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Presentation Skills
There’s a whole load of fascinating stuff that you could know about public speaking and presentations. Like how the Romans stressed structure in oratory, whereas the Greeks emphasised persuasion and logic. Or how the pathetic appeal (one made to the emotions or feelings) differs from the logical appeal (made to logical mind).
Or you could study in detail the work of Professor Edward Tufte and his analyses of PowerPoint as a communications tool. Or you could memorise the shortest, most-quoted speech in history*.
But even if you learned all that, it wouldn’t make you any better as a presenter.
We will.
Here’s how; we bring you in, make you stand up in front of a group and present. And we watch, carefully. And listen, intently. We look at how well you relate to your audience. We assess the structure and sequence of your communication. We analyse your use of data and illustration. We test your assertions. We interrogate your visuals. And then we show you how to improve.
No waffle. No stuff about stance, or clothes or gestures or jokes. Just interventions tailored to make you sure that the next time you make a presentation it’s interesting, understandable and memorable.
You’ll also get all the easy stuff about using PowerPoint, handling statistics, dealing with questions, scripting, preparation and delivery.
We have two courses;
1)Presentation Skills
2)Advanced Presentation skills
If you have to give talks to staff, brief your board, or you’ve been press-ganged into getting behind a podium, then our Presentation Skills course is what you need. If you present regularly (you’re on the conference circuit, or you’ve got a burgeoning career as a motivational speaker, or you’re a lecturer) then you’d be better with the advanced course.
Both programmes are two days long and have a maximum attendance of seven. (Any more than that and we can’t dedicate time and analysis to each person). We can deliver a one-day course if you really can’t spare two. But it’s not as effective. If you’re tight on time, we recommend a gap between day one and day two. It lets you go home, do some homework, implement what you’ve learned and come back for more (and you don’t have to be out of the office for 48 straight hours. Which would cause your company and possibly civilisation as we know it to collapse…)
*Oh, come on. You should be able to guess this one. He had a little beard and a big hat. Click here for the answer.