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Presentation Skills and Public Speaking
A one-day course on presenting clearly and speaking with confidence
Overview
A one-day, trainer-led course on designing and delivering presentations that hold a room. Each participant builds one real talk across the day — message, structure, slides, delivery — and speaks three times, with structured peer feedback after every round. The pack gives a trainer scripted session notes, timed activities, a participant workbook, five handouts and two case studies, all editable for classroom or online delivery.
Format. One day. Designed for classroom delivery and adaptable to live online sessions.
Who it is for. Open level: anyone who presents at work — team briefings, client updates, pitches, board papers or conference talks — from first-time speakers to experienced presenters tightening their craft. Best run with 8 to 12 participants so every person completes three timed speaking rounds with feedback.
What delegates take away
- Define the single message a presentation must land and build everything around it.
- Structure a talk with an opening that earns attention, a middle listeners can follow, and a close that directs action.
- Design slides that support the speaker rather than competing for attention.
- Use pace, pause, stance and eye contact deliberately.
- Manage nerves before and during a talk using evidence-based techniques.
- Handle questions, interruptions and difficult moments without losing the room.
Course outline
Defines the job of a presentation, the five recurring reasons presentations fail, and the ethos-pathos-logos lens, and corrects the 7-38-55 body language myth. Participants deliver a 60-second baseline talk and deconstruct a presentation that stayed with them.
Participants map their real audience with five questions, meet the curse of knowledge, and draft a one-sentence message line that must survive a partner's repetition test.
Openings that earn attention, three ways to organise the middle, signposting, and closes planned word for word — built into a full talk skeleton and delivered as a 90-second round-two talk before lunch.
What slides are for, claim headlines backed by evidence, showing data without losing the room, and when the strongest slide is a dark screen — applied in a slide makeover exercise.
Pace, pause and volume; stance, gesture and eye contact; filler words and their fixes — practised in three timed trio drills with peer scoring.
What stage nerves are physiologically, reappraisal and breathing techniques usable within the hour, recovery protocols for when things go wrong, and a curveball drill giving every participant one live recovery.
Question handling and difficult moments, a full three-minute round-three talk with live questions and structured feedback, and a 30-day practice plan with the first speaking commitment booked before leaving.
What is in the kit
Slide deck
48 branded, fully editable PowerPoint slides with facilitator notes on every slide
Trainer notes
Complete facilitator guide: agenda, slide-by-slide delivery notes and guidance
Case studies — two editions
The same case material in international and Gulf settings; pick by audience
Participant workbook
10 in-session exercises with writing space
Handouts
5 complete standalone handouts: worksheets, checklists and scenario sets
Certificates
Attendance and completion certificate templates with the MIZAN seal
Course administration
Feedback form and sign-in sheet
Editions
The license in one sentence
Buy once, deliver the course as often as you like to as many delegates as you like, edit anything, add your own branding — you only may not resell or redistribute the materials themselves. Every download is stamped with your name, tier and order number. Full license terms
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