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Presentation Training

Presentation Training is provided across the United States and Canada. Participants have three options to attend and participate in our presentation training. Presentations are delivered via public open enrollment courses in all major metropolitan areas and are also available to be delivered on-site via private courses. The 3rd option is to attend Online Webinar Presentations Skills Workshops. Our face to face Presentation Training can be provided as off-the-shelf sessions, ready to be delivered to a diverse audience or can be customized to provide a tailored and personalized presentation training approach based on client needs. All presentations courses are limited to a maximum of twelve participants so as to increase presentation course effectiveness and provide the individual level of face to face or online coaching and interaction that is associated with the Presentations Training Skills Center.

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What you know and what your presentation is about is only half the story; the other half is you, and if you yourself are not properly prepared, no amount of brilliant material will make your presentation work.

Of course it's important to know what you want to say, to know your topic inside out and to have worked out the best way to organize your information so that your audience can easily understand it and, let's hope, enjoy it.

But it's equally important to prepare yourself for the presentation, and not just in terms of learning your speech off by heart! To give your presentation real punch, it's crucial that you yourself are at the optimum state of readiness, and you can do this by following these simple steps:

1. Address your nerves. Everyone experiences some kind of nervous response to public speaking and presentations. It's the fight/flight response to perceived threat - and it's hardly surprising if you feel threatened if you're in a room full of people all looking at you expectantly. Recognize how your nervousness exhibits itself and find a way of coping with it. Deep rhythmic breathing will help all kinds of nervousness but if you know, for example, that when you're very nervous you trip over your words, review your notes and weed out any awkward sentence constructions or unintended tongue twisters. If your mind tends to go intermittently blank, use prompt cards, one-word reminders on postcards, to help you get back on track. If you freeze to the spot, use standard presentation resources like the whiteboard, flipchart, a tumbler and bottle of water on a table, and a projector as props which you can position to encourage yourself to move around. Think about what nervousness really means to you and work on ways of addressing it. By taking control in this way, your confidence will grow in leaps and bounds!

2. Always be early. Not just punctual: early! Murphy's law says that if something can go wrong it probably will, so give yourself more than enough time to accommodate the diversion en route, the broken projector, the lost key, the wrong software - all the potential problems that don't have to mean your presentation is ruined, so long as you have enough time to address them. If nothing goes wrong, great, use the time in hand to practice your nervousness solutions, and run through your notes one more time.

3. Look great. You don't have to have a new outfit for your presentation but you do need to be sure that whatever you plan to wear is clean, uncreased, and without stray threads, missing buttons or stains. Shoes should be clean and polished and, if need be, properly repaired: there's a reason people describe poor sad characters as "down-at-heel"! If you can afford a trip to the barber's or hairdressers, great, but if not make sure your hair is clean and tidy. Ask a friend or family member to check you over and act on what they tell you.

4. For your final rehearsals or presentation run-throughs, practice shifting your focus outwards rather than inwards. Think about what your audience will be experiencing during your presentation; try to put yourself in their shoes and feel how they might feel. Focusing outward is a powerful way to overcome your nerves and give your presentation a relaxed, confident flow. Start doing it while you're rehearsing.

5. Finally, visualize yourself delivering your presentation wonderfully well; see yourself enjoying the experience; see your audience responding positively and generously; see yourself enjoying spontaneous applause and cheers at the end. Sportsmen and women use visualization all the time - take a tip from them when preparing for your next presentation.

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