Persuasive Presentation Skills - Half Day

How do you develop and deliver impactful, persuasive, and powerful presentations to your audience? What are the key techniques and tools that should be used to transform your audience? Why are presentation skills critical to your ability to influence and lead?

This open skills course spans the entire life-cycle of presentation development and delivery. Exercises range from the initial construction stage to the psychological challenges of delivery. All modes, including virtual delivery, are studied and practiced. This is an accelerated, high-intensity half-day course designed to increase impact for situations of persuasion and influence.

We will actively practice the application of several methodologies and tactics for delivering an impactful presentation, and transforming your audience. 

Course Objectives

We will focus on the logical and emotional objectives of communicating persuasively across multiple modalities. By the end of the course you will:

• Build powerful content that tells a cohesive and compelling story to your audience
• Be able to conduct a comprehensive audience analysis that can be applied to your message
• Deliver presentations that are memorable, authentic, and persuasive
• Tell stories that connect to ‘why’ and create opportunities to influence
• Manage questions and challenges in a manner that is consistent with your presentation purpose

Course Content

Purpose & Audience Analysis

• Identifying purpose and outcome - ‘why’
• Setting factual and emotional objectives
• Analyzing your audience

Content Construction & Editing

• Gathering content – logical and emotional
• Storyboarding
• Editing – leveraging audience analysis
• Storytelling methods

Presentation Delivery & Feedback

• Rehearsing and presentation styles
• Applying feedback
• Managing questions and challenges