Presentation Skills with Brightfires Media
Not all people are equal in presenting their thoughts, ideas and messages. Some have natural presentation skills and some have to learn and practise the necessary skills to deliver their presentation. On top of that, there are many different styles of presentation. Brightfires Media can give you all the tools, tips and techniques to get it right.
Successful presentations are judged on how your audience responds. In this era of technology, everyone is data-obsessed combined with a short attention span. So, getting the right amount of key information across, whilst being engaging throughout, can be a tough assignment. Regardless of whether you’re an experienced presenter or a beginner, all those in front of an audience could benefit from learning or refreshing effective presentation skills.
Our presentation skills training is designed for those individuals who are struggling to deliver their message and want help conveying it to the audience comfortably and convincingly. Or for those who have an important event approaching and need to brush up on their delivery and hone a particular presentation.
When you are in front of an audience at events, meetings, or conferences, you have got one shot to grab their attention. So, it’s a wise move to perfect your presentation skills to land the message, seal the deal and gain the support of your audience.
Learn, Develop and Deliver
The idea of performing a “presentation” seems terrifying for the vast majority of people. But, broken down, it is an art of presenting a few sentences in a creative way. It’s that simple. We will guide you to correct your conversation technique, pick appropriate information to influence people, and make the audience grasp exactly what you want to share. We will aid you to:
- Understand the basics of impactful presentations
- Design and set up strong and audience-influencing presentations
- Deal and eliminate nervousness and anxiety
- Build up self-confidence, positive enthusiasm, better body language, and hand gestures
- Learn and refine the speech delivery technique
- Single out words and phrases that work best (and drop the bad ones!)
- Deliver the key message at the right moment
- Learn to respond to the questions with professionalism and diplomacy
- Learn the effective ways to engage visual aids with your presentation
- Develop simple but powerful stories to engage your audience with your presentation
- Deal with the complicated and unsettling presentation situations
Presentation skills or Media training?
Confused as to which you need? Does it really matter to know the difference between presentation skills and media training? Unfortunately, yes. Many people mix them while actually, they are different. Here we will give you a little bit idea how presentation skills differ from media training. We have broken down the differences into four categories:
Nature
Presentation training helps an individual to learn, and develop the presentation techniques and skills to deliver the message to the live audience.
Media training aids you to learn techniques and skills to deliver the message through the interviews taken by the reporters. The audience of this category is still who you want to connect with, but not always physically in front of you.
Skills you need to learn
To give a good presentation, you need to analyse a great deal of information, break this down to structure your own presentation, be comfortable with the usage of notes or script, and use the visual aids. There are also techniques to master so that you maintain the interest and attention of your audience, over potentially a long period of time.
On the contrary, to give a good interview in front of a reporter, you need to know the ground rules of an interview, and the relevant communication techniques. Not only that, you also have to know how to land your messages regardless of what the reporter says and how to blend your style with the interviewer’s style. Most often the timeframe of interviews is far shorter than you would like, and knowing how to keep a clear head and stay in control is crucial.
Presenting to an Audience
In presentations, you have to deliver your speech to a (hopefully!) captive audience and you have the freedom to control your content throughout the whole presentation.
But, in media interviews, it is entirely different. You have to deliver your message to your audience via a reporter, who you can guarantee will scrutinise it and try to take you in directions that are off-message and that you might not be comfortable with. Also, you will not have control over your content.
Presentation Skills Course Content
The limitations of each person are different. Some individuals can gather knowledge when they do courses with a group and some individuals need a one-to-one session. Our presentation skills development course can be adapted to the needs of those attending. We welcome the opportunity to tailor our sessions to suit your aims and to help you create engaging speeches and effective presentations.
Assessment
Before you kick start the course, we will first assess your skills and abilities regarding the presentation. You may have to go through some question and answer sessions and prepare some presentation work on different subjects. It will allow us to look at your current situation, what you want to achieve, what you are lacking and develop plans and strategies for helping you achieve your desired outcome.
Skills Development and Presentation Preparation
After you go through the assessment process, the presentation skills course will provide you with the necessary techniques, templates, and supporting tools so that you can prepare a knockout presentation.
It will help you to deliver a clear and concise message and develop your connection with the audience. Here are the stages you will go through:
Structure
The structure is the first and foremost necessary thing for your presentation. You have many things to say, but don’t know where to start or how to connect your ideas seamlessly. Unstructured content will make you struggle, but it will be even harder for your audience to stick with you.
In our presentation skills development course, we’ll show you the practical way to build and write a perfect presentation structure that will help you to gain the audience’s attention as well as help the audience follow your flow. We will look at how every part of the introduction, main body, and conclusion is uniquely important.
We’ll show you the ways of developing an attention-grabbing intro, building impactful & evident messages, and a powerful, memorable conclusion. A good presentation always motivates the audience to pay attention more, to feel and act upon it.
Developing Language Skills
Each person’s speaking nature is different and the language plays a big role in delivering the message. Your language reveals your intellectual and interpersonal features.
During the presentation development course, we will work with you to develop your language skills and will help you to find creative ways of conveying your thoughts and ideas to the audience.
In the language skill development sessions, we’ll guide you on how effectively you can use the psychological tricks and rhetorical devices to bring out the stand-out performance. Attracting and convincing the audience is always a linguistic art. Language skills should not be forgotten!
Polishing Your Presentation
When you are in front of a large audience, you have to deliver an inspiring and clear message. We will aid you to develop an effective introduction & conclusion, use verbal & nonverbal communication appropriately so that you can control and convince the audience properly. Plus, tricks to re-engage them if you feel you are losing them.
Including Relevant Stories in Speech
Storytelling is something people forget when planning presentations. Generally, when we talk with our friends, it’s our stories that make them listen to us, and grab their attention before we go on to more serious conversation or imparting information. Presentations are no different.
In the same way stories can make your friends and family listen to you, they will also make the audience pay attention to you. Most people underestimate their importance. Relevant stories have the power to clarify the concept you are trying to convey.
People always remember stories more than facts, so if you wrap up your facts within a story, the audience actually remember the facts as well. So, you should add stories to explain the point in more detail and make it more memorable.
In our public speaking training course, we’ll aid you to identify and tell short but relevant stories so that you can make the audience think exactly what you are thinking.
Using of Visual Aids
Visual aids are a great way to present interesting facts and messages clearly. Good execution of visual aids will help you explain your points and engage the audience with your presentation easily. PowerPoint slides, paper handouts, video documentaries, etc. are good examples of visual aids for great presentations.
During this course, we will aid you in how to use visual aids and how to include information in visual aids.
Managing Nervousness and Anxiety
Nervousness and anxiety are very common when you’re standing in front of a large audience to say something. People can feel this way because they aren’t used to giving presentations, don’t like doing them, or feel the pressure to perform well and ensure positive action from those listening. Tension and stress can impair your delivery and results.
In our presentation training course, we will try to explore why you feel nervous or anxious about a presentation. Then, we will guide you on how to be confident in front of people. Not only that, we will describe to you the techniques to control and reduce stress and anxiety. We will teach you practical ways of speaking techniques to ease the tension.
Developing Skills to Handle Difficult Situation
Facing unexpected issues and getting difficult questions during most presentations is a common thing. There is no alternative except to prepare how to handle situations like that.
During this course, you will learn the techniques to handle negative reactions from the audience or challenging responses. We will help you with general guidelines and describe the methods to deal with problems, critics, and audience behaviours.
Deliver a Successful Presentation
When you are certain of what you are going to say and well-equipped with presentation skill sets, you are ready to give your presentation technique a finishing touch. In this stage, we will work with you for your voice, body language, eye contact, hand gestures, and facial expressions.
Our coach will guide you on how to own the space and how you can influence the audience with these actions. We will also aid you in how you can present yourself and how to create a favourable environment with the speech. You will have to do more practice, outside of the course, to improve your presentation skills continuously so that you can speak fluently and without second-guessing what you are saying or doing.
Outcomes at the end of the course
Now, what will you actually get if you do our Brightfires Media courses?
After finishing the presentation skill training, you will be able to overcome your nervousness & stage fright, design influential & engaging presentations, deal with difficult situations, tell stories that relate to your topic, and land your message with your presentation skills.
On the other hand, after finishing the media training, you will be able to gain communication skills, develop relations with the reporter, handle tough interviewers and answer critical questions with diplomacy & professionalism.