures?
• How to make sure that your posture doesn’t betray your nerves as you speak?
• How to be natural with gestures?
• How to watch your tone and mannerisms?
• Why match your clothes to the occasion?
• How to survive worst-case scenarios during presentations?
• How to manage the audience ?
• How to arrange the seating sensibly?
• How to deal with disruptions?
• How to deal with a difficult situation?
• How to survive unexpected time issues?
• What to do if you lose your train of thought mid-sentence?
• The most common nerve induced pitfalls, and what to do about them

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.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

You must have access to a computer or any mobile device with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF Viewer) installed, to complete this course.

COURSE DELIVERY:

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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”.