Business Presentation and Persuasive Public Speaking Skills Course

Business Presentation and Persuasive Public Speaking Skills Course addresses:

• Sales presentation
• Proposal’s presentation
• Reports presentation.

Participants also practice

• Technical lecture
• Special speaking situation (e.g. post-dinner speech)
• Motivational speaking.

Broad Competencies Addressed

• Confidence in handling presentations
• Planning for presentation roles, cues and equipment
• Exploiting the secrets of great presenters
• Using the three dimensions to obtaining favourable decisions
• Adept at asking for and get the desired decision.

Course Contents

Day One

Central Competence

• Factors that must be considered before presenting
• Opening style
• Holding attention
• Audience concentration curve
• Interests – the peaks and the lows
• Eye contact
• Gesticulations
• Stage management
• Presentation tool - everything counts
• Do sweat the details
• Final count down
• Show time
• Managing stage fright

Day Two

Business Pitch

• Overview of a Presentation that Grabs
• Who are the Players?
• Your Presentation Objective
• Simple 3 Step Approach.

Sales Presentation

• How to be persuasive and lead a potential buyer to purchase a product or service
• How to discover the true purchase authority
• How to focus the sales presentation on the central authority
• How to clearly demonstrate that the presenter’s offering surpasses other options available.

Elevator Ride Pitch

• Precision
• Thinking on your feet
• Time bound.

Day Three

Proposal/Ideas Presentation

• What every Proposal Presentation should include:
  1. Informative
  2. Persuasive

• Report Presentation
• Relevant Audio-Visuals Aids
  • “Seeing is Believing”
  • Speaker Gains

• Presentation Aids – technical considerations
• Types of Presentation Aids
• Body Movement and Stage Management
• Time Management
• Tricks Around Stage Fright.

PowerPoint Proficiency

• Create Presentation
• Add Slides
• Enter Text
• Format Text - Font Styles and Effects
• Adding a Picture
• Adding ClipArt
• Create a Statistical Table
• Convert Statistical Table into Charts
• Slide Show Effects – Transitions, Slide Animation
• Save a Presentation.

Note: Available as Classroom Training as Well as Online Training