Presenting with PEP – Stand and deliver with confidence

This 2-day program introduces participants to the basics of being in front of audiences. This program deals with impact, nerves, structure and style.

Presenting With PEP

Presentations have become the de-facto business communication tool. Companies are started, products are launched, and climate systems are saved – possibly based on the quality of presentations.

Out of the millions of presentations delivered each day, only a small percentage are delivered well.

Whether you are a CEO, senior manager, or educator, you create presentations that have incredibly high stakes. Stock value, sales revenue, career promotions and behaviour changes are all influenced by presentations every day. And yet, very little is done to prepare people to deliver meaningful presentations that get the message across.

Our presentations skills sessions include:

Your positive connection to the topic
Creating a positive relationship between you and the audience
Building desire and motivation in your topic
Incorporating stories into your presentations
Developing the ability to link anything to anything
Working with Visuals
Working with PowerPoint

Course Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

Use the appropriate presentation style to suit the content, audience and environment.
Take “dry” or “boring” content and bring it to life using stories
Work effectively with a variety of visual aids (eg slides, flipcharts, props, notes)
Have practiced using a structure that has been proven to achieve results
Develop a personal toolkit of techniques to be applied in appropriate contexts
Have shifted their perspective to designing sessions based on the purpose of the presentation and the audience involved
Have received personal feedback on their own style to enable improvement
Use a range of communication styles to engage the audience
Demonstrate the ability to review and reflect on a presentation with a view towards improvement

Prework:

Participants are asked to bring along a 5-7 minute presentation that is typical of what they would normally present in their work, or if they don’t typically present, something that they can present to set a benchmark and provide content to apply the theoretical sections to.

We have the following dates for your diary:

Melbourne: Beyond Cert IV 27-29 Oct 2010 (3 Days) $1995.00

Earlybird (book and pay by 15 Sep) $1495.00

A Modern Day Map Book

I have been reading (or rather looking at) a new book that landed on my shelf entitled The Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless. It's sub title is "A colourful guide to the world's most consequential trivia".

He has visually represented in interesting and cool ways things like dangers of death, varieties of romantic relationships and when condiments go bad. Some of the more "serious" topics include global warming, who really runs the world and the media jungle.

To quote from the intro " Swamped by information, I was searching for a better way to see it all and understand it. Why not visually?

Why not indeed.

As a graphic recorder, I found the experience of reading this book both enlightening and entertaining (my favourite kind of read), but what was more exciting, is that it was immediately useful!

I had the opportunity to be the graphic recorder at a recent Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Summit. Very large event, over 100 people and we produced some really good (and cool) work.

One of the processes involved a "card sort" after which I was handed over 200 index cards, sorted, and asked to represent the result visually. I instantly panicked and thought "holy crap!"... and then it hit me like the proverbial sledge hammer...."Visual Miscellaneum !!".

The result follows. I have removed some of the information that would give away the client name, however the chart makes the point. I have created people standing in a line, and the size of the person represents the frequency of the idea shown on their t-shirt, or on a sign. I was pretty chuffed with the result, but better, the client loved it!

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