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Enhance Your Virtual Presentation Skills to Manage and Influence Your Audience
Embark on a transformative journey into virtual presentation excellence with our interactive workshop. Conducted in a dynamic virtual classroom environment, this one-day intensive course offers a deep dive into the multifaceted world of digital presentations.
Participants will unlock the keys to creating impactful content tailored for online audiences, discerning the optimal platform for their message, and mastering the subtleties of influential delivery. The course emphasizes refining one's online presence through a combination of captivating slide visuals and effective voice modulation.
Unique challenges associated with virtual presentations are addressed head-on; from mastering the digital equivalent of eye contact to confidently managing those all-too-familiar presentation nerves.
What sets this workshop apart is its commitment to hands-on learning. Participants will not only absorb new knowledge but also have opportunities to put theory into practice, with immediate feedback ensuring an iterative learning experience. By the workshop's conclusion, attendees will be fully equipped with the tools, techniques, and confidence to captivate and inspire any online audience. Join us and elevate your virtual presentation prowess to new heights.
Participants will unlock the keys to creating impactful content tailored for online audiences, discerning the optimal platform for their message, and mastering the subtleties of influential delivery. The course emphasizes refining one's online presence through a combination of captivating slide visuals and effective voice modulation.
Unique challenges associated with virtual presentations are addressed head-on; from mastering the digital equivalent of eye contact to confidently managing those all-too-familiar presentation nerves.
What sets this workshop apart is its commitment to hands-on learning. Participants will not only absorb new knowledge but also have opportunities to put theory into practice, with immediate feedback ensuring an iterative learning experience. By the workshop's conclusion, attendees will be fully equipped with the tools, techniques, and confidence to captivate and inspire any online audience. Join us and elevate your virtual presentation prowess to new heights.
Objective
- Audience Insight: Understand the distinct challenges and advantages of online presentations, and adapt your style for diverse audience groups.
- Message Design: Shape presentations with a focused purpose, set goals, and an engaging framework.
- Digital Tool Expertise: Familiarize yourself with various online resources and grasp their functionalities.
- Interaction Techniques: Employ methods to enhance audience engagement, from presentation styles to effective gestures.
- Online Communication Excellence: Refine your digital communication methods, from using impactful phrases to adjusting voice tones.
- Confidence Building: Establish methods to calm and maintain composure before and throughout your presentation.
Outline
Module 1: Navigating the Virtual Space
- Exploring the distinct challenges and benefits of online presentations.
- Exercise: Sharing individual experiences.
- Setting clear goals, aims, and organizing content.
- Short workshop: Draft an outline for a brief 5-minute talk.
- Recognizing and catering to varied audience demographics.
- Interactive session: Tailoring content for diverse audience groups.
- Tactics to sustain attention and encourage active involvement.
- Exploring additional tools for enhancing online engagement.
- Practical session: Using online tools and alternating presentation styles.
- Deep dive into spoken clarity, tone variation, and related skills.
- Exercise: Developing attention grabbers and effective use of pauses.
- Guidelines for slide design and content creation.
- Evaluation of less effective slide examples.
- Workshop: Energizing presentations, controlling gestures, and establishing digital gaze consistency.
- Exploring root causes of nervousness and mitigation techniques.
- Exercise: Relaxation methods and grounding practices.
Who should attend
- Professionals who frequently conduct or attend virtual meetings and presentations.
- Corporate trainers and educators transitioning to online teaching platforms.
- Sales and marketing teams that use virtual platforms for product demos or pitches.
- Team leaders and managers overseeing remote teams.
- Public speakers and seminar hosts moving to virtual platforms.
- Anyone looking to enhance their virtual communication skills in today's digital-first environment.
Methodology
1. Interactive Learning Approach:
Use real-time polls, quizzes, and Q&A sessions to ensure participant engagement.
2. Hands-On Activities:
Practical exercises such as crafting a short presentation, role-playing for different audience profiles, and practicing voice modulation.
3. Live Demonstrations:
Showcasing good vs. bad examples of slides, effective use of online tools, and body language techniques.
4. Feedback Loops:
Immediate feedback on participant's performance during activities to reinforce learning and provide actionable tips.
5. Collaborative Breakout Sessions:
Smaller group activities where participants can collaborate on exercises, enhancing peer learning.
6. Case Studies:
Analyze real-world scenarios or past presentations to identify what works and what doesn’t in the virtual world.
Use real-time polls, quizzes, and Q&A sessions to ensure participant engagement.
2. Hands-On Activities:
Practical exercises such as crafting a short presentation, role-playing for different audience profiles, and practicing voice modulation.
3. Live Demonstrations:
Showcasing good vs. bad examples of slides, effective use of online tools, and body language techniques.
4. Feedback Loops:
Immediate feedback on participant's performance during activities to reinforce learning and provide actionable tips.
5. Collaborative Breakout Sessions:
Smaller group activities where participants can collaborate on exercises, enhancing peer learning.
6. Case Studies:
Analyze real-world scenarios or past presentations to identify what works and what doesn’t in the virtual world.
Particular of Diana Rahman
Diana Rahman is an ICF ACC trained coach and a successful Image Consultant having spent 10 years with Jill Lowe International. She has since been a corporate trainer for 23 years.
After 6 years as a former professional in the banking industry, Diana made a vital switch and pursued her passion in helping others in Soft skills Development. Diana has extensive experience conducting numerous corporate programs, where she has provided training to executive officers and uniformed staff on various essential topics. These topics include but are not limited to Professional Image Presentation, storytelling, Email Writing, Business & Social Etiquette, Verbal & Non-Verbal Communication, Resilience-Building, Confidence Building, Motivation, Stress Management, Goal-setting, Customer/Client Management Skills, and more.
One of her key achievements is a 10-day Bootcamp, where she conducted Team building, Customer Service Excellence and Motivation project for all 200+ staffs of La Digue Lodge in Seychelles. In 2012, she was awarded the Promising Star Trainer award by Celebrate Life Holdings Pte Ltd.
Her engaging style of presentations and 'live' demonstrations reach out and connect to audiences of various backgrounds, from financial, hospitality and creative industries to healthcare professionals and students.
Diana is also a Memory Trainer, since 2012, and was trained by Alan Yip - founder of Mind Edge and Chief Trainer of the Singapore Memory Team. Under his wing, she teaches participants various proficiencies in study skills, memory techniques, Goal setting, Note-Taking, Study Personality, amongst others.
She also runs Personal Development workshops on Motivation, Confidence Building and Self-esteem Management for Girls Home and Women's Prison.
Diana has also been invited to conduct workshops in Seychelles, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam.
In 2021, her co-authored the book Venus Rising: The Phoenix Awakens, where she talks about her resilience through trials and tribulations; and the rise of women in entrepreneurship. In 2022, the book became an Amazon #1 bestseller.
