Giving briefings and making presentations in the workplace
Overview
Excellent communication at work requires continual nurturing but pays handsome rewards. Improving briefing and presentation quality is a superb way to lift the effectiveness of communication in your organisation.
Learning objectives
- Know how to conduct a briefing or presentation
Who is it for?
Managers and support staff who are required to communicate effectively to groups of people.
Course content
- Selection of relevant information content
- How to plan and prepare effectively for briefings (account for Purpose; Audience; Content; Form)
- Formal and informal presentation skills including platform techniques and visual aids
- How to evaluate briefings/presentations
- Use of feedback to check understanding
- Reporting back to management after briefing
- The value of various methods of data presentation – tables, graphs, charts, diagrams, Gantt charts, etc
- Evaluation of alternative methods to select the most appropriate for a given situation
- How to construct a range of data presentation methods
- The use of spreadsheets for the creation of graphs, charts and diagrams
- How to interpret information contained in charts and diagrams, and explain this to others
- Supervised practice or simulation to develop the ability to apply knowledge and skills
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