High Impact Presentation Skills

Program Overview

This 2-day instructor led training program focuses on enhanced rapport building skills including probing, persuasiveness, empathy, active listening, articulate speaking including voice, body language and power words. Hence, creating the capability and confidence to influence & present ideas in a more compelling manner.

Participant feedback on: Shahrukh’s Presentation skills training

Training objectives

Connect with and excite the audience right at the opening stage

Develop clarity and precision in verbal communication.

Improve non-verbal communication, including body language and facial expressions.

Create engaging and persuasive content through logically structured presentation slides that intrigue your audience.

Learn techniques for responding to questions and handling audience feedback

Develop strategies for managing challenging or unexpected situations.

Keep participants listening even for boring or dry topics

Learn to develop the presentation dialogue that you can deliver naturally (so you won’t sound like you’re reading)…

Learn the art of storytelling to make presentations more engaging.

Incorporate narrative techniques to make messages memorable.

Harness the pain points and pleasure points of your audience so they are glued to what you have to say…

How to speak with the right pace and inflections to keep everyone listening to you no matter the topic…

Administrative details

Who should attend

This program is prepared for executives, supervisors and managers.

Methodology

This programme employs adult learning techniques which include fun active learning strategies to facilitate understanding and retention. Participants will spend 80% of the time in individual or group activities which allow them to learn, develop and practice. A workbook is used to facilitate the programme.

Structured Experiential Learning Exercises, Super Learning Environment, Role Plays, Games & Simulation & Performance Coaching, Team Presentations.

Content Day 1

Introductions

Challenges _ Expectation from this program

What makes an engaging presentation

Focusing on the needs of the audience’s left and right brain

Emotional persuasion using empathy

Triggering desired audience emotions through power words that create positive mental pictures.

Incorporating audience interaction for engagement.

Handling Questions and Feedback

Active Listening, Probing, Empathy, Articulation

Managing challenging questions and unexpected feedback.

The L.I.S.T process (Acknowledge, empathize, probe, recommend, convince)

Engaging the audience through directing their emotional state

Example case – A low impact dull presentation

Example case – A dynamic, interesting & winning presentation

Presentation demo by the trainer

Developing an engaging voice

Communicating without body language through phone

Articulate speaking

Mastering and Applying Voice Characteristics

Tone, Pitch, Rate of Speech and Volume

Activity – Voice practice through trainer facilitation to develop expertise in expressing emotions such as happiness, sadness, concern, worry, excitement, sense of urgency and more.

Body language for engaging presentations

Commanding an executive presence

How to effectively use body language when presenting

Body Language Mistakes To Avoid During Presentations

Screen Positioning for online presentations

Content Day 2

Review of the existing presentation deck

Identifying 2 slides (as demo) to make the example desirable using emotional and technical verbal descriptions. Hence preparing for the next step.

Creating impactful Presentation Slides

Engaging the audience’s left & right brain

Creative usage of images and text to captivate the audience

Slide animations and transitions for visual engagement

Group activity – Selecting and inserting images that are relevant to the audience’s pain points and desires / needs.

Participants develop actual work slides with the trainer’s guidance

Crafting compelling messages

Developing impactful presentation dialogue

Impactful opening statement and explaining the presentation agenda

Probing questions to identify presentation direction

Persuasive & descriptive statements for each point in the agenda

Strategizing moments to launch animation or to move to next slide

Group activity – Participants develop a new compelling dialogue

Trainer reviews each group’s developed dialogue

Dialogue shall be selected or strategized with the trainer’s guidance

Group activity – Practicing the final dialogue that supports the presentation slides

Group activity – 2-Minutes Presentations

Participants design presentations that will last 2 minutes. During those 2 minutes, the participants must cover The voice and body language I Power words that create pictures to engage us I Listening, probing, empathy, articulation I At least one dynamic slide for positive visualization. The number of presentations depends upon available time left in the day.