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Delivering First-class Business Presentations

Introduction

If you want to succeed in today's highly competitive business environment, you need to communicate well and present yourself successfully. The ability to deliver an effective business presentation to customers, peers, and corporations is an asset that everyone should strive to add to their portfolio in developing their careers.

For first time presenters as well as those more seasoned, delivering a presentation can be a make or break situation. It can accelerate careers or put the brakes on it depending how well you articulate your points. For many, we’ll think of a hundred-and-one reason’s to get out of it until the day comes when you just have to go up and get on with it.

The aim of this course is to take participants through the entire presentation process from a modern context in delivering business presentations. The course is very practical and loaded with examples and role-plays to get participants involved, and deliver an impressive presentation.

Course Objectives

• To learn, step-by-step, the different stages of developing a presentation.
• To deliver a natural presentation style in a business context.
• Crafting an effective message and maintain it throughout the presentation.
• Understand the use and role of body language
• To build confidence and use techniques to overcome nerves.
• Understand basic design and visual concepts for slide presentations.
• To analyse and critique participants own presentation style through video.

Methodology
The course content is delivered in a highly participative manner to engage participants including role-play, questions, and media examples. In addition participants will be given exercises, discussion and Asian-based case studies of sales and marketing issues.

Course Outline

Understand who you’re presenting to
Focus the participants on understanding who they must deliver to and what the audience wants to hear.

Know how you’re going to present it and what they want to hear
Adopting a business style approach to particular material and understanding what your sudience really wants to hear from you.

How to build engaging content
Gain insight how to develop content in a compelling way for different presentation types and learn what should go in and what shouldn’t.

Using great business language to sell your message
Whilst emphasis is placed on volume, in business, it’s the business language we use that compels, captivates, motivates and sells rather than how loud we become. How we choose our words can leave lasting impressions on audience members and great care and awareness must be used in our choice of words.

Business Slide and Visual Design
Know the mechanics to developing fantastic visuals, cutting down text and delivery a great visual value-add to your delivery.

Presentation Logistics & Venue
Often overlooked by presenters, but too often becomes the main reason why some presentations come off badly, fail or look unprepared.

Dealing with Nerves
Understand the techniques to reduce nervous and enhance preparation.

Confident use of Body language
Strong confident language (non-verbal) says just as much as your spoken word and by carrying and delivering your presentation using choreographed movements greatly adds weight to your delivery.

Questions and Answer Sessions
How to tackle, rebut and bring successful closure during Q&A sessions and knowing how to structure it properly and remain in control.

Trainer(s)

Mr Normand, Mark James

Mark is an international trainer that has traversed much of Asia to deliver meaningful training experiences. Born in Chelmsford, England, he has since lived and worked almost two decades in Singapore. Spanning more than 10 years he has worked in the areas of Sales, Marketing, Product Development, Business Development, Education, and Corporate Training.

He holds an Honours degree in Business Studies and Information Technology in addition to studying Postgraduate qualifications in Training and Development. Since then he has started two firms, one in training and consultancy and the other in marketing and design. He also practices graphic design and amateur digital photography as part of his outside interests. He has also authored an ebook entitled "PowerPoint Design Mechanics".

He has trained for medium size and multinational companies at different levels of management including such companies as AIG, SingTel, Singapore Tourism Board, CISCO Security, DBS, Siemens, Panasonic, PSA International, Sunningdale Technologies, Sampoerna Organisation, Singapore Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University, Civil Service College, Workforce Development Authority of Singapore, and many more.

Who Should Attend

Anyone involved with presentations from new managers and young executives. Industries are varied and can include those from sales and marketing, product development, finance, communications, HR, training and many more to those that just need to make an affect by use of communication skills.

Course Details

Date:

7 to 8 December 2009

Time:

9:00am to 5:00pm

Venue:

NTU@one-north campus, Executive Centre

Closing Date:

23 November 2009

Fee:

Standard: SGD$590 Alumni: SGD$472 Group (3 & Above): SGD$531

Registration fees inclusive of:

Course materials
Light refreshments
Lunch
Complimentary parking (1 entry/day) - applicable at NTU@one-north campus only.
Prevailing GST

Online Registration

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Methods of Payment

1. Credit Card (Visa and Mastercard only)

2. Cheque made payable to Nanyang Technological University

3. Invoice to Company (for Company Sponsored Participants)

4. E-invoice (for Government Organizations)

Cancellation & Refund Policy

Written notification to cce@ntu.edu.sg or fax: (+65) 6774 2911 at least 10 days before course commencement	No cancellation charges (Full refund)
Written notification within 4 – 9 days before course commencement	50% of course fees (50% refund)
Written notification within 3 days before course commencement	100% of course fees (No refund)