Importance of presentation skills training in Corporate & Business environment
Presentation Skills Training is very important for any business because different stakeholders need to deliver presentation to internal/external people. And the quality of presentation becomes one of the critical factor in the success & failure of the results. Presentation may happen one-to-one, one-to-few or one-to-many and every type of presentation has it’s own importance.
Also with great platforms like TEDx, audience is always going to compare your presentation with some best presentation that they have seen in-person/online.
Especially for “Premium Brands” it’s even more critical to adopt better presentation tools and train their executives on “Virtual Presentation Skills” so that their virtual presentation resonates with “BRAND” perception.
1. CXOs of the company address the employees of the company during annual meetings, town-hall meetings etc and presentation of the message is very crucial for employees to get the right message about future of organization
2. During business development meetings, presentation by sales and business development professionals can be crucial to achieve desired outcome and sales conversion
3. Entrepreneurs delivering presentations in front of investors
And there are numerous more scenarios. You can also think of scenario where you think, you are required to delivery presentation.
Physical and Virtual Presentation
During physical presentation, presenter available in-person and deliver the presentation in front of other people Virtual presentation is when presenter is not available in the same room but delivering the presentation using some mechanism (software based meeting tools to full fledged studio setups).
After recent pandemic, importance of virtual presentation has increase a lot. Though virtual presentations were also help pre-pandemic to address people at different locations and even while catering to global audience.
Being an International Keynote Speaker, I have personally delivered numerous physical and virtual presentations and hence helping business executives and leaders to delivery effective presentation to maximize their outcome.
Physical Presentation
Virtual Presentation
Critical factors to deliver a World-Class Presentation
Whether I am delivering my signature keynote or I am delivering presentation skills training/workshop to business executives, I have experienced that below mentioned factors can greatly enhance quality of presentation and in-turn helps you achieve the desired objectives.
Presentation Requirement analysis:
Presentation is a information delivery mechanism but first we need to understand, what we like to achieve in the end i.e. High level purpose of this activity and we can also say “why are we doing this?” Hence below mentioned questions can help you analyze the broader requirement and context of the presentation. For professional presenters & keynote speakers like me, this comes before we even starting writing the content and flow of the speech:
– Why are you delivering this presentation
– What are the key objectives that you like to achieve through this presentation
– What are the key objectives of different stake holders who are involved in this process
– Key points that you plan to cover during the presentation
Further steps involved:
1. Identifying the key learning outcome
2. Key points to be covered i.e what are the best way to cover points which to achieve the learning outcome identified earlier
3. Presentation Flow Mastery
4. Presentation Design Mastery
5. Presentation Delivery Mastery – Public Speaking & Body Language
6. Presentation Tools Mastery
7. How to practice & improvise your Presentation Delivery to make it world-class
Finer details to make your presentation truly world-class
In addition to above mentioned points, professional presenters also consider other minute details to design and deliver their presentation. Some of these finer details are:
1. Time of the day when you are going to deliver the presentation.
2. Previous and Next Speaker & their topic. Also can you connect your presentation with the message of other speakers. It require a very experienced professional to do this.
3. In-depth understanding of the ambience and room dynamics with audience background.
In addition to above mentioned points which are common between a physical and virtual presentation, there are certain unique factors which are unique to virtual presentation. Some of these factors are mentioned below.
Virtual Presentation Skill Training
Virtual presentation can be done through various tools. To deliver an effective and extra ordinary virtual presentation, presenter also need to take care of following factors:
1. Online platform mastery (e.g. Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more)
2. Camera Mastery – Quality & right positiong of camera (managing single and multiple cameras etc.)
3. Audio Mastery – noice think that great virtual presentation require best camera, but professional presenters and keynote speakers like me are aware that audio quality is even more important than camera quality to delivery a high-stake world-class presentation
4. Chroma setup (Green screen) to bring slide and content in a more powerful and engaging manner
5. Lighting Mastery and more
6. Other professional tools to increase the effectiveness and experience of virtual presentation
7. Best practices to engage your audience during virtual meetings
Virtual Presentation using Zoom platform
There are many onling meeting platforms, though in recent time, Zoom has been one of the most widely used online meeting application. Hence my virtual presentation masterclass also covers:
- Zoom Basic
- Zoom Advanced
- Zoom PPT as background feature
Online video course covering everything form Zoom feature, Camera, Audio & other minor details required to deliver such Virtual Presentation. This online recorded video course has 9+ Modules and 70 + min. Rs. 1450 (INR) / USD $20
You can also engage me to work with your business executives to deliver such world-class virtual/physical presentations
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Presentation skill is going to be even more critical and important when attention-span of audience is reducing every day and they always have an alternative to your presentation i.e. their mobile phone which is always in their hand. Hence as presenter, you need to deliver a world-class presentation if you really want to achieve your goals and objectives – Vikas Jain