Introduction
The ability to deliver a memorable and engaging presentation with confidence and authority are vital business skills. This highly practical two-day workshop is designed to teach you the skill of presenting rather than showing you the knowledge behind it. With bite-size exercises of learning how to structure, build compelling presentations with clear objectives, your presenting ability will improve as you learn to transform your own presentation into a riveting visual story that excites, enabling you to deliver your new impressive presentation much more comfortably & convincingly.
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes - Know the importance of audience analysis
- Learn how to present key ideas clearly, concisely & convincingly
- Bring dry material to life
- Develop more confident body language, so that tone of voice (volume, pace, emphasis), facial expression & hand gesture match your message
- Consciously create the impact you choose
- Bring an authentic approach to every presentation that persuades
Course Outline
Course Outline - Presentation benchmark: Participants will present their presentation for 3-4 mins and the facilitator will run through the presentation video recording with each participant.
- Common hiccups and blunders speakers/presenters make
- Presenting with IMPACT
- Developing the presentation content
- Audience adaptation: Think audience
- Clear objectives
- Exercise: Revisiting our target audience and presentation objectives
- Structuring your presentation
- Having a clear message with the three “Whats?”
- Exercise: Re-organizing and condensing the presentation content
- Use of powerful language, story-telling, and repetition
- Exercise: Story-telling of dry data
- Passionate delivery
- Your professional presence as the best visual aid
- Overcoming nervousness
- Skill practice
- Connecting with the audience
- Good eye contact
- Standing tall, walk the stage/room
- Positive body language
- Projecting your voice with power, pacing and effective use of pause
- Skills practice
- Slide design: Simple, legible, and engaging
- Exercise
- Handling challenging situations: When things go wrong
- Skill practice: Role play
Max class size: 12 pax
Note: Each participant must come prepared with one set of 3-5 min presentation.
The Trainer
Trainer's ProfileSamantha Sim brings with her a solid background in modern learning concepts and techniques. She has over 25 years of experience working with business professionals, corporations and government agencies in various industries. Her strengths lie in customer service, teambuilding, personal effectiveness and image management. She has partnered corporations like Raffles Hotel, Banyan Tree, Frasers Hospitality, IATA, SIA, Far East Organization, Aspire, Bosch, Unilever, Union Bank, Starbucks, Performance Motors, BMS (China), Union Bank (Manila), International SOS, Russian Railways, Pat’s School House, PSA, Raffles Medical Group, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singhealth, ST Engineering group and others, effectively improving their performance in targeted areas ST Engineering group, Busybees Asia, Seager Inc. For all her workshops, she prides herself in customizing the learning activities to unlock potential & grow learning individuals. She knows there is a big difference between training and learning: Learning requires repeat practice, spread over time, to transform the learned concepts into skills that enable the learner to use the new knowledge smoothly in one’s own work environment. With that strong belief, she often injects on-the-spot practical, relevant activities that not only makes learning fun and exciting but also for easy transfer of learning. In her previous appointment with Singapore Airlines (SIA), Samantha was responsible for professionalizing a team of 800 cabin crew members committed to SIA Cabin Crew Training Vision of developing service professionals of distinction within a learning culture. Drawing upon 10 years of multicultural experience in the airline industry, she continues to innovate and improve, offering training & consultancy services. She has helped many organizations facilitate operational projects, collaborating with internal key stakeholders to assess & fine-tune workflow efficiency to trouble-shoot potential issues and provide feasible solutions and/or recommend targeted improvements. Her years of consultancy and training experiences have provided her with an unusual sensitivity to the learning needs of different levels of working professionals in various industries. Her passion in learning also leads her to build bite-size concept videos & story-telling situational scenarios that incorporate her participants’ work situations to further captivate her online learners. And she runs selective workshops in Mandarin.
