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Presentation Skills Training

Become a confident and memorable presenter.
Engage your audience and make your key points memorably.

Presentation Skills Training
Overview

This presentation skills course will show you how to present with enthusiasm and confidence. Start looking forward to the chance to make a presentation, rather than dreading it.

This is a highly interactive course. Throughout it, you will practice what you are being shown using a presentation that you have delivered or are planning to deliver in the near future.

We will ensure that you return to work a far more relaxed presenter.

By the end of this course you will know how to:

  • Recognise the purpose and components of an impactful presentation.
  • Assess your own presentation skills.
  • Understand the key areas that you find most difficult.
  • Structure a presentation for maximum effect.
  • Deliver a presentation with confidence.
  • Use props for added emphasis.

Audience

This course is open to anyone who would like to improve their presentation skills.

In order to be able to practice what you are learning, you will need to bring along, material that can be used in the preparation of a short 5-minute presentation.

This could be part of a work-related presentation that you have or will need to present or an interest.

Course Details
  • Self-assessing your current level of presentation skills.
  • Identifying your main areas for development.
  • Recognising your workplace needs and opportunities for presenting
  • Tackling nerves
  • Identifying the key purpose of your presentation
  • Knowing what and how to best plan
  • Scoping the structure of an impactful presentation
  • Content: What you should include into your presentation?
  • Contact: How you should interact with your audience?
  • Control: How to control your audience.
  • Getting and keeping the audience’s interest
  • Demonstrating confidence
  • Using your vocal power
  • Displaying positive body language
  • Staying in command
  • Handling questions with authority
  • What should you use?
  • When should you use it?
  • How to control the impact a resource has.
  • Using your key resource: your audience.
  • Committing to your personal action plan.
  • Identifying which specific activities you will do differently tomorrow.
  • Using the Implementation/Impact matrix so that your plan becomes a reality.
Your Trainer
Picture Showing Trainer For This Course, Barbara

Barbara has been designing and delivering leadership and management workshops for over 20 years. She is a member of the ILM, the Institute of Coaching and the Chartered Management Institute.

She started her career in marketing management with Proctor & Gamble and Rank Hovis McDougall before moving into training and 1:1 coaching.

Locations
London Training Centre
8 - 12 New Bridge St
London, EC4N 7BE
Tel: 0203 143 8100

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Guildford Training Centre
Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road
Guildford, GU2 7YG
Tel: 01483 380 390

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Private Courses

We’ll happily create a custom course for you if that is what you would prefer.

Simply let us know exactly what you would like to focus on during your day during the pre-course consultation and we’ll create one just for you.

We will customise it just for you:

  • 1-2-1 or in-house with your colleagues?
  • At your offices or in one of our centres?
  • Focusing only on certain key topics?

The Day

We ask you to arrive by 9.15am.

This means that you can be comfortably seated and settled in with a cup of coffee or tea and ready to start at 9.30am sharp.

We offer supportive, relaxed classes and some of the nicest instructors on the planet.

We include everything that you will need to have a great training day:

  • Plenty of refreshments and biscuits through the day.
  • A tasty, freshly prepared lunch.
  • Comfortable, fully air-conditions training rooms.
  • A full-colour presentation skills book to take home with you.

We don’t have a dress code. Please come dressed in whatever you are most comfortable wearing.

FAQs

We will send you a booking confirmation as soon as we process your email.

This will include full of your course booking and also a full tax invoice.

It should hopefully give you all the information that you need but if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch, we’re here to help.

We accept credit and debit cards and also direct bank transfers.

No there is no dress code for our courses.

Please come wearing whatever you are most comfortable in.

If you have any special needs or requirements please let us know when you book your course so that we can confirm that we’ll be able to accommodate your needs before you book the course. Please also let the trainer know at the start of your training day.

You can change your course dates up to 14 days before the course start date subject to an administrator fee of £95 + VAT. Changes cannot be made to the booking within 14 days of the course start date.

Please see our full terms and conditions for more details.

No. We provide everything that you need for the training day.

The only additional costs for you will be travel to and from the training venue and accommodation overnight if that is required.