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Effective Presentation Skills - Advanced

The ability to give easy-to-follow and memorable presentations is a core skill in today’s business world. Speakers who can control their material, audience and themselves command respect and attention and are more likely to gain influence and achieve results.

BENEFITS
This practical two-day advanced workshop concentrates on deepening your understanding of the elements of successful presentations. It covers techniques for controlling your material as well as making an impact and engaging your audience. You will be videoed during your presentations and will be given a chance to analyse your performance and will receive individual feedback from your trainer.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

analyse what makes a good presentation and presenter
use introductions and conclusions correctly
control your own non verbal communication
use intonation, pausing and emphasis effectively
deliver a successful presentation

COURSE OUTLINE

Structuring a presentation
Making an impact
Using gestures
Using signposting language
Using your voice: pace, pausing, emphasising and sentence stress
Using rhetorical questions
Using hooks
Handling questions
Dealing with problems
Using music and sound effects
Using visual aids

WHO THE COURSE IS FOR?
Anyone who gives presentations and wants to take their skills to the next level. Familiarity with the content covered in our Presentation Skills workshop is essential. Please also note that participants must be of at least Upper Intermediate level English.

When:

Time:

16 and 17 May

(from 0900 to 1600)
Where:

Cinnamon Lakeside, Colombo 2

Fee:
Individual price - Rs. 19,600/- (includes lunch and
  refreshments)
At your own
premises
- Rs. 186,000/- (up to 12 participants)
  This price does not include the
  cost of transporting the trainer
  to and from your premises
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