Powerful Presentations - Course Outline

A 1½ day programme to build on and improve existing presentation skills including how to capitalise on and improve existing visual aids.

Day 1

Key Facts

extensive use of video
much 1 to 1 work
visual aid analysis
learning to conquer nerves
optimum group number is 8-10

Day 1 includes three presentations by each participant with video and feedback and includes

analysing a presentation
outlining the objectives
using and abusing visual aids
explaining a simple process
practising voice projection

Presentation 1
A two minute self presentation using a visual aid.

Presentation 2
Explaining a basic process in 2 minutes.
A process will be outlined in 6-8 basic steps using 1-2 visuals.

Presentation 3
Business orientated. 8-10 minute focus on part of a presentation that either the participant has given or will give in the future.

In depth attention is paid to the objectives, the content of the presentation and the visual aids, the number and composition and how many are necessary.

Day 2 (Half day, one week later)

Intensive work with participants on objectives and visual aids following on from Presentation 3 of the previous week.

It is assumed that during the week's interval between the 2 sessions that each participant will rethink their presentation, the length, the content, the quantity and composition of visual aids, indeed their actual necessity of visual aids.

Feedback

I didn't know that speaking in public could actually be enjoyable until I attended Hilary's course

World Bank representative, La Paz, Bolivia

Food for thought

When one addresses an audience of 100 people for 30 minutes, it is the equivalent of taking 3,000 minutes of one person's time. That means 50 hours, or more than 6 days of 8 hours each!