Keep your audience engaged during training
After effective presentation skills training, participants should leave the session feeling confident that they can give a great presentation to a small or large audience. Make sure your content is interesting and that you meet the needs of your learners. Include interesting, narrated content; visuals to reinforce learning; and hands-on practice sessions in your effective presentation skills training session.
Room Setup
Make sure the room is set up in a way that allows all attendees of the training to be able to see and hear you. Test your audio equipment in advance. Have another person stand at the back of the room to make sure he can hear you and adjust the volume accordingly. Check the room's lighting to make sure it suits your needs. Test your video equipment and make sure that all cables are connected and any remote controls are working properly.
Visual Aids
Use slides to help get your point across. Having slides to show attendees during the training will reinforce what you are telling them by giving them a visual aid. This will help them to retain the information you are presenting.
Content
Your content should include informing the attendees talk in front of a group and combat the effects of stage fright. Include sections on plan a great presentation, make a great first impression and keep an audience engaged. Miscellaneous sections could include body language, the importance of making eye contact and avoid overpreparing.
Role-Playing Activities
Keep your audience engaged by having them participate in role-playing activities. One effective role-playing activity could include having one participant act as the presenter and another act as an annoying person asking many questions. The purpose here would be to help the presenter understand appropriately deal with irritating situations that may develop during his own presentation.
Takeaway Material
Take-away items like manuals or handouts is helpful to participants. They will then have something to refer to after the training is complete. Create a manual that follows your training agenda. It could include slides and notes from your presentation. Participants can follow along with the manual and make necessary notes in the margin. Handouts could include resources such as phone numbers or websites that might be helpful to participants later.
Practice
Leave ample time during your training for participants to practice their presentation skills. This will allow them to practice the material you just gave them while it is fresh in their mind. Also, you are on hand to answer questions or provide assistance if they get stuck.
Following Up
Think about sending participants a survey or questionnaire so you can get their honest feedback. You could hand out surveys to participants to complete in class or you could send one out to them electronically. Either way, let them know how vital their feedback is to future training sessions so they'll be sure to complete the survey.
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