High Impact Presentation Skills

This High Impact Presentation Skills workshop is for executives, supervisors and managers who make numerous presentations to management which requires them to sell their ideas and learn influencing skills. Hard work, good ideas, and information are important for success, but often we are also required to convince others to support or execute our ideas, through presentations.

Business presentations are different from public speaking, though there are many similarities between the two. In a business presentation, you have to influence your audience to ‘buy’ your ideas and take some action.

Experience shows that knowledge of the topic alone does not ensure that the audiences gets our intent or are moved to action. Clear thinking and clear presentation are equally important in a good presentation.

This practical workshop is designed to help learners improve their ability to make high impact presentations that are creative and dinamic, which will influence the audience to accept and implement the ideas introduced in the presentation.

This workshop is designed for all those who are required to present their ideas and information in a business context.

	Communicating orally
	Giving briefings
	Presenting sales proposals

On completion of this workshop, participants will be able to :

	Formulate strategies for specific audiences
	Develop a flexible, flowing structure
	Combine content with complementing presentation style : involving and interactive
	Supplement the presentation with informed responses to questions and challenges

Bob Pike’s High Impact Presentation Skills Model

Practical sessions with fun tools, lectures, activities, and videos that enhance confidence. Presentations will be videotaped; the facilitators and the group will provide feedback for further improvement. Each participant will take home a video of their presentation.

2 Days

Background
	‘Just A Minute’ presentations
	Qualities of great presenters
	Public speaking
	Influencing
	Business presentations
	Presentation formats for :
		Providing information
		Reporting progress
		Selling an idea
		Obtaining approvals/Decision making
		Problem solving
		Training
	Making your case
Strategy
	Tailoring strategy to meet audience needs (stakeholders/customers)
	Planning and preparation
	Challenge the Process
Structure
	Organising information
	Building context
		Outlines
		Roadmaps
	Visuals
Styles
	Presenting content creatively
	Involving the audience/Gaining and maintaining attention
	Interacting with audience using stories, anecdotes, analogies, and examples
	Recognising ‘buy in’ to create high impact
	Appropriate body language
	Voice modulation
	Persuasiveness
	Videos and props