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Presentation Skills for New Trainers and Subject Matter Experts
Workshop Agenda
 

1. Make sure your Presentation Boosts, not Busts your Career

  • Explore key benefits to presenting and training experience.
  • Discover presenter myths that can mess you up and truths that can take you to the next level.
  • Take the mystery out of training/ presenting terminology.
  • Support skills that avoid storms and lead to smooth sailing to speaker success

2. Face your Fear Before your Fear Fails You

  • Probe your presenter fears.
  • Meet ways to temper tension, project your voice and set the pace for learners
  • Examine the seven fear fixers to find what will work for you.
  • Believe in your own assessment to shed your personal storms.

3. Prepare your Point with the End in Mind

  • Isolate need to know from nice to know content
  • Evaluate objectives for clarity and action
  • Select inspired interactive learning activities

4. Set up, Flow and Purpose

  • Organize by design not default—choose what fits your purpose.
  • Dissect your room layout options by sight lines, benefits and barriers.
  • Steps to prepare you and your room so participants prosper.
  • Experience tools to capture best practices.
  • Analyze the differences between facilitator, trainer and presenter.
  • See the Top Ten reasons a handout becomes a takeaway and not a throwaway.

5. Speak with your Body and the Gist of Gestures

  • Facts about body language many masters don't even practice
  • Visit 24 tips around body language to use and lose.
  • Use the quick, the clear and the varied: Sound bites that sell your message.
  • See the gist of gestures and where they fit.
  • Take tips for verbal, visual and vocal cues.

6. Pay Attention to the People while Presenting your Point

  • Find the three ways to raise the bar with openers and commit to act with closers.
  • Take away tactics to use their energy, not yours.
  • Fifteen preventable pitfalls new presenters/ trainers could avoid if they only knew…
  • Take them from Point A to B with 18 Entertaining Engagers.

7. Expanding Your Presenter Toolkit

  • Propel your presentation with effective PowerPoint®.
  • Polish your props, metaphors & analogies to speed transfer to long-term memory.
  • Experience the power of ‘frames' to inspire interest in your topic.
  • Select questioning techniques that are introvert-friendly.

8. Practice, Practice, Practice

  • Integrate your survival kit into an upcoming presentation.
  • Practice in a safe, feedback-friendly, motivating environment.
  • Use checklists to help you prepare, perform and organize your material
  • Try tricky tests to isolate learners who “get it” from those who “don't”
 

 

 



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