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Developing Key Skills
The foundation presentation skills course supports your team to become clear, confident and concise communicators in all areas of their role.
It's the ideal way to ensure that your team members have the skills they need to design and deliver effective presentations in the workplace.
What does this course cover?
The foundation presentation skills course introduces your team to key techniques for crafting and delivering effective presentations. Each session is tailored to the exact need of the learners.
Generally, this course will cover:
- Setting goals and understanding our audiences
- Structuring presentations to ensure clarity
- Managing nerves and delivering with confidence
- Using our voice, body and slides to enhance our message and effectiveness
Who is the foundation presentation skills course for?
This course is designed to introduce and embed key skills, and build confidence too.
It's ideal for both junior teams and more experienced professionals that have not previously had the chance to build their skills and confidence when speaking. As part of this course we will research the participants' needs and tailor the content to match them exactly.
Don't worry if you have a mixed group - many of the best foundation presentation skills sessions that we have run have included a mix of both presentation newbies and veterans - everyone ends up learning something new, together!
Thank you so much for the incredibly valuable and inspiring training. It’s rare to attend a session that is both so fully engaging and directly relevant, but yesterday truly was!
Alice Edwards, The Royal College of Music
The course content - in depth
Here's a little more about what exactly the Foundation Presentation Skills course includes:
Getting started
- Warm-up exercise and introductions
Modelling success
- What makes a great speaker? The good, the bad and the ugly
Perfect preparation
- Identifying presentation goals
- Understanding and adapting to our audiences' needs
- Mastering key messages
Structuring to succeed
- Writing attention-grabbing openings
- Structuring to support understanding
- Conclusions that will be remembered
Preparing to stand up and speak
- How to deal with nerves when public speaking
- What does a confident speaker look like?
- Becoming that confident speaker
Delivery - how we say it
- Voice - how to use it and why
- Your body - how can it contribute positively to your message
The 'learning by doing' bit
- Create and deliver a short presentation
- Evaluation and feedback from everyone
What else is included within the Foundation Presentation Skills training?
The most effective learning experiences are more than just a single day of training for your team. We support you with lots of added value to make the learning as effective as possible. This is all included within the standard rate for a day of training.
Research
We complete online surveys, interviews and more to understand the needs, confidence and existing skills of all of your learners.
Tailoring
Using the research findings, we create unique training content and activities to help them develop these skills in the most engaging way.
Coaching
Every participant receives a 30 minute one-to-one presentation skills coaching session in the weeks and months that follow the initial training.
Video analysis
Everyone learner is filmed delivering at least one presentation or speech. After the session, they will receive feedback directly from Rich and a copy of their video.
A library of resources
All learners have access to all of the materials, worksheets and content from our sessions PLUS infographics, videos and articles on all areas of public speaking.
Embedding the learning
In the weeks and months after the training we will measure and report upon the learners' understanding of the topics covered, and how they have applied them to their day-to-day roles.
Discover more about your public speaking trainer
Rich Watts is a public speaking consultant and trainer, a past winner of the UK Business Speaker of the Year, a JCI UK Public Speaking Champion and most importantly, loves helping others to develop into outstanding public speakers.
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We work with a wide-range of organisations across the UK. Like you, they are all forward-thinking and keen to boost the communication skills of their team.
What other courses and topics do we cover?
We cover public speaking and presentation skills from beginning to end. From junior to senior. From good to great.
Explore the courses below to discover areas that we have developed in-house public speaking training solutions for in the past.
