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Sales Presentation Skills
Developing Key Skills
This foundation presentation skills course is designed to develop strong communication skills in junior staff, graduates and those with limited public speaking experience.
What will you learn on the foundation presentation skills course?
Upon completing this foundation presentation skills course, attendees will understand and be able to:
- Write and format presentations designed to meet a specific objective - to inform, inspire or persuade
- Deliver presentations confidently, clearly and with purpose
- Produce effective Powerpoint presentation slides
- Develop strategies for managing any nerves that they may encounter when speaking.
Foundation Presentation Skills - Course Agenda
Getting started
- Warm-up and the complete history of public speaking in four minutes
Our thoughts and views
- What makes a great speaker? The good, the bad and the ugly
- What makes us nervous when we speak?
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
What we say
- What is a good speech structure?
- How to define your core message
- Start on the right foot - opening a speech
- How to write that bit in the middle
- Writing for your audience - what do they want to hear?
- The final thought - closing a speech effectively
How we say it
- Voice - how to use it and why
- Your body - what does it say and what does it add to your message?
The 'learning by doing' bit
- Create and deliver a short presentation
- Evaluation and feedback from everyone
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.
What else is included within the Foundation Presentation Skills training?
Pre-session research with all participants
Ahead of developing your session, together we will complete a full research project to understand the needs, confidence and existing skills of all of your learners. Using online surveys, interviews and more we will get a full picture of the challenge and the goal.
Tailoring all course content to your goals
The research phase informs us about exactly the topics and techniques that our learners require. We then create unique training content and activities to help them develop these skills in the most engaging way. Every session that is developed will be packed full of examples, lessons and activities that are relevant to your sector and business.
A follow-up coaching for everyone
Learners always finish a training sessions engaged and inspired by session, but it’s easy to let new learnings slip once they are back at their desks. With this in mind, every participant is offered a 30 minute one-to-one presentation skills coaching session in the weeks and months that follow the initial training. This follow-up helps everyone to embed their new skills, ask questions and refine their technique after using their new learnings in the ‘real world’.
Video analysis of all participants
Everyone that takes part in a Rich Public Speaking training course is filmed delivering at least one presentation or speech. On the day they will receive feedback from their peers. After the session, they will receive feedback directly from Rich and a copy of their video. This feedback, and viewing themselves speak on camera is the most effective way to develop their presentation skills.
Access to a full library of resources and support
All learners will have access to all of the materials, worksheets and content from our sessions within the Rich Public Speaking online library. On top of this, they will also be able to export and download further infographics, videos and articles on all areas of public speaking everything from Persuasive Presentations to crafting Super Soundbites, and lots in-between!
Monthly learning emails
For those learners that like to read, absorb and consider ideas via their inbox, all participants receive a series of monthly emails after the course. Each email focuses on a. Different technique that we discovered during the initial session. The email provides a timely reminder about the topic, motivation to use it in practice and guidance on how use the technique effectively.
