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Presentation Skills for Professionals
Workshop Agenda
Course Content Overview: The following are topics that will be covered in this three-day workshop. This seminar will allow you to experience, analyze, and apply information that you learn through the modules below.
Module One: Checking Your Baggage to Speaker Success
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Distinguish presentation myths and truths
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Identify personal presentation fears
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Explore seven fear fixers
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Discover presenter myths that can trip you up and truths that can propel success
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Support skills that avoid storms and lead to smooth sailing to speaker success
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Probe your presenter fears
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Meet ways to temper tension, project your voice and set the pace for learners
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Examine the seven fear fixers to find what will work for you
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Believe in your own assessment to shed your personal storms
Module Two: Leveraging Your Vocal Options
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Analyze variety of expression
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Differentiate sincere from sarcastic tones
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Demonstrate vocal variety
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Discover techniques to help vary your voice
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Examine if you are being perceived as sincere or sarcastic
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Practice implementing techniques that give vocal variety
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Discuss critical factors to analyze vocals
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Take tips for verbal, visual and vocal cues.
Module Three: Polishing Your Preparation Organization
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Evaluate your PowerPoint slides
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Write knowledge and application objectives
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Explore the Instructor-Led, Participant-Centered model
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Rehearse the use of gestures
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Recognize distracting body language
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Demonstrate effective body language and visuals
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Find the three ways to raise the bar with openers and commit to act with closers
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Implement tactics to use their energy, not yours
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Identify 15 preventable pitfalls new presenters/trainers should avoid
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Propel your presentation with effective PowerPoint
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Recognize the top 10 reasons a handout becomes a takeaway and not a throwaway
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Practice the gist of gestures and where they fit
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Examine 24 tips of body language to use and lose
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Organize by design, not default-choose what fits your purpose
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Evaluate objectives for clarity and action
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Use checklists to help you prepare, perform and organize your material
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Isolate need-to-know from nice-to-know content
Module Four: Continuing Your Smooth Sailing to Speaker Success
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Recognize seven techniques for handling questions effectively
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Describe use of metaphors, analogies and props
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Identify 18 ways to engage the audience
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Apply vocal, verbal and visual skills to a presentation
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Activate your audience with 18 Entertaining Engagers
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Polish your use of props, metaphors & analogies to speed transfer to long-term memory
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Practice presentation techniques in a safe, feedback-friendly, motivating environment
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Select questioning techniques that are introvert-friendly
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Integrate your survival kit into an upcoming presentation
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Select inspired interactive learning activities
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Develop effective techniques for handling questions
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