Effective presentation skills have become an essential professional competency for achieving key goals and influencing the decisions and actions of your audience. Yet many surveys place delivering presentations at or near the top of most feared activities. This course provides the skills and methods needed to comfortably plan, structure, and deliver business presentations for productive outcomes.
Consider how to change your presentation for culturally diverse audiences, important stakeholders, and different delivery formats. Learn how to overcome internal inhibitors, such as nervousness, and mitigate external inhibitors, such as room layout, equipment, temperature, so that you can present with focus and confidence.
Who Should Attend?
- IT professionals who need to present to stakeholders
- Business professionals who present to various decision makers: IT project managers, project managers, coordinators, business analysts, system analysts, IT project staff (developer and designer)
- Professionals who need to deliver business-outcome-based presentations
- Professionals transferring to a role in which they need to create and present presentations more often
- Professionals transitioning from an individual type of role to a team lead type of role
- Professionals who want to improve general presentation skills (work-related)
- Professionals who want to increase their confidence in presenting
- Professionals who don’t get the results that they expect from presentations
- Professionals who don’t know how to package all the elements together
