Presenting with Impact
Speak with confidence to engage and persuade a variety of audiences. Engineering professionals must communicate with people in team meetings, client briefs, and seminars. This highly interactive course, followed by private 1:1 coaching sessions, will increase your self-confidence and influence your clients and colleagues.
Description
Presentation skills are a powerful tool for client engagement, connecting with colleagues and winning work.
Confidence is necessary for influencing and persuading your audience internally as well as outside your organisation.
In this course, participants will explore techniques to deliver effective presentations in team meetings, client briefs and seminars.
Through discussion and practical exercises, course participants will consider how to connect with their audience and create a clear call to action.
Participants can choose to follow the course with a 1 hour coaching session for feedback from the tutor on their presenting style.
Learning outcomes
This course is designed to help you:
- Identify your purpose for speaking with your audience
- Explore ways to analyse your audience
- Deliver your presentation to a variety of audiences
- Explore ways to improve confidence and stay calm and focused
- Create a clear structure to ensure your message is clear
- Influence and persuade with a clear ‘call to action’ for results
- Identify interesting ways to start and conclude your speech
- Practise speaking with a variety of pitch, pace, pause to engage the audience
- Explore body language techniques used by the world’s best speakers
- List ways to support your message with visuals and slides
Participants can choose to follow this course with a 1 hour private coaching session for tutor feedback about your presentation style or to discuss upcoming presentations.
Intended audience
This course is useful for all engineering professionals and managers wishing to improve their presentation and communication skills for a variety of audiences. The course will focus on learn how to speak with purpose and influence your audience. It is relevant for all professionals who want to improve their presentation skills.
Format
Effective Presentation Skills is a 4.5 hour course, facilitated online, followed by half hour 1:1 coaching sessions. Concepts and theories of presentation skills are explained, then applied through case studies, videos, and discussions. Real-time interactions such as activities, polls and Q&As will allow you to connect and ask questions throughout the course. Participants will be given time to prepare a pitch with a clear all to action during the course. Participants can choose to follow this course with a private 1:1 coaching session with the course tutor for feedback on their presenting style, and to discuss any upcoming presentations.
Presenter information
As director of KiwiBoss, employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass develops leaders to improve their communication and management skills. Julia has coached senior leaders in public speaking and facilitated workshops on presentation skills for professionals throughout New Zealand. She is a practical and engaging presenter with expertise in training engineering professionals to create high-performing workplaces. Julia is an employment columnist for the NZ Herald.