Why You Need Good Presentation Skills?
Effective presentation skills are a key differentiating business and social skill today. Whether you are pitching to raise capital, speaking to an entire company, doing a product launch, leading a team, teaching a class, selling a property or even delivering a sermon, you need good presentation skills. Your ability to convince and persuade others to buy into your ideas will differentiate you from others and sets you apart. How many times have you fallen asleep listening to a boring presentation? In the marketplace of competing ideas, effective presentation is key.
In summary, learning how to present effectively will enable you to:
- Get buy-in for your ideas
- Win or sway audiences with your persuasion
- Stand out from the crowd and become more prominent in your company/marketplace
- Get things done when you can persuade the stakeholders
- In today’s digital age, most people lose that touch with public speaking skills but you need not be like the rest!
Who Needs Good Presentation Skills
Effective presentation skills are not just for people in the corporate world but for anyone who needs to persuade others to accept your idea. For example, you may need to speak to corporate leaders to raise funds for the poor or to government agencies about climate change or health initiatives to prevent diseases like the coronavirus.
- Entrepreneurs
- Corporate leaders
- Salesmen
- Politicians
- Lecturers and teachers
- Pastors
- Public speakers
Impactful Business Presentation Course Outline
A great presentation just does not magically happen. It is well planned and rehearsed. To become an effective presenter you need to learn a set of presentation skills. Master the key impactful presentations skills in 2 days (note that this workshop has been expanded from the previous 1 day Effective Presentation Skills Training Workshop) with Master Trainer Tan Teck Kim.
Upon completion of this course, participants will have actionable strategies for leveraging strengths and addressing challenges when delivering presentations.
Effective Presentation Course Benefits
- Learn powerful ways to prepare for a presentation
- Supercharge your presentations with learnt delivery skills
- Discover how to connect with your audience
- Learn how to create interesting introductions to wow your audience
- Learn effective self-coaching techniques to overcome fears and self doubts
- Discover the breakthroughs in eye contact, tonality and body movements
- Learn strategies to help your audience remember your message
- Find out ways to overcome common pitfalls and why others succeed
- Communicate in ways to CONNECT with your audience.
Effective Presentation Skills FAQ
That depends on your selection criteria. For eg, most courses will train you on presentation structure and some basic body language skills (eg gestures). Most courses focus on helping you present (speak) but we help you to think of yourself of putting up a ‘show’. If you are looking to becoming more confident, more interesting as a speaker demonstrating executive presence, then our Impactful Presentations workshop – Speak So That Others Listen – is the right one for you. Don’t just INFORM but seek to INSPIRE your audience!
No, but we share with participants a number of useful and practical tips on your visual aids, including powerpoint. We can also customise for you based on your needs, if you are seeking in-house courses.
All our publicly run as well as in house courses are conducted in English. However, the Presentations Skills Training is not a course on English, but a Presentation Course conducted in English. We have separate English coaches for personal coaching.
The course covers many areas in Business Presentations as well as Public Speaking.
What differentiates us is our experienced trainer who has both practitioner experience in presenting to large and small crowds. Our trainer Tan Teck Kim is also a certified MBTI trainer and many psychological profiling tools. Some presentation techniques incorporate psychology and persuasion so that we train speakers to move from INFORMING to INSPIRING speeches. Tan Teck Kim is a public speaking coach who has provided Public Speaking Courses for Adults, Public Speaking Course for Students, and has coached CEOs, senior managers, professionals and people from all walks of life.
(note : this is not a Toastmasters Singapore course, and 36 HR Training Consultancy is not associated with the Public Speaking Academy)
Our Impactful Presentations workshop covers techniques which help participants to develop a vocal identity, through the use of pauses, pacing, projection and a variety of exercises. It is however not a course on diction. For managers who need to improve on diction/pronunciation, contact us for personal coaching.
For our publicly run Presentations Training courses in Singapore (also known as Impactful Business Presentations) – we have between 6-15 participants – we will cap at max 15 to ensure training effectiveness. For customised in house Presentation Skills training courses – we recommend up to 16 max.
At the moment, many of our participants are from corporations and institutions and hence we are not supported by skills future grant. We offer attractive training discounts to corporates who have more than 10 participant
Clients are spoilt for choices when it comes to training but it makes the decision much harder and slower. Evaluate us based on our experience in real life speaking situations, in training and coaching experience, and what we can customise for you because we recognise that every client is unique. We have :
- more than 10 years of training and coaching experience
- more than 100 training videos for different training scenarios
- more than 50 training exercises including vocal, eye contact and body language techniques
- more than 25 Presentation modules – which you can choose from to customise
- we are training in certain psychological and behavioural techniques which you can incorporate in influencing your audience (not just informing your audience)
- we focus on not just infoming but connecting with your audience.
- a toolkit for you to warmup before every presentation, and many more.