Public Speaking: Presentation Survival School
A great presenter has two notable qualities: appropriate skills and personal confidence. Confidence comes from knowing what you want to say and being comfortable with your communication skills. In this two-day workshop, participants will master the skills that will make them a better speaker and presenter.
Learning Objectives
This workshop will teach participants how to:
- Establish rapport with your audience
- Learn techniques to reduce nervousness and fear
- Understand your strengths as a presenter and how to appeal to different types of people
- Recognize how visual aids can create impact and attention
- Develop techniques to create a professional presence
- Learn some different ways to prepare and organize information
- Prepare, practice, and deliver a short presentation
Communication
To begin, participants will explore key communication skills, including how to start and end a conversation.
Stop! Check Your Mouth!
Next, participants will learn about characteristics that can make or break the audience’s impression of a speaker, including volume, clichés, slang, diction, jargon, and tact (or lack thereof).
What’s Your Type? How About Mine?
During this session, participants will explore their personality type and what it means for them as a speaker.
Positive Self-Talk
In this session, participants will learn how to build their self-confidence – a key skill for any public speaker.
Trust
This session will explore the idea of rapport and how it can help build relationships.
Maximizing the Most of Meetings
Meetings are a central part of communication and cooperation within any organization. This session will give participants some ways to successfully prepare for and present at any meeting.
Body Language
During this session, participants will learn some ways to make sure their body language is sending the right message.
Sticky Situations
This session will give participants some tools to deal with uncomfortable situations.
I Can Just Send an E-mail, Right?
Next, participants will explore the value of oral presentations.
Overcoming Nervousness
To conclude the first day, we will look at some suggestions for handling nervousness.
The Five S’s
To begin the second day, participants will learn about the five S’s of a good presentation: significance, scenario, solutions, sequelae, and suggestions.
Start Writing!
This session will focus on the nuts and bolts of creating your presentation.
Audience Profile
Next, participants will look the value of audience profiles.
Your Speaking Voice
This session will look at the eight key parts of a presenter’s message.
Add Punch to Your Presentation
There are many types of visual aids. We will provide an overview of, and tips for, the most common visuals during this session.
Your Presentation
To wrap things up, participants will prepare and present a short presentation. Participants will evaluate each other and provide constructive feedback.
Your Satisfaction
is our Success!
OUR GUARANTEE:
Our high impact and interactive training programs have been skillfully researched and are designed to provide each participant with powerful, specific tools and knowledge. If any participant feels that they did not receive great value, effective tools or skills, they are asked to contact our customer satisfaction department. We will honour a 70% refund to the individual who has expressed (in writing) the reason for their dissatisfaction. We believe that if you have not received what we have promised to deliver, then you are entitled to a refund.
SELF-PACED
ONLINE LEARNING
Learning at your convenience.
If time, geography, or just about any thing else is standing between you and the learning your want or need; our Online Learning may be the perfect solution. Designed for convenience and impact, we have broken down our training topics into simple sessions and sections that provide you the opportunity to start, stop and resume your learning -from anywhere, at any time. Now you get to decide where and when the right time is to expand your knowledge and skills.
$279.00 USD
IN-PERSON
LIVE TRAINING
Delivering a traditional training experience -in-person or virtually!
Hands down Live Training is our most popular and requested format, whether on-site, virtual classroom, or as a lunch & learn. Participants are engaged in an interactive experience with the trainer and other participating team members. Live training sessions range from a single day to a multi-part or ongoing training series. Whichever your choice, Mainstream will craft and tailor your experience to ensure it is specific, relevant and unique to your team.Something you certainly will Not receive is a pre-formatted, pre-scripted, one-size fits all training experience. We know that every team has unique learning needs and situations, therefore your training should be too. Our free program customization service aims to meet unique or custom training needs.Why settle for a program that gives you almost what you need; our team thrives on giving you Exactly what you need.
In Person Training
The traditional classroom style of training remains our Most Popular and Most Requested format. On-site training provides participants with an in-person facilitator who will work directly with the team, whether for a single training session or a training series. The Mainstream team will craft and tailor your experience to ensure that your training session is specific, relevant and unique to your audience while meeting your learning objectives. Why settle for ‘pre-formatted, pre-scripted, one-size fits all’ training programs, when our team is able to customize a program that is just right for you? We know that every team has unique learning needs, situations and that they come from a variety of industries, each having unique customer needs and demands. Our programs can be scaled to accommodate time restraints, unique learning needs and even industry or company nuances and barriers.
Don’t settle for a program that gives you almost what you need; our team wants to give you Exactly what you need.
Virtual Room
Delivering traditional onsite training results …virtually!
We’ve officially changed the rules and redefined what is possible in the world of soft skills learning. Our unique technology, accompanied by honed delivery methodology, have successfully replicated the traditional classroom-style training environment, allowing it to exist online.
Most online training solutions limit participants’ responses to keystrokes or to single person conversations because -with inferior technology- group discussions become distorted and confusing to follow. Our Virtual Room has eliminated those barriers and encourages learning through meaningful instructor feedback, skills modelling and engaging group discussion, without visual or audio distortion
The Virtual Room is for any organization seeking a flexible substitute to traditional onsite training; whether to lower costs, eliminate unnecessary travel or to simply ease the burden of demanding work schedules.
Lunch & Learn
A Lunch and Learn session is an onsite or virtual learning program with a facilitator-led session sharing valuable information and skills on an area of identified learning interest. It’s a great break away from a traditional training program, allowing your team the opportunity to learn while enjoying their lunch. Due to the limited time, the program focuses on specific learning concepts and skills. It is an interactive session that quickly targets and reveals learning objectives that are predetermined by the training organizer. Lunch & Learn sessions are also great as a training series, providing progressive learning programs for developing skills in a ‘bite-sized’ format.
INTERACTIVE
WORKSHOPS & WEBINARS
Quality interactive and engaging training professionally presented.
In today’s workplace, trying to coordinate a single day or location for a group can be a challenge and at times costly. We understand that the needs of our clients are varied so we have made accessing interactive learning as convenient as a click of a button. From single to multi-person registrations this option has provided convenience for many; a live webinar or prescheduled workshop may offer the perfect solution.
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