An articulate presentation with state-of-the-art multimedia is essential in giving you the ability to communicate your objectives. Learn to deliver well structured presentations using positive vocal techniques to help you command your listeners' attention, to influence their perception of your ideas and to communicate with greater impact

Michael Comyn and Poll Moussoulides, world-class communication skills experts will ensure that your presentations are the best they can be. Our highly unique two day course will ensure that you are match fit and in control when the opportunities arise.

Course Benefits: What will you gain?

• Clarify your objectives - relate your strategic business objectives to the presentation approach
• Optimise your vocal strengths and unite body, voice and speech to create total communication
• Audience profiling - an understanding of what your audience wants and how to make it work for you
• Personal rhetorical style and devices - develop and improve your speaking style
• Create an impression - ensure your messages are understood and remembered
• Learn to communicate with more confidence and personal impact
• Speak with confidence, clarity and authority
• Command attention from your listener and influence their perception of your message
• Express yourself more clearly and effectively
• Persuasion techniques -the difference between presentation and persuasion
• Audio visual technology - leading edge technology to support your messages and style
• Complicated need not mean boring - how to make the complicated interesting
• Techniques to manage audience perceptions and to adjust your presentation in line with audience reaction
• Prepare notes that work for you
• Deal with questions and interruptions

Part One: Get Results

• Understand what your audience wants and how to make it work for you - we look at effective techniques of profiling your audience and how it can make your presentation the one that's noticed
• Develop your personal rhetorical style - knowing your strengths and working to them to develop a unique style that creates an impression
• The difference between presentation and persuasion - how to move your speaking style to a new level that ensures your messages are understood and remembered
• Rhetorical devices - simple steps to enhance your personal presentation style
• Assess your Impact- to develop and improve your speaking style it is fundamental that you have a credible basis on which to assess your performance

Part Two: Perceptions of a Highly Communicative Voice with Ireland's leading voice coach Poll Moussoulides

• Explore the Voice of Leadership concept
• Identify the dynamics of your voice and become more effective in your vocal delivery
• Find, protect and develop your voice
• Why some people make an impact and others don't?
• What makes an audience listen?
• Content versus delivery - how to find the correct balance
• Anxiety and fear in communication
• The power of communication - to lead well you must communicate well

Part Three: Stay in Control
Each presentation presents a different challenge and this section ensures that you stay in control and focused whatever the situation may demand. Areas covered include

• How to give your audience a sense of achievement
• Preparing notes that work for you
• Ten simple steps to success
• How to improve your presentation
• It may be complicated but it need not be boring
• Dealing with questions and interruptions
• Becoming a professional MC
• Generating publicity if you need it

Part Four: Visual Aids -
The range and options available to support and enhance presentations are outlined to cover visual, hearing and feeling. How you use visual aids can set you apart from others and this course shows you how to use them imaginatively and effectively to support your messages. We show you how to avoid the problem areas of visual aids - where less is more.

• Modern technology and how it can help you
• Increasing impact through images
• Making a complex message more understandable
• A range of ideas and approaches that will make certain you have a variety of options to apply to your own style
• How to relate your strategic business objectives to the presentation approach - using the technology that adds to your message.
• Making it work on the day- how to avoid the nightmare of audio-visual presentations that break down

Part Five: Putting it into Practice
You will be required to bring along and make a short presentation on a subject you have prepared, ideally an organisational pitch or presentation that attempts to influence others. The object of this is to facilitate the giving of constructive feedback and advice to build on your individual strengths.

The training style adopted seeks to encourage and reassure as well as providing challenge and stimulation. This section is central to the overall effectiveness of the day. Feedback from ongoing courses is very positive.

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