Impactful Presentation Skills

In most of our professional lives in Dubai we have to at some time deliver a presentation, whether it is to a large conference or a small team. Confident presentation skills are an absolute must in today’s business environment and could help you build an even more successful and rewarding career.

A well-delivered presentation can make a powerful impact on your audience and ensure you deliver the message you want them to hear.
In today’s business environment making effective presentations is not only an advantage it is a requirement for success in your chosen profession. However few people present properly or even adequately and some even fear speaking in public more than dying!
This highly interactive training course will teach you proven step by step methods in order to make extremely powerful presentations each and every time.

This course shows you how to build up your confidence, marshal your material in a logical order, achieve rapport with your audience and have them under your control, command their attention and keep their interest.

You will appreciate the language and material that motivates people. You will become better at thinking on your feet and speaking from notes, and more skilled at interpreting non-verbal signals from an audience.

Key Learning Points:

• Be more fluent in the delivery of presentation material
• Fine tune their speaking confidence and step up their enthusiasm
• Respond more sensitively and accurately to audience reactions
• Design, produce and use highly effective visual aids
• Deal with complex data and information
• Maximize the use of PowerPoint to enhance presentations

Course Content

Overview

• How to prepare, structure and rehearse a presentation with minimum time and effort
• How to structure what you say to ensure maximum persuasive impact
• How to enhance what you say with effective visual support
• How to use your voice-pace and pause, more effectively
• How to encourage feedback from your audience to ensure that your points are accepted
• How to recognise and project non-verbal signals!
• How to perform in a team presentation
• The use and abuse of visual aids
• Designing structure, content and logic of the effective persuasive process
• How to organise thoughts, key words and arguments and use mind-mapping techniques to translate these into heightened conversational speech and word pictures
• How to express benefits with power and commitment
• Getting audience commitment in a controlled manner. Dealing with questions and audience interruptions

Training Method

This course is a busy workshop designed to help you develop and improve the style and content of your business presentations.
You will have the opportunity to present individually and as part of a team and will see your presentations improve with each performance.
You will look, speak and feel in control, which will enhance both your personal success and that of your organization.

Meet the Course Instructor

Graham Chambers is a British national, with very wide experience in the role of senior trainer.  He is a former member of the UK military, where he served with distinction, from 1995 to 2006.  For the past seven years, he has worked in various training positions in a range of organizations, primarily linked to the defence and security industries.  In these roles, he has developed and delivered soft skills training programmes, and high level training courses on quality management and project management.

Graham has been resident in the UAE since 2010. His post-military training career involved running a range of courses in leadership, effective communications, team building, planning and organizing skills, decision making, etc.  He also delivered a number of technical training programmes. Graham brings real life experiences into the training room, some of which, due to his military career, are outside the normal experience and scope of many trainers.  His military career included positions relating to intelligence, counter terrorism, homeland security, and international security.  This work required a very focused and analytical approach, combined with excellent communication and leadership skills, and the ability to work in effective, manageable teams.

 Graham joined HMS Ltd, a security training organization as an internal trainer.  In this post, he delivered training to international teams, from the USA, Europe, and the Middle East.  In 2008, he was promoted to manage a team of five direct reports, with additional responsibility for the co-ordination of a 30+ member international team in multiple locations (including the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East).In this role, Graham became something of an expert and was then requested to deliver training programmes to senior figures in the UK and US governments.  He was also responsible for the project management of a number of government projects.

 Graham gained PRINCE2 Practitioner (Project Management) qualification and utilised these skills in the new projects he worked on.  He also delivered training courses in Six Sigma Facilitator Biography (a quality method for improving business efficiency and effectiveness), Change Management, Managing the Training Process, and Train the Trainer.

 Graham has delivered training to over 1000 individuals in the MENA region across a diverse range of industries and sectors.Graham believes his experience and knowledge of the design, planning, and delivery of a wide range of programmes creates excellent outcomes in the training room, with positive feedback from delegates.  Graham always strives to give people a positive and memorable training experience.

 Graham’s key areas of expertise include:

• Specialized Coaching to all levels of Management from junior to ‘C’ suite
• Leadership Courses - multiple courses
• HR Management & Training - multiple courses
• Customer Service – multiple courses
• Sales & Marketing - multiple courses
• Personal Development- multiple courses
• Microsoft Courses, Project, PowerPoint (2010), Word, Outlook