Presentations are an inevitable and important part of any career - both to give and still worse, to sit through! Too often a presentation attempts to "convey information" to an (unwilling?) audience and the result is "Death by PowerPoint" and other forms of audience-abuse.

What happens after the presentation? A presentation should aim to accomplish a specific desired result. If nothing happens after, then everyone's time & effort have been wasted!

This two-day workshop is an opportunity to plan, prepare and practise delivering work-related presentations. This exercise-based workshop is intended for anyone who wants to produce results from their presentations.

Results-Based Presenting covers:

1. defining the result the presentation is intended to achieve;
2. targeting your intended audience;
3. a top-down approach to structuring a meaningful & memorable message;
4. guidelines for designing effective slides and audio-visual aids;
5. anticipating and handling questions.

Some comments from participants:

• "Excellent. Taught me things I had never even thought of!"
• "This is a good course, particularly for the people who come from outside of the UK."
• "Also uncovered objectives I didn't know I had!"
• "We were asked what we wanted to do and that's what we did."
• "I appreciated very much that the course was not fixed to a script."
• "I liked the thoroughness of the ground covered and the way it was presented in an easy to understand approach."
• "Common sense approach, not the jargon-filled, buzz-worded course I had envisioned. Almost everything was useful."
• "Easy to approach, charismatic, patient, in control of the schedule without being pushy/strict. Good knowledge of subject. Catchy delivery style."
• "Interactive, friendly atmosphere that made you want to learn."
• "It did a very good job in making me realise that presentations need to have a point and need to be more carefully planned & structured to meet both mine & the audience's needs."
• "Understanding what the audience wants to know and how to match that with what I try to present."
• "Would love more! Very enjoyable. Very interesting."
• "I used to feel very insecure giving presentations - that changed."
• "Yes, everyone improved - my nerves were a lot better and I gave my first presentation without notes!"