Showing posts with label Conference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conference. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Which one matches your need?

The Presenter's Handbook is so much more than a book.  It allows presenter's to develop core skills and techniques in presenting.

We are transforming perception and expectation of presenting. 

The first important step in presenting is understanding that none of us are perfect, it takes time to continuously improve presentation performance. As your first step in acknowledging that your presentation skills can be improved try the quick test on our website.  The average score is 8/15.  This proves many of us need to improve those presentation skills.

Once that important step is acknowledged, you can improve your presentation skills. The next step is deciding where the improvement would have a significant impact. A selection of courses are available covering physiology, psychology, performance, reflection and 2 courses designed specifically for the presentation.

If these courses do not match exactly, for example a sales team, then The Presenter's Handbook can offer a bespoke selection of courses.

Once the training is over, the process of improvement does not stop.  We offer remote analysis of presentations through secure servers.  This allows you to view your presentation and feedback from anywhere in the world. 

As we said constant improvement for professional development.


It all starts with you though, taking that first step of acknowledging improvement is possible.




Full chapter registration

On line presenter test

Full course out line

Buy the book
Continual Professional Development

State of the art video analysis

Remote access for clients

Worldwide access
  
To support mentoring The Presenter's Handbook have a selection of courses that address many of the issues experienced by presenter's.  

Which one matches your need?







Improve the physiology of presenting.

Removing fears of presenting.

Understanding body language.

Understanding mood.

Where to look and how to talk.
Improve the psychology of presenting.

Creating positive anchors as latches.

How memory influences an audience.

Cognitive dissonance to build slides.

Central fitness indicators.


Improve the performance of presenting.

Key message and story.

Addressing the audience.

Dual encoding of talk and graphic

Understanding the audience requirements.
Improve initial presentation skills.

Consideration of bullets and graphics.

Consideration of text and numbers.

What constitutes a distraction?

Interaction a key driver.


Improve the complete presentation.

Orientation and freedom to move.

Tactical pause in the presentation.

Allowing questions.

Understand the running order.
Importance of reflection on a presentation.

Audience participation.

Timing.

Generation of feedback.

The final thought.




Monday, 28 January 2013

A poor presenters checklist


All to often we have to sit through presentations at conferences and exhibitions where the presenter is the weak link.  Have a bit of fun with this checklist and see how many of these the presenter of your next presentation actually does.

If they do five or more let us know at The Presenters Handbook and we will enter them into a prize draw. Those submitting will also be in with a chance of winning a signed hardback copy of The Presenter's Handbook.

All we need is the following:


Name of presenter


Company represented


Where was the presentation?


When was the presentation?


 

Your A to Z checklist


A
Abstract
Inclusion of abstract clip art and noises.

B
Bullet
Bullet point after bullet point on every slide.

C
Colours
Colours clash on graphs making them illegible.

D
Doodling
Your doodling gets more and more detailed as the presentation goes on.
E
Eye
The presenter offers no eye contact with the audience.

F
Facial
The presenter does not change facial expression whilst presenting.
G
Garish
Garish clothing detracts from the presentation.

H
Hands
Hands have the shakes when presenting.

I
Interaction
The presenter offers no interaction with the audience.

J
Joke
Inappropriate or unfunny jokes form the basis of the presentation.
K
Key
Not one key message is clear during the presentation.
L
Lectern
The presenter does not emerge from behind the lectern.

M
Mingle
The presenter does not mingle with the audience before or after the presentation.
N
Notes
No notes where supplied following the presentation.

O
Outside
Outside influences are blamed for all small errors.

P
PowerPoint
Printing off the PowerPoint presentation does not constitute a set of notes.
Q
Questions
Questions from the audience are not acknowledged .

R
Reading
The presenter has to read every word of each slide to get their message across.
S
Sweat
The presenter has a sweaty brow or sweaty armpits.

T
Time
The presenter runs out of time, rushing the key message at the end.
U
Unrehearsed
The presenter is unrehearsed, not knowing what is coming on the next slide.
V
Video
The presenter does not realise that watching a video of over 30 seconds the audience can lose interest.
W
Window
You find it more interesting to look out of the window during the presentation.
X
XL
The presentation was XL in length, meaning you started to fidget.
Y
Yes
Yes you can make a difference to the presenter.  Tell them about The Presenter's Handbook
Z
Zero
Accept a zero tolerance approach to poor presentations, help us make a difference.


Email your findings back to The Presenter's Handbook using office@presentershandbook.com

Wherever you are in the world make a difference and send us your feedback.

 Enjoy watching your next presentation.