Trainer, presenter, facilitator: if you are new to leading a group, these roles can seem the same. They are not, and the difference shapes how you connect with your audience.

What this course covers:

• How the trainer, presenter and facilitator roles differ
• What is expected of you in each role
• Choosing the right approach to connect with your audience
• Preparing to share information with a group

Finish clear on the role you are stepping into.

We have all sat through a training session that lost us in the first five minutes. This course helps you avoid that fate as you step into the trainer's role.

What this course covers:

• What it means to become the subject matter expert (SME)
• Building credibility on your topic
• Steps to prevent common training-session disasters
• Setting the foundation for engaging delivery

You will leave ready to train co-workers or public audiences with confidence.

Great presentations are engaging and interactive. They leave an impression on the audience and help reinforce learning points, so your group leaves with what they need to know. In this program, we'll talk about how to create engaging materials to share with your group to get them excited about the information you are sharing. We'll discuss creating an outline and how the body of the presentation should flow. We'll go over designing slides and creating handouts. We'll also go over how to create and use pre- and post-work for your audience.

You've got the content for your presentation prepped and ready, but before you can share it with a live audience, you need to work through some logistics. You want to think about the room layout. You have to consider people's learning styles and how to meet their needs. You should understand different audience types and how to handle their personalities. You need to come up with various ways to keep your audience engaged throughout your presentation. It's a lot to think about and we'll cover all of this and more in our Managing the Audience program.

Engagement is a critical part of comprehension during a presentation. If you're dosing off, you're not retaining anything. In this course, we'll talk about ways that you can connect with your audience, and we'll go over some ways to get them to connect to each other. We'll discuss ice breakers, breakout sessions, telling stories, and debriefing. Having these tricks in your toolbox will make you a much more effective and impactful speaker.

When you're tasked with delivering a presentation, the first thing you need to understand is your audience. Not every presentation is suitable to every audience. You may in fact have to have different versions of the same presentation, based on the audience you're talking to at a given event. So how do you get to know your audience? And once you do, how does that affect your basic outline for your presentation? In this program, we'll talk about getting to know your audience, so you can craft a presentation specific to them.

Whenever you're putting together a presentation, you want to organize your information carefully, and come up with a structure for your presentation. This is sometimes referred to as the backbone of your presentation. There are all kinds of backbones that we can use, depending on what's most logical and effective for that content. In this program, we'll go over the different types of backbones and discuss some common mistakes people make when structuring presentations.

A well-organized, well-prepared presentation is the best way to keep your audience engaged and get your message across.

What this course covers:

• Key strategies for setting up a successful presentation
• Preparing the room, including lighting, seating, and temperature
• Setting up your audio-visual components
• Getting yourself ready to present

Set the stage so your next presentation lands well.

Great presentations start before your main point, by setting the stage for your audience.

What this course covers:

• Preparing your audience for the information ahead
• Setting up a point and driving it home
• Different types of openings you can use
• Ways to keep your audience engaged throughout

You will finish able to open strong and hold attention from the start.

Not every topic is exciting, so how do you hold attention when presenting big data, budget forecasting, or employee benefits?

What this course covers:

• Ways to punch up an otherwise dry presentation
• How to break up content to maintain interest
• Using visuals to support your message
• Working humor into your delivery

Simple techniques to make any presentation more engaging.

Most presentations, whether in person or in a webinar, include slides, and a bad set can turn an audience off and distract from your message.

What this course covers:

• Why slide quality shapes how your content lands
• The most important aspects of creating effective slides
• Design choices that keep an audience engaged
• Common mistakes that distract from your message

You will be able to build slides that support your presentation instead of undermining it.

Most of what you share in a great presentation is forgotten within a day, so well-designed handouts help reinforce your message and make it stick.

What this course covers:

• Why audiences forget most presentation content
• What effective learning reinforcements look like
• How and why handouts help retention
• How much time to invest in creating them

Create handouts that make your message stick, self-paced on Coggno.

You have delivered your presentation and kept the audience engaged. Now you need a strong close to leave a lasting impression.

What this course covers:

• Different ways to wrap up a presentation
• Leaving your audience with a memorable final impression
• Running a successful question-and-answer session
• Common missteps to avoid when taking questions

It suits anyone who wants to finish presentations with confidence and handle audience questions well.

Distractions happen, whether someone walks in mid-meeting or a technology glitch interrupts a webinar.

What this course covers:

• Why distractions pull an audience's attention away
• How to respond when a distraction occurs
• How to bring the audience's focus back to you and your message

You will learn practical ways to keep presentations on track when the unexpected happens.

The hard part is over and your presentation is finished, so what comes next? This course walks through everything that should happen once you stop speaking.

What this course covers:

• Addressing the audience after you finish
• Answering questions with confidence
• Cleaning the space and leaving it as you found it
• Notes worth taking after every presentation

You will know exactly how to wrap up a presentation the right way.