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Professional Presentation Skills



Click here for a one-page PDF that describes this training.

Write It Well designed this course for anyone who creates or delivers presentations for work. Participants use Presentations: A Write It Well Guide as the course workbook.

Program Objectives

Participants learn to deliver clear and professional presentations by mastering these skills:

  • Identifying the audience, purpose, and main message
  • Including all necessary information while eliminating unnecessary details
  • Creating strategic lists, charts, and graphs
  • Learning specific behaviors that enhance any presentation
  • Avoiding common presentation pitfalls

Sample Agenda

This one- or two-day course includes the following topics:

  • Introduction, objectives, and training overview
  • Ways to plan a presentation around its audience, purpose, and most important message
  • Techniques for organizing a presentation’s themes and relating them to the main topic
  • Strategies for creating effective lists, charts, graphs, and other visuals
  • Effective presentation delivery – including eye contact, speaking style, gestures, and movement

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Testimonials

The webinar was informative and timely!

Mary L. Calhoun
LA County office of Ombudsman

Thank you for a fabulous workshop. I have already implemented many of the suggestions in my own e-mail correspondence, and have since recommended the book to others.

Marie Coppola
International Association of Business Communicators

The knowledge of the presenter was excellent.

Write It Well transformed a crucial but often overlooked topic [e-mail communication] into a lively, fascinating, and extremely useful presentation. The clarity of e-mail messages exchanged within the office has improved.

Adine Varah, Deputy City Attorney and Director of Training,
City of San Francisco

This book should be required reading for both Internet newbies and new entrants to the workplace

David Krane, Director of Corporate Communications
Google, Inc.

The training was great!

Patriece Paige, Management Analyst
HUD

The webinar was informative and helpful! A valuable tool to improve professionalism at work.

Jeannette Collette
St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center

The Webinar provided strong guidance for effective e-communication and
writing in general.

Jan Kearney-King
HUD

Very valuable training — look forward to more.

I enjoyed the Effective E-Mail webinar. Each time I send an e-mail, I stop and think. What you said really does work!

Ruby Pence
Cleveland County Healthcare System

Your Effective Email webinar was informative and filled with immediately applicable tips. In short, it was great!

Patricia McNeal
Association of National Advertisers

I really enjoyed the Effective E-Mail webinar and picked up some great
points.

Pat Whitaker, Financial Analyst for the Revenue Cycle
Mission Hospital Inc.

Excellent Presentation!

Christy Bedell
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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