Effective Presentations
In this course, you’ll have the opportunity to examine the key elements of successful presentations and to practice relevant skills. These important concepts and tools will help enable you to create and deliver your own effective presentations, both in-person and virtually.
Description
The ability to deliver presentations is vital to achieving advancement for yourself and for your ideas. Few skills in life will contribute to your success as much as presentation skills. Without a dynamic and coherent presentation, even stellar ideas can fail to convince your audience. The pathway you’ll follow in this course will help you organize ideas into coherent and convincing oral presentations by using both visual aids and recommended public-speaking techniques to strengthen your delivery.
In this course, you’ll have an introduction to the concepts behind creating an effective presentation and organizing ideas in a cohesive way to get your intended message across to your audience. You’ll use a variety of tools and approaches to prepare to deliver different types of presentations in your work environment. These skills will be immediately applicable in a real-world setting, as you return to your workplace to create and deliver complete presentations from start to finish.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Defining Presentation Effectiveness
- Topic A: Identify Qualities of Effective Presentations
- Topic B: Evaluate Yourself as a Presenter
Lesson 2: Planning Presentations
- Topic A: Analyze the Audience
- Topic B: Establish Your Presentation's Objectives
Lesson 3: Designing the Presentation
- Topic A: Create the Presentation Structure
- Topic B: Organize the Presentation Body
- Topic C: Write the Conclusion First
- Topic D: Write the Introduction
Lesson 4: Developing the Presentation Body
- Topic A: Select Evidence
- Topic B: Write the Presentation Body
- Topic C: Create Visuals
Lesson 5: Creating Supporting Materials
- Topic A: Create a Slide Deck
- Topic B: Create Speaker Aids
- Topic C: Create Audience Handouts
Lesson 6: Preparing for Your Presentation
- Topic A: Rehearse the Presentation
- Topic B: Plan Event Logistics
Lesson 7: Delivering Presentations
- Topic A: Connect with Your Audience
- Topic B: Present Powerfully
- Topic C: Utilize a Slide Deck Effectively
Lesson 8: Conducting a Question-and-Answer Session
- Topic A: Answer Questions
- Topic B: Handle Challenging Questions
Lesson 9: Presenting in Common Business Scenario
- Topic A: Plan and Deliver a Virtual Presentation
- Topic B: Plan and Deliver Group Presentations
Prerequisites
To ensure your success, you will need to have experience writing in a professional context and creating presentations using Microsoft Office PowerPoint.