Making Powerful Presentations - Make more impact, expand your influence and get results by increasing the power of your presentations.

Presentations are opportunities – to communicate information and ideas; to persuade people to take new of different course of action; to sell an idea or a product; and to gain commitment..

Creating Powerful Presentations takes participants from the initial "call to present" to a completed script and effective visual aids. It explains how to formulate objectives, analyze audience needs and tailor their approach appropriately. It provides tools and techniques to help plan and write a well structured, compelling presentation. And it shows participants how to design and use effective visual aids so that their presentations result in positive action.

Topics

Planning Your Presentation

• What Makes Presentations Powerful?
• Thinking About the Presentation

• Getting Started
• Developing Key Messages
• Structuring the Presentation
• Bringing the Message Alive
• Compelling Openers and Closes
• Creating Visuals and Support Materials

Managers will:

• Know the indicators of successful presentations.
• Be able to make a high level plan for a presentation: set objectives, analyze the audience, anticipate logistical curve-balls and decide an overall presentation style.
• Appreciate the need to start writing early.
• Be able to develop key messages for a presentation.
• Know the different options for structuring presentation content.
• Be familiar with techniques for bringing the message alive, such as the power of the Rule of Threes, making it human and… using suspense.
• Know how to write powerful presentation openers and closes, and understand their role in getting the message across.
• Know what makes powerful visual aids and support materials.