Presentations: Preparing, Developing, and Delivering Study Guide

1-4239-5155-7 © 2007 Publish date: May 29, 2006 162 pages

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Learn techniques for creating stunning presentations by following the Presentations: Preparing, Developing, and Delivering study guide. You'll find high quality content in this course which has achieved a 4.9/5.0 rating in overall quality from ProCert Labs.

The Presentations: Preparing, Developing, and Delivering courseware introduces the fundamentals of presentation design. You will learn about the mechanisms of good speeches and presentations, and then you will learn how to put these parts into practice and develop your own presentation.

As you work through the activities included in this study guide, you will write and deliver three short presentations of your own.

You'll learn a variety of delivery techniques including how to build rapport with your audience, how to use body language as well as humor, and how to conduct a question and answer session. You don't need any prior experience with creating presentations to participate in the Presentations: Preparing, Developing, and Delivering courseware. All you need is a desire to improve your presentation skills.

Our full line of computer training books is developed with your success in mind. Each book is expertly written featuring hands-on exercises and section reviews to help ensure that you thoroughly learn the steps, concepts, and techniques presented.

This courseware comes with CertBlaster software as an added bonus.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers an introduction to public speaking

• Presentations
• Public speaking
• Communication

Unit 2 discusses how to prepare your presentation

• The presentation process
• The presentation's purpose
• Analyzing the audience
• Presentation structures

Unit 3 goes over how to develop your presentation

• The introduction
• The body
• The conclusion
• Transitions
• Rehearsal techniques

Unit 4 covers delivering your presentation

• Gearing up for the presenation
• Personal motivation
• Building rapport and credibility
• Voice and body techniques

Unit 5 covers humor and visual aids

• Using humor
• The question and answer session
• Using visual aids

Unit 6 talks about putting the learning into practice

• The implementation phase
• Resources and tools

Appendix A Using colors and PowerPoint

• Using colors in presentations
• Using Microsoft PowerPoint