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Making an Ally of Your Audience

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This session has filmed segments for on-the-spot debriefings and future reference.

Highlights

Connecting with your audience is essential to the success of your presentation

Professional tips and practice will significantly affect your effectiveness

Objectives
  • Appreciation for the audience and how it determines a presentation's reception
  • Basic proficiency for giving a skillful presentation to an audience
Learning Tools
  • Examination and discussion of sample presentations
  • Live preparation and collaboration
  • Self-examination, peer/trainer feedback
  • Filmed sessions for on-the-spot debriefing and later reference
Take-aways
  • Awareness of how presentation skills can significantly impact one's career
  • Tools and checklist for future use
Prerequisite

Seminar Essentials

Connecting with your audience

  • Investing effort in developing captivating introductions and conclusions
  • Mastering your body language
  • Pacing and your sense of timing

Staying on course when you’re in the spotlight

  • Structuring your presentation around a central message
  • Using relevant support
  • The power of including anecdotes to connect
  • How to make your language persuasive
  • Keeping it simple: less is more
  • Using your visual support to stay on topic

Getting the most out of practicing

  • Weighing the importance of the presentation and its outcome
  • The importance of practicing live
  • Getting feedback from trusted sources
  • Things to consider when you present with a team