Effective Presentation Skills Training

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The ability of a leader or resource person to talk to large groups , keep their attention, and communicate their ideas to them is a common tool in their skill set. Organizing speaking activities and in particular facilitating presentations is very valuable and extremely useful for most companies. An effective presenter is a valuable tool in teaching and informing large groups of people with essential knowledge. This can be done in a short time frame and with limited resources.

While a presenter is valuable, it can be difficult to find someone who will properly deliver one. It is a delicate balance between teacher, public speaker, or demonstrator. All of these are difficult enough on their own but become more demanding when they are all required at once. The things presenters heavily depend on are brevity, cost-effectiveness and simplicity. The presenter must be able to deliver the lessons and knowledge to students in the time span of a few days. Budget constraints can make it difficult to access important presentations and key materials. This can also affect the speaker's ability to balance all these elements while keeping their audience's attention.

Paramount Training and Development understands the difficulties, complexities and issues presented by presenters. We also recognize the need to be able to conduct those presentations. The knowledge and skills they are able to share with their audience is very useful. We created our Effective Presentation Skills course to help potential presenters and resource people. It aims to teach them how they can be more effective in their roles.

Consistency and dynamism are the keywords for effective presentation. Presenters need to be consistent in how they treat their audience and the material and presentation they make. Dynamism is when you consider the audience the presenter is working in, the environment they're presented in, and the resources they have. Paramount Training and Development created this course to help presenters balance the two.

This training session is available in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Effective Presentation Skills Training Outline

Become proficient at public speaking engagements

First and foremost, presentations are social-interactions between presenter and those they’re presenting to. Learners undertaking Effetive Presentation skills training are expected to be able to handle themselves in situations where they are presenting to many people at once. This part of the course will allow learners to overcome their stage-freight (if they possess it) and give them strategies on how to maintain their composure in this speaking format, then as they progress; learn how to address the crowd in an acceptable fashion, until eventually they can do this while also effectively giving their audience the information and know-how that they are supposed to present.

Learn to adapt to their intended audiences

The audience plays a great role – perhaps even greater than the presenter themselves – in any presentation. The audience is the very thing that the presenter is attempting to persuade and teach during a seminar and therefore must be the one most catered to by presentation and style. This is key, as many factors can radically change the effectiveness of a speaker in whatever format they wish to use. Age, profession, experience, prior knowledge, and more all need to be considered while creating the presentation and while conducting it; a presentation for young adults with little experience will likely matter little to senior officers in an office, while a dry lecture on the eccentricities of the global financial market will likely get nothing but confused responses from a room of most workers. Participants undertaking Effective Presentation training are taught early on how to work accordingly to these constraints and hopefully present something worthwhile to their intended audience.

Fully and effectively use their resources

Another limit often strictly imposed on a presenter or the presenter prefers to work in, is the budget and the resources one has available to conduct said presentation. A presenter can create the most effective and captivating powerpoint presentation in the world for their lecture on brainstorming, but it would matter little if they were then assigned to a far flung and impoverished environment without electricity, much less the necessary audio-visual aids that would allow them to properly present their material to their intended audience. Those undertaking Effective Presentation Skills training are taught not only to adapt to their audiences’ needs but also the environment, and are given all the necessary methods and strategies that can allow them to present their material as effectively as possible regardless of the material and resources at hand.

Learn how to create appropriate presentations

With audience and environment factored in, it is then the learners’ job to create a presentation using the most appropriate formats available to them. In continuing with the theme of flexibility and adjustment omnipresent in Effective Presentation training, learners are tutored by lecturers and tutors from the fields of mass communication on how to create and utilise the many media formats available to them in this day and age, and which ones to use for the greatest effect.

Create and present their own unique presentation style

Charisma plays a good role in presenting something. It can motivate an audience whom normally find certain material to be dry and uninteresting to listen attentively and listen well. while our learners are not expected to become charismatic lecturers that can sweep the nation, they will be taught strategies and guidelines that will allow them to grab and retain their audiences’ attention and enthusiasm, ensuring that their presentations will be as fruitful and effective as they can be in this aspect.