Presentation Skills training

'Plan, design and deliver powerful and persuasive presentations.'

Brainpower Training works inside companies and organisations with groups of their staff in a Facilitator-led workshop of around 10 people at a time (usually two days, with the second day devoted to video critique), to develop their ability to present to groups.

Program content

• Understand how to structure your content
• Tips for opening and closing your talk
• Know how to use your voice and your body
• Control rhythm, speed, volume and pitch
• Overcome nerves and anxiety through ‘anchoring’ techniques
• How to use visual aids to support your ideas
• Avoid ‘death by PowerPoint®' – less text, more visuals
• Apply adult learning principles and know how to ask quality questions
• Understand various learning styles and preferences of your audience
• Use strategies for handling Q & A sessions
• Be able to deliver an engaging presentation without PowerPoint®

 

Presentation Skills Outcomes

On completion of the program participants will be able to:

• Structure a presentation using an introduction, body and conclusion
• Demonstrate effective voice control
• Demonstrate effective spatial positioning and timing
• Use posture, presence and body movement to reinforce their message
• Control rhythm, speed, volume and pitch during presentations
• Use supporting media to add impact to presentations
• Feel confident, if the technology fails, they can deliver a presentation without PowerPoint ®
• Overcome nerves through an 'anchoring' technique from NLP
• Apply basic adult learning principals to presentations
• Recognise and take advantage of learning styles and sensory preferences of your audience

 

* For best results, this workshop is most often delivered as a two-day program (maximum 10 participants) with the second day mainly presenting to video then playback, with self, peer and Facilitator critique.

 

It may be delivered as a one-day program (up to 16 participants) with minimal or no presenting by participants.

 

Video critique

 

A two-day workshop (maximum 10 participants) with the second day mainly presenting to video then playback and self, peer and Facilitator critique.  Participants comment how valuable it is to see yourself as others see you! 

 

We've seen many a bad habit, such as:

• verbal mannerisms ('um', 'you know', 'now')
• poor eye contact
• distracting movement
  

cured, simply by seeing themselves played back on video.

 

We've also seen amateur speakers transform, skilled presenters become more confident and polished with the guidance of our experienced and savvy Facilitator.

 
Find out more about our training approach

For a pdf of our company brochure, click here

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Understand our quality process for customising

1. Diagnostic Conversation TM


 

We can have a structured conversation over the phone about your training needs, asking you some questions that are usually easy to answer.

There's no obligation, but if you do decide to go ahead, we can forward this info to our Facilitator as your 'brief', describing your specific learning and business-related outcomes.

 

This process is useful to do even before you decide which training provider to move forward with. During this discussion you can judge if our course content matches what you are looking for and whether we are the right cultural fit for your organisation.





2. Scenarios

Once your course is confirmed, we send our 'scenarios request' e-mail for you to forward to your people requesting them to send in short situations or dilemmas they may experience in the workplace relevant to the topic. Alternatively, you can simply come up with 5 or 6 that are representative.





3. Pre-call

In addition, our experienced and qualified Facilitator will contact you by phone prior to the workshop to confirm logistics and what you'd like emphasised or focused on.



4. Video-based post-course coaching.





Included in your investment is a month of video-based coaching delivered straight to your people's inboxes by e-mail. Received one every four days, there's a series of 7 video tips - bite-size, one or two-minute quick web video reviewing key concepts of presenting.

Like YouTube, these appeal to today's professionals. 

                                                  Case Study

A Financial services company engaged us to deliver a two-day Presentation Skills program for staff who were going to deliver a presentation 'roadshow' in Hong Kong.

Their key people were inexperienced presenters.

We videoed each of their introduction and opening, then a minutes of their presentation, then their ending and handling of Q&A. We invited self, peer and Facilitator feedback.

Classic mistakes of most novices were evident:

-  lack of eye contact, or favouring one side of the room
-  jiggling of legs or fidgeting of hands
-  vocal mannerisms, ('um', 'ah')
-  lack of fluency, nor an engaging conversational style
-  talking 'at' their audience
-  over-reliance on notes or PowerPoint.

Over the two days, the transformation was profound.  Amateur presenter became competent, confident presenter became masterful.



What do people say about our Presentation Skills workshop?


‘Our education specialist who attended the training commented it was evident participants made significant changes to the way they presented.  She would be confident the team would increase their engagement with participants during seminars and workshops, and there would be a better result.


Rob Brown, Manager Client Service, Sunsuper

 

 ‘Covered a lot of topics in short time and managed to grasp basics of a good presentation and make noticeable improvement in a short time.’




Helen Atkins, Itochu