Presentation Skills

By the end

What you'll build

• State the single message an audience should be able to repeat afterwards
• Storyboard a talk so the evidence builds towards a specific ask
• Design slides that carry one idea each and remain readable and accessible
• Control voice, pace and pause when presenting under pressure
• Respond to hard questions, including ones you cannot answer, without losing the room
• Run a rehearsal that materially improves the talk before delivery

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 35 lessons

1. 01

   Deciding what the presentation is for

   5 lessons
   • The single sentence your audience should repeat afterwards
   • Informing, persuading and deciding are three different talks
   • Audience analysis in ten minutes
   • Choosing length and format to fit the decision
   • What the talk is formatch pairs
2. 02

   Building the spine

   5 lessons
   • Storyboarding before you open any slide software
   • Openings that earn the next five minutes
   • Ordering evidence so the argument builds
   • Closing on the ask rather than on 'any questions'
   • Storyboard, opening, orderfill blank
3. 03

   Visuals that support the point

   5 lessons
   • One idea per slide: turning a wall of text into a visual
   • Charts that make the comparison obvious
   • Type, contrast and readability from the back of the room
   • Designing for accessibility: colour, contrast and alternative text
   • Rebuild the wall-of-text slidesequence order
4. 04

   Delivery

   5 lessons
   • Voice, pace and pause under pressure
   • Managing nerves through preparation rather than willpower
   • Eye contact, gesture and standing still
   • Presenting on camera and to hybrid audiences
   • Ten minutes out, and your pulse is upscenario
5. 05

   Questions, interruptions and pushback

   5 lessons
   • Handling the question you cannot answer
   • Listening to the question that was actually asked
   • Managing a dominant questioner
   • Parking, deferring and following up properly
   • What the Q&A moment actually needsmatch pairs
6. 06

   Rehearse, deliver, review

   5 lessons
   • Running a rehearsal that changes the talk
   • Timing, cutting and preparing the ten-minute version
   • Collecting feedback you can act on
   • Reusing material without recycling the whole deck
   • Rehearsal that changes the talkfill blank
7. 07

   Practice and check

   5 lessons
   • What the room felt, and whymatch pairs
   • Building a talk that can be delivered in fifteen minutessequence order
   • Message, slides and holding your nervefill blank
   • Fifteen minutes with the group that decidesscenario
   • Course quizquiz

The shape of it

How this course works