Becoming good at presentations requires giving presentations! Here is a sample of slides we cover in Presentations Training:

1. Participants start the class giving a mini-presentation about personal experience or area of expertise with only 3-5 minutes of preparation time. I have used my iPad to record for post-evaluation later in class.
2. Participants watch presentations given by selected well-known public speakers and evaluate what they enjoy and what could be improved.
3. Participants are introduced to class objectives: 1) How to come up with a thesis, 2) Organize their thoughts, 3) Prepare materials and 4) We cover body language and managing interaction with the audience. Participants also give mini-presentations using new strategies.
4. Participants bring all of these new tools together to prepare individual or group presentations and are evaluated by class members in teams.

I’ve been coaching presentation skills even longer than customer service when I started my career teaching overseas 20 years ago becoming a Business English Communication Consultant in Tokyo, Japan for 3 of the leading corporate training companies.

This class gives participants an introduction and refresher course on how to use their own creativity and expertise while understanding how practice makes us ‘perfect.’

Using video for self-evaluation is helpful yet participants are just as helped by multiple opportunities to practice, apply new skills and participate in helpful evaluations on how and where their communication gets off track or even how nervous habits prevent their freedom to move, interact and articulate clearly what they want to say.

Contact me regarding any Presentation Skills tips or for how I can help your professionals discover how to win and connect with many audiences in the US and overseas.