Psychology of Persuasive Presentations: The End of PowerPoint as We Know It (Presentation Skills I)

Psychology of Persuasive Presentations: The End of PowerPoint as We Know It (Presentation Skills I)

The course is intended academics and early career academics

Summary:

This course will teach you how to use words and pictures to tell compelling stories. After attending this course, you’ll never present the same again.

Course content:

• Presentation and the psychology of perception - what works and what doesn't for the audience, the latest findings of neuroscience on presentation
• The latest trends in preparing and delivering presentations, what is just a fashion and what really works
• Effective tricks for MS PowerPoint to increase the impact of your presentation
• The role of PowerPoint and presentation design
• How to structure a presentation, what is usually not known and forgotten by speakers
• Inspiration - learn from the world's leading speakers (examples of top presentations with analysis)
• Use of non-verbal communication, appropriate and inappropriate gestures for specific situations
• Dealing with difficult audiences
• The most common mistakes in presentations and how to avoid them
• Presentation skills training and analysis

NOTE: Participants will bring to the course a sample of their own MS PowerPoint presentation of 10 - 20 minutes. There is no need to create a new presentation for the course, you can use a shortened version of one of your previous lectures/presentations. During the course, participants will gradually improve the presentation.

Venue of the course:

Institute of Lifelong Learning (ICV), Purkyňova 464/118, Brno, 7. floor, room: 7.14