Six-part Presentation Skills
Course
As well as a standard version, there are also highly customized versions of this course for accountants,
engineers and lawyers. Programs for other specific professionals may be created on request.
This program consists of six weekly sessions, each lasting two-and-a-half hours, and each building on the
content of the previous sessions.
Participants MUST be actively making presentations in the course of their jobs. As pre-work for the course, they
will choose and consider a specific presentation to use as their course-long project.
The first session includes a self-assessment and discussion of the particular presenting challenges with which
participants would like help. Participants will be videotaped several times throughout the course and will present
their complete 5-minute presentations on camera in Session 6.
Course Content
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Session 1: The Opening
• Presentation needs
and
experience
• Establish objectives for
their presentations
• Importance of openings
• Several types of opening
• Write openings
• Practise/present openings
on camera
• Homework: practise openings
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Session 2: The Body
• Revisit openings, discuss
• Formulas for the body
• What to include
• Wrote outlines
• Short on-camera exercise
• Transitions
• Homework: finalize body content
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Session 3: Body Delivery
• Discuss
planned formats
• Video body delivery of all
• Discuss videos
• Homework: revise body
of presentation based on
feedback |
Session 4: Visual Aids
• Laptops required for
this session
• types of visuals and
their purposes
• PowerPoint: the good, the
bad and the ugly
• Work on their visual aids
• Homework: create visuals
for their presentations |
Session 5: The Close
• Review their visual aids
• Importance of the close
• Types of close
• Write closes
• Present closes and discuss
• Homework: prepare entire
presentations for next session |
Session 6: The Show
• Questions and answers
• Off-camera practice
• Deliver 5-minute presentations
on camera
• Review and discuss
• Assessment/evaluation
• Closing message
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Follow Up
- Each participant receives a DVD containing all the final
presentations and group feedback discussions
- Each participant receives email messages and/or individual phone calls from Helen four
times over next eight months to review progress and answer questions
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Group Size
- Due to hands-on nature of the presentation, group size is
limited to eight participants
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