Confident and effective presentations

Giving a presentation can be a scary prospect - but our presentation skills training will give you the confidence and skills to become an effective speaker. And you will even have fun at the same time!

Our Confident and effective presentations is a practical and fun presentation skills course, with lots of tips for calming your nerves, developing your material and increasing your impact. We keep the group size small, with no more than eight or nine delegates, so you will get lots of personal attention, including video and feedback.

Want us to deliver this course at your organisation? Contact us for a bespoke quote.

The course looks at presentation skills from every angle, from preparation and rehearsal to the development of a presentation style. Over the day you will cover:

• knowing what you want to achieve and finding the right way of doing it
• developing and communicating clear messages
• understanding how best to inform and motivate your audience
• gathering your material
  
  • keeping it simple and to the point
  • what to put in and what to leave out
• structuring your presentation
• tips to make your presentation lively and effective
• handling nerves
• developing your confidence
• the power of positive thinking
• developing an upbeat personal presence
  
  • body language
  • dressing for success
  • voice projection

• a year of free support

We will diagnose your strengths and weaknesses and help you to develop a presentation style that plays to your strengths and is right for you.

This course is CPD accredited and worth 5 CPD points.

If you are already reasonably experienced at giving presentations but want a masterclass to improve your style and get new ideas to increase impact then our Impactful presentations course might be better for you. Not sure which is the right course for you? Check out our blog article about which presentation and communication skills course you need depending on your experience and audience.

This course will help you develop presentation skills and confidence in a safe, learning setting. You may be new to giving presentations, or you may be someone who currently gives presentations but has had no formal training. This is the training for you!

The Centre works with people from all sectors including the public sector, voluntary sector, corporate sector and private sector.

Our Confident and effective presentations course, will help you present with confidence in different settings - from conferences to committee meetings, from fundraising pitches to stakeholder gatherings. It will help you understand how audiences can be motivated and persuaded, and will enable you to develop a presentation that achieves your aims.