WeCWI Enterprise: Be a Successful Presenter

  Image credit to Brian Tracy International

Course Details:

• 8 sessions
• 2 hours per session
• 1 topic per session
• Blended learning mode
• Task-based assessments

Course Structure:

Topic 1: Prepare

• Presentation skills:
• Plan
• Practise
• Deal with nerves
• Language skills:
• Get ready your equipment
• Arrange your seats
• Give feedback
• Task:
• Analyse your needs

Topic 2: Structure

• Presentation skills:
• Use the core structure
• Guide your audience
• Language skills:
• Structure a presentation
• Announce the beginnings and end of a message
• Signpost
• Task:
• Give a 5-minute presentation

Topic 3: Introduce

• Presentation skills:
• Understand your audience
• The ABCD model
• Language skills:
• Introduce your presentation
• Introduce yourself and establish credibility
• State your aims and intentions
• Direct your audience about questions
• Getting attention with pauses
• Task:
• Prepare and give an introduction to a presentation

Topic 4: Deliver

• Presentation skills:
• Communicate your main messages
• Structure your message with PEEP
• Language skills:
• Structure your message
• Introduce your point
• Emphasise your point
• Recap and return to your point
• Task:
• Prepare and give one message from a presentation using PEEP

Topic 5: Use Visual Aids

• Presentation skills:
• Design visual aids
• Use visual aids successfully
• Language skills:
• Describe and refer to visual aids
• Describe cause and consequence
• Talk about trends and figures
• Task:
• Create visual aids and practise presenting them

Topic 6: Conclude

• Presentation skills:
• Make a final impression
• End effectively
• Language skills:
• Announce the end of your presentation
• Recap and remind
• Ask your audience to take action
• Invite questions and thank
• Task:
• Prepare and give a conclusion to a presentation

Topic 7: Handle Questions

• Presentation skills:
• Handle questions effectively
• Use the LEVER model
• Language skills:
• Conclude your presentation
• Deal with questions
• Manage questions and clarify meaning
• Soften disagreements and opinions
• Task:
• Present an idea for a new product and answer questions about it

Topic 8: Bring It Alive!

• Presentation skills:
• Bring a presentation to life
• Turn a good presentation into a great presentation
• Language skills:
• Tell stories and report past events
• Make comparisons and analogies
• Rhetorical questions
• Making words 'bigger'
• Task:
• Make changes to an existing presentation to 'bring it alive'
• Give a full presentation

Resource links:

• TED Talks: Most popular talks of all time
• Speech sample

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