Present with confidence.

In today’s dynamic industry, one of the key requirements for you to become a successful leader and business manager is the ability to communicate. This ability to transform thoughts and ideas into action, distinguishes a true leader from the rest.

In business, presentation skill is one of the most powerful communication tools as it gives you an opportunity to leverage together all the 3 modes of communication – written, verbal & body language. Apart from providing visibility in an organization, they serve to help influence an audience and are critical to the decision-making process.

After a few years of experience, most employees acquire functional skills and become "good at their jobs". However, only those who have good presentation skills make the grade and get promoted. This 2-day workshop will impart techniques and tips that will help building Business Communication and Presentation Skills.

The Experienced professional who need to be effective, by improving their formal business communication & presentation skills, increasing their ability to instruct, inform or persuade.

• Understand the skills, knowledge and efforts that go into making an effective presentation.
• How to plan, prepare and deliver presentations.
• Understand one's strengths and capitalize on them and also identify areas of improvement
• Develop skills to manage group interaction and handle objections
• Reduce anxiety and make formal presentations easier
• How to leverage body language to enhance your presentations.
• Knit all the above objectives, by actually practicing effective presentation skills throughout the program

The interactive methodology, which underlies the design of this program, focuses on providing a number of opportunities to practice effective presentation skills during the workshop. The video replays of the presentations made will allow one to see oneself in action and more importantly, provide online feedback on the road to becoming a better presenter.

This workshop assumes that participants have delivered presentations before and the purpose of attending this workshop is to improve their current level of presentation skills. Participants will need to prepare presentations & hence a portable computer with MS PowerPoint is recommended for each participant.

Day 1 What makes a good presentation What is remembered? Types of presentation Why different communications approach? Principles of effective communication Basic pillars of effective communication The 7 Cs Setting the Scene Audience – mix / size etc. Advance information Location Seating arrangement(s) Lighting / Sound / Power A/V aids Background Preparation for the Presentation What is to be communicated? Setting objectives – declared & undeclared Audience needs / orientation Communicating your intentions Building messages / storyline Principles of effective audio-visual communication: Audience memory & recall Use of emphasis Audience involvement Endings Importance of breaks Timing & Breaks Reviews / Recap Start & finish

Day 2 Preparing the Presentation: Structuring The introduction The Main presentation The summary Preparing Notes Preparing Visual Aids - Rule of “7” Rehearse / Dry Run Delivering the Presentation Use of Voice Using Body Language / eye contact Handling nervousness Individual Action Plans based on feedback & key learning: Film clips on specific topics Team Exercises Each team presentation is recorded on video, analyzed & feedback given

Ashim Ghosh is an Engineer (IIT – KGP),  PGDM (IIMA) and a MSc. (Systems – City University, London) and currently engaged in corporate training and consulting.

In the last 5 years, Ashim has conducted a number of public and customized in-house workshops in India for the middle & senior management of more than 100 leading organizations  in the automobile, banking, consulting, manufacturing, telecom, retail & IT/ITEs sectors.

He also comes with the experience of  conducting  a range of public & in house workshops in the U.K. & in the US, during his consulting stint with Cap Gemini, UK.

While developing & conducting workshops, Ashim draws on his rich corporate experience of 29 years  in senior roles as Consultant, VP, Advisor , and MD & CEO of global organizations. His corporate  roles at  CAP Gemini UK, Infosys, United Airlines IT and SkyTech Solutions has given him a wide exposure to IT Governance, project management, bid management and in depth knowledge of verticals like retail, logistics & transportation, manufacturing, energy and general management.

Ashim is a certified lead assessor for ISO 9001 and an accredited MBTI© (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) counselor.

In our workshop, we maximize knowledge assimilation in the participants through combination of execution elements like case discussions, exercises, simulated games and activities, video led sessions and discussions on global best practices. At the end of each workshop we facilitate the participants to distill Key Learning and prepare Action Plans to deliver solid business results for our clients.

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