Presentation Skills

Objective: To help participants develop, practice and improve their skills in presenting information and making more influential presentations.

Glick Training Associates provides a highly interactive training program that utilizes various learning modalities of lecture, video and skill practice. This program is usually delivered in four ½ day training sessions and one ½ day coaching session. Each participant will have opportunities throughout the training to practice the skills being taught. All participants will develop and deliver three presentations. These presentations will be video taped and Glick Training will provide both written and verbal feedback to each participant. Glick will also prepare a written report for the client identifying the strengths and areas needing improvement for each participant. If additional individual coaching is needed for any participant, Glick can also provide that service. In order to maximize experiential learning, class size is limited to ten participants.

The training program consists of five modules: Communication, Preparing and Planning Effective Presentations, Delivering Your Presentation, Practicing Presentation Skills, and an Individual Coaching Session with Each Participant.

Comments from previous participants:

“Good course! I learned a lot of useful information and I believe it will help me.”

“This program was an excellent way to increase the professionalism of our staff and how we represent the company overall.”

“Excellent program. I feel much more relaxed about doing my presentations with clients.”

Presentation Skills Profile
Ian MacDonald

Objective - To identify strengths and weaknesses in preparing and delivering presentations
Intended For - All organizational members who give presentations
Time Required - 1-1/2 to 2 hours
Product Format - Instrument

As more work is carried out by teams and task groups, the need to present ideas and information is becoming everyone's job. But speaking in front of others can be a confusing and even terrifying experience for many people. The Presentation Skills Profile is designed to ease the stress associated with public presentations.

Overview

How can you successfully train your participants, even those with no prior experience, how to effectively prepare and deliver presentations? The Presentation Skills Profile (PSP) takes the mystery out of designing and delivering high-impact presentations. First, a 48-item profile analyzes how the respondent prepares and delivers presentations. Then, extensive interpretive information describes the six key elements in the process. These elements are tied together in a simple, easy-to-train model. Finally, a set of worksheets is included for walking the respondent through preparation and delivery of his/her own presentation.

Respondents will learn the importance of:

setting objectives
analyzing and involving the audience
structuring a presentation
creating impact
designing and displaying visual aids
staging a presentation

A valuable source of information on presentation skills can be the participants' peers. The Presentation Skills Profile Feedback Form offers a 24-item condensed version of the PSP that is perfect for evaluating a specific presentation. A chart for consolidating up to 10 Feedback Forms is included in the PSP participant booklet.

Use Presentation Skills Profile:

as the centerpiece of a workshop on presentation skills
to evaluate a specific presentation as a measurement of progress in preparing and delivering presentations

The extensive participant booklet includes the self-assessment with pressure-sensitive scoring, interpretive information, and worksheets for preparing and delivering a presentation. The Facilitator Guide contains background theory, administration guidelines, transparency masters, reproducible case studies, and more.

The Big Book of Presentation Games
John Newstrom & Edward Scannell

Product Format - Paperback

Authors Newstrom and Scannell take the kinds of activities made popular in their renowned "Games Trainers Play" series and adapt them for today's pressured business speakers, providing brief, participative activities that can help them wake up, win over, win back, and pump up audiences of all kinds.

These fun-filled, interactive games and activities are specifically designed to:

Build rapport and warm up the audience
Provide refreshing "breathers" from the monotony of a speech
Get people's blood flowing with physical activity
Generate lively discussions
Reinforce the key points of your message in an enjoyable way
Win back an audience that's tuned out.

Each game is fast, fun, creative, and easy-to-read, and easy-to-lead, and costs little or nothing.

Categories include: Session-openers, Icebreakers, Climate-setting games, Practical jokes and tricks, Audience brainteasers, Motivation activities, Closing activities.

The Big Book of Flip Charts
Robert William Lucas

Product Format - Paperback

There's still no more lively, informative, and audience-friendly way to make an impact than with flip charts. But using flip charts well is a skill that must be developed. The Big Book of Flip Charts is a comprehensive handbook from professional trainer and communications expert, Robert Lucas. He explains how flip charts can make you a better facilitator.

This comprehensive handbook includes:

Basic design principles and techniques used by professionals

Simple "tricks of the trade" that make an impact all the way to the back of the room

Tips on drawing and displaying great-looking flip charts

Over two-dozen creative flip-chart-based group activities

Ready-to-copy flip chart graphics, icons, and templates

How to use lettering in an attractive and impactful way

Use of spacing, color and fonts

The Big Book of Flip Charts is the ultimate reference guide for flipcharts, covering not only writing and displaying techniques, but also layout and graphics, as well as flip chart facilitation activities.