Effective Presentation Skills(Soft Skills Category)

At the end of the course, learners will be able to:

• Recognize the importance of presentation skills for career development.
• Identify the reasons that cause unbearable presentations and poor audience engagement.
• Formulate SMART objective for a presentation.
• Identify audience expectations, knowledge, experience, culture and interests.
• Prepare and plan for a professional presentation with high impact.
• Organizing ideas and information using map of ideas.
• Recognize and understand different presentation structures and styles, and when and how to use each.
• Build logical and impressing presentation, develop an introduction, capture the audience attention by using presentation openers, organize the body of the presentation, use transitions, and conclude the presentation.
• Use clear, impressive and meaningful slides and visuals.
• Build strong audience rapport while persuading and influencing to gain acceptance of proposals or new ideas.
• Use visual aids, supporting material, demonstrations, charts and question-and-answer techniques.
• Deliver a presentation with confidence, and use nonverbal communication aids.
• Learn how to overcome stage fright and tension.
• Handle different types of audience effectively, and understand why audience fail to listen.
• Adopt professional body language and clear voice, and avoid distracting or casual gestures.
• Dress-up professionally for a business presentation.