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Persuading Your Audience Using Effective Presentation

Completed 2009

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How to deliver a compelling message and motivate your audience to action.

Course aims

To inspire delegates with just how powerful they can be as a presenter when given the right techniques to invoke enthusiasm, confidence and credibility.

Who will benefit?

Most marketing staff who are required to give presentations, either inexperienced presenters/speakers or experienced presenters/speakers with no formal training, sales staff, those presenting internally and externally to clients or other audiences.

Why should you attend?

  • To learn how to structure and prepare a presentation including researching, designing and mapping the outline
  • To understand how to build a persuasive, interesting and illuminating argument
  • To practice delivering a presentation prepared to guidelines, experiencing the power of increased enthusiasm, confidence and credibility

Key content

Unit 1

  • Practice delivery of initial presentation with feedback and development ideas
  • Pre-preparation – understanding your target audience, the terms of reference, agenda, sub-agendas and politics
  • How to structure, design and map your ideas, research and information in preparation for developing the presentation. Clarify your objectives and purpose for presentation
  • Develop a theme which evokes passion in the presenter and intrigue from the audience

Unit 2

  • The role of voice, projection, tone, pitch and pace
  • Developing rapport with the audience, using eye contact and appropriate body language to maximum advantage
  • Punctuating the presentation with persuasive the presentation with persuasive arguments, and involving the audience to capture interest
  • Using visuals, graphics, illustrations, anecdotes, quotes and involvement to reinforce or illustrate a point
  • Practicing, refining and delivering an updated version of the presentation with feedback