Target Audience:
Businesspeople who have completed the Executive Presentation Skills program and who wish to continue refining their presentation skills and learn new techniques for various other presentation situations
General Description:
A 1-day, instructor-led presentation skills program for no more than 10 participants with one instructor, and no more than 14 participants with two instructors. Participants complete a preprogram assignment and receive a course manual and their personal videotapes.
Program Objective:
By the end of the program, participants will have further developed their physical and verbal presentation skills, as well as their ability to present with visuals. They will also be prepared to apply those skills to new situations, such as team presenting, leading a discussion, presenting with handouts, presenting from a script, briefing the boss, impromptu speaking, handling challenging people, and large group Q&A.
Teaching Methods:
- Interactive lecture
- Group exercises and role-plays
- Individual practice with “in-the-moment” instructor coaching
- Instructor and peer feedback
- Videotaped practice and review
Benefits to the Learner:
- Increased competence in a career-enhancing core business skill
- Increased mastery of physical and verbal presentation skills
- Ability to apply communication skills to a variety of business situations
- Confidence in one's skill at handling business communication situations
- Ability to deliver clear messages that command attention and achieve desired outcomes
- Ability to handle people productively in meetings and discussions
- Enhanced skill at delivering messages while using media
Benefits to the Organization:
- Messages are clear, focused, and concisely delivered
- Messages are delivered in an accurate and professional manner within the organization, as well as to customers and suppliers
- Employees have the confidence to handle themselves professionally in a variety of communication situations
- Professional standards are set for those who communicate both internally and externally
- Company capitalizes on investment made in Executive Presentation Skills training
- Employees view company as having offered important career-enhancing job benefit
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• The right message • The right audience • The right way
Executive Presentation Skills -- Level 2
- Introductions of instructor and group
- Review the agenda and training process
- Participants share experiences they've had using skills from Executive Presentation Skills program
- Presentation of assigned pre-work
- Videotaped exercise: Deliver a presentation with at least 2 slides Videotapes reviewed individually (or with 2nd instructor)
- Instructor and group review presentations and discuss how skills were used with your Communispond representative, you may configure your program with four (4) hours of training chosen from the list of Modules A through E . Please check timing carefully.
- Recap of skills
- Evaluate the experience and plan for using skills on the job
- Conclusion
- Overview of how to lead a discussion
- Group brainstorm of effective ground rules
- Setting ground rules, asking effective questions, playback, and summarizing
- Exercise: Practice using open-ended questions to open discussion, involve group members, and uncover more information
- Videotaped practice with instructor coaching: Lead a discussion using open-ended questions, acknowledgments, playback, and summarizing Videotapes reviewed individually (or with 2nd instructor)
- Overview of 5 types of difficult people
- Discussion of how to handle each type, using probing and playback
- Small group exercise with peer feedback: Multiple roleplays to practice handling several types of problem people
- Videotaped practice with instructor coaching: Role-play handling one type of problem person
- Videotapes reviewed individually (or with 2nd instructor)
- How to mark up a handout for presentation
- Exercise: Prepare a handout for presentation
- Techniques for effective presentation with handouts
- Instructor demonstration of presenting with handouts
- Small group practice: Presenting with a handout
- Overview of the challenges of presenting as a team
- Strategies for successful team presenting: planning, roles and responsibilities, starting the presentation, managing hand-offs, being a good audience, and closing
- Options for physical positioning and handling Q&A
- Exercise: Plan a team presentation and roles for each presenter. Plan the opening, close, and hand-offs of the team presentation
- Videotaped exercise with coaching: Individual team members open, hand-off, handle Q&A, and close
- Videotapes reviewed individually (or with 2nd instructor)
- What makes presenting from a script difficult?
- Exercise: Participants read from a script
- How to mark up a text for presenting
- Exercise: Individual practice preparing a text
- Strategies for reading from prepared text
- How to give a presentation from a podium
- Videotaped exercise with coaching: Using a prepared script, present from behind a podium
- Videotapes reviewed individually (or with 2nd instructor)
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