New Horizons Computer Learning Center
410-597-9722

Effective Presentations

Course Length: 1 Day

Overview:
Without a dynamic and coherent presentation, even stellar ideas can fail to convince your audience. In this course, you will learn active listening skills to facilitate the exchange of ideas in meetings and presentations. You will also organize your ideas to create coherent and convincing oral presentations, while also utilizing available visual aids and using public-speaking techniques to strengthen your delivery. You will also prepare strategies for business meetings and learn to conduct meetings efficiently.

Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Identify and use effective presentations, use different types of presentations, plan a presentation, and determine primary and secondary objectives
• Analyze the audience, determine the supporting material, and learn about different types of supporting material
• Build a presentation, develop an introduction, capture the audience attention, organize the body of the presentation, use transitions, and conclude the presentation
• Incorporate visual aids, understand the types of visual aids, display, and create visual aids
• Use a presentation process, prepare before speaking in a presentation, deliver a presentation, and use nonverbal communication aids
• Handle the questions effectively, approach the question-and-answer session, responsibilities during a session, and handle challenging questions
• Persuade a presentation, understand the goals of persuasion, organize a persuasive presentation, and use the methods of persuasion

Course Content

Lesson 1: Fundamentals of Presentation

• Effective presentations
• Planning a presentation

Lesson 2: Audience Analysis and Supporting Material

• Audience analysis
• Supporting materials

Lesson 3: Building Presentations

• Build presentations
• Develop an introduction
• Organize the body of the presentation
• Effective conclusion

Lesson 4: Presentation Mechanics

• Visual aids
• Understand visual aids

Lesson 5: Presentation Process

• Extemporaneous speaking
• Preparation for speaking
• Deliver a presentation
• Nonverbal communication

Lesson 6: Question-and-Answer Session

• Handle questions effectively
• Handle challenging questions

Lesson 7: Fundamentals of Persuasion

• Understand persuasion
• Organize a persuasive presentation
• Methods of persuasion

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