Presentation Skills for the Less Confident

This special course gently focuses on actions and strategies that help steer the worried audit presenter to a less stressful and more positive conclusion. 

Suitability and duration

Suitability: All

Duration: 1 day

Who should attend

This short course is open to all-comers.

Benefits

Skills

After completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Plan your audit talk in stages that suit you;
• Use beneficial strategies to reduce tension and nerves;
• Deploy tactics that generate the right tone and mood from your audience; and
• Use approaches that help you stay in control of your presentation.

Support Materials

This course is accompanied by briefing strategies for successful presentations.

Programme

Presenting to People

• What makes all of us nervous?
• The adrenaline rush and drop – the day before, the day of the talk and the day after
• Strategies to calm and relax
• From fragment to part, from part to section and from section to completed talk
• Deciding what you are going to say and what you are not going to say – using time effectively
• Should I commit my talk to memory or not?

Dealing with Nerves

• Voice care and pitch, pace and projection
• Posture and the use of space
• Creating empathy and communicating sincerity
• Continuity of structure and running out of time
• Reading the audience