Presentation Skills: Presenting a Positive Image

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Course Overview

This course is designed to help participants understand image and use it to communicate positive messages about themselves.

Skills Gained

• Course benefit - For the organisation
• Project a professional image of your organisation
• Generate positive energy and good working relationships
• Impress customers and enhance your ability to generate business

Prerequisites

• Realise you have choices and the power to take action
• Identify and practise communication skills necessary to create a good impression
• Know how to create and maintain the image you want to project

Course Outline

• What is image? What are your image objectives for yourself and your organisation?
• Exercise on first impressions
• Communicating through appearance, behaviour and body language
• Problems with image: analysing the process of image; raising awareness of what sometimes creates negative messages
• Making choices and taking responsibility for the messages we want to give
• The importance of the inner image: self-esteem and self-affirmation
• Positive communication: the importance of positive language
• Looking after yourself: what can you do to enhance your well-being and fitness?
• External image: how to look and sound
• The importance of voice - tone and clarity: feedback and exercises
• Mingling and mixing: tips on how to be confident when circulating socially at home or work
• Group presentation exercises: looking and sounding positive and confident
• Action planning

Presentation Skills: Presenting a Positive Image / PD-PSPI