Mastering Presentation Skills for the Workplace

Course Code: DED2612
School: Distance-Education.org

Description

Public speaking is a frightening task to many people, but it's also a crucial tool in career success. This course explains how proper preparation can help you deliver a more effective presentation, how to best structure message content to accomplish a presentation goal,provides tips and tools for improving your delivery skills for presentations, and shows you how to design a dynamic PowerPoint presentation and use other visual tools to support message content.

Features:

• Flash and audio provide animated, interactive Lesson Introductions, Activities, and Simulations.
• Flash scenarios use real world situations to illustrate course concepts.
• Streaming video scenarios illustrate real world issues and solutions discussed in the course.
• Audio accompanies each lesson page throughout the course.
• Decision Point activities allow learners to work toward an outcome in an interactive environment.
• Simulations teach learners to perform specific tasks in applications through guided, multi-step exercises.
• Activities allow learners to apply course concepts in an interactive questioning environment.
• Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied.
• A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
• Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
• Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
• Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
• A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
• A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
• Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.

Course Outline

The topics covered in this course include:

• Presentation Stages
• Presentation Purpose
• Presentation Goals
• Audience Analysis
• Demographic Factors
• Corporate Expectations
• Corporate Hierarchy
• General presentation pattern
• Audience connection
• Presentation agenda
• Nonverbal First Impressions
• Speaking Voice
• Nonverbal Cues
• Slide design
• Information structure
• Slide enhancements

Outcomes

By completing this course you will learn to:

• List the stages for creating an effective presentation
• Describe how to analyze an audience
• Examine miscellaneous factors that can affect your presentation
• Structure a presentation using the framework of audience connection, wrapping up, and transitions
• Create presentations using both the general and problem-solving presentation patterns
• Describe how an audience views nonverbal cues
• Explain how presentation notes support your message
• Identify habits you should avoid when giving a presentation
• Design effective slides using text features, color, and white space
• Organize information using an agenda, slide transitions, and planned slide builds

Assessment

Students may master the course/s by achieving a percentage at or above 70% for each individual lesson, through their scoring results of the course questions, the skill assessment, or a combination of both.

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