Audience

Business and technical professionals who want to develop skill and confidence in making oral presentations.

Five speaking opportunities!

This course can be shortened to fit your time constraints.

To organize a customized session:

585-461-3617 (US)
800-650-3269

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1. identify an audience's primary interests, and then develop a topic to satisfy the audience's needs,
2. establish a warm, positive, yet businesslike presence,
3. trim their information to keep their presentation concise yet complete,
4. develop confidence in speaking in an informal or formal setting, and
5. moderate a multiple-speaker presentation.

The emphasis on each topic will depend on pre-course consultation with the client and specific concerns expressed by course participants at the start of the course. The topics will include

• planning and preparing an oral presentation,
• focusing a presentation to capture and hold audience attention,
• differentiating between need-to-know and nice-to-know information,
• creating speaking notes and visual aids,
• devising an interesting opening,
• presenting to inform vs. presenting to persuade,
• presenting information at informal and formal venues,
• developing an effective platform manner,
• coping with nervousness,
• using body language to create a positive impression,
• introducing a speaker or acting as a moderator for a series of speakers,
• participating in a group presentation, and
• answering questions from the audience.

Instruction on how to plan and deliver a technical presentation (25%), with each participant making at least five oral presentations (75%). Individual presentations will range from 3 to 15 minutes, and will be followed by discussion and feedback.

3 days or divided into half days (can shorten to fit your schedule)

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