Custom Training Information

Planning Your Presentation: Steps to Success

The beginning of a winning presentation requires planning, research, and analysis. The instructor will take you through the steps you need to take, including thinking about the topic, researching the topic and your audience, organizing your thoughts, and employing persuasive techniques during your presentation.

In this session, tips and techniques for delivering a presentation will be discussed. The instructor will teach you breathing exercises that help reduce nervousness, tips on projecting your voice, techniques that increase your confidence in delivering an effective presentation, and strategies to use when answering Q&A. Common do's and don'ts will be discussed. You will be given a chance to practice some of these tips and techniques in an interactive manner.

Choosing the right visual aids may make or break your presentation. You will learn what your visual options are and when you should use them.

• PowerPoint slides
• Videos
• Timelines
• Storyboards

You will have an opportunity to put what you have learned during the day into practice. You will choose a topic and prepare a written summary of the presentation. Some attendees will deliver their presentations to the class. When giving feedback, the instructor will focus on the following areas in order to reinforce concepts taught during the morning session:

• Effective eye contact and body language
• Using targeted "key messages"
• Using persuasion to gain acceptance of your recommendation
• Don'ts-don't read notes; don't use technical jargon and acronyms; and don't be defensive handling Q&A

Working lunch and breaks scheduled as appropriate

All custom training is tailored for each organization and audience. Topics from this program can be combined with topics from our other programs and with topics from your existing training programs.
 

See our Sample Agendas page for agendas from our other custom training.  
 

Usually requires 1 day.  

This program is usually held in Washington, DC.  It can be presented anywhere in the world.
 

If you don't have enough people for a custom, on-site program, see our Capitol Learning Audio Courses:

• Business Etiquette: Keys to Professional Success

• Keys to Effective Presentations: Invigorate Your Delivery and Increase Your Confidence

• Effectively Using Persuasion in Your Oral Presentations: A Trial Lawyer's Perspective
   

The program fee includes pre-program development and design, materials for your internal marketing and promotion, all course materials, and faculty chosen for your topic and your audience at the time and location you choose.

Our custom program clients provide the classroom/meeting space, all audio visual equipment, any food and beverages, all registration functions, and travel arrangements for attendees. When the program is held outside the Washington, DC metro area, travel arrangements for faculty can be made by the client or by us. 

We can also provide meeting space, audio visual equipment, food and beverage, registration, and travel arrangements, though this affects program cost.
 

• Critical Thinking and Writing

• Communication Skills for the Professional

• Effective Executive Briefings

• Grassroots Advocacy on the New Capitol Hill

• How to Work With the Media

• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations

• Strategies for Working with Congress and Congressional Staff

• Tracking and Monitoring Legislation
   

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• Essential Hill and Political Washington Web Sites

• How to Contact Congress

• Politics and Political News

• Capitol Learning Audio Courses:

  • Business Etiquette: Keys to Professional Success

  • Keys to Effective Presentations: Invigorate Your Delivery and Increase Your Confidence

  • Effectively Using Persuasion in Your Oral Presentations: A Trial Lawyer's Perspective
     

• Phone: 703-739-3790

• Email: custom -at- TheCapitol.Net

• Complete our online custom program information request.

  

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