Effective Presentations

0-619-07544-9 © 2002 Publish date: March 29, 2002 200 pages

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CBT Planet offers another fine choice from our selection of computer training books, the Effective Presentations study guide. By following this course, you'll learn techniques used to design effect presentations. You'll learn about determining realistic objectives for your presentations, how to analyze your audience and how to use additional materials to support your presentation.

In addition, the Effective Presentations courseware teaches organization techniques and shows you how to incorporate visual aids. Other topics include overcoming and reducing the fear of speaking, how to remain calm and appear relaxed. By following the techniques, you will improve the overall delivery of the presentation.

After delivering a presentation, an effective presenter must also know how to assess the audience and answer any questions. This Effective Presentations courseware shows you how to accomplish a successful question and answer session. You'll also learn how to organize persuasive presentation by using both reasoning and emotional appeals in order to persuade your audience.

This study guide is designed to give you the tools you need in order to create effective presentations. You can use it as a self-directed study program or you can use it as an additional training aid as you participate in other forms of training.

Course Objectives

In this courseware you will learn techniques for creating and using effective presentations, how to use different types of presentations, how to plan your presentations, and how to identify your primary and secondary objectives.

In addition, you will learn to analyze your audience, learn about different types of supporting material, and compile supporting materials. You'll understand the different kinds of visual aids, be able to incorporate a variety of visual aids into your presentations, and you will create and display visual aids.

You'll learn techniques for handling questions effectively, how to approach a question-and-answer session, your responsibilities during a session, and how to handle difficult questions.

Other topics include using persuasion in your presentations along with techniques for organizing and presenting a persuasive presentation.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers the fundamentals of presentations

• Effective presentations
• Planning presentations

Unit 2 discusses audience analysis and supporting materials

• How to analyze an audience
• Supporting materials

Unit 3 goes over building presentations

• Building presentations
• Developing introductions
• Organizing the body of the presentation
• Effective conclusions

Unit 4 covers presentation mechanics

• Visual aids
• Understanding visual aids

Unit 5 covers presentation processes

• Extemporaneous speaking
• Preparing for speaking
• Delivering presentations
• Nonverbal communications

Unit 6 talks about the question-and-answer session

• How to handle questions effectively
• Handling challenging questions

Unit 7 covers fundamentals of persuasion

• Understanding persuasion
• Organizing persuasive presentations
• Methods of persuasion