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