Presentation Skills for Project Managers
14 Instruction Hours (2 Days)

“What! Give a presentation! Oh no, not me. I just can’t do that. It’s not my thing. I always freeze up in front of a group of people.”

If those are your thoughts, and as part of your job as a project manager you must make presentations to customers or conduct training sessions, then this is the seminar for you. Come join us. Learn the secrets of the professionals, from the professionals.

Many technical professionals would rather die than give a presentation. Even the most technically competent project management professionals. Why? It isn’t something that they have been trained to do. They have been given no “tools and techniques” to guide them. Frankly, writing a great speech or presentation is one thing; delivering it is another still. This course will teach you both – how to prepare professional presentation materials, and how to deliver them effectively.

There is no magic bullet that will make you David Letterman over night. But there are tricks of the trade that professionals on the lecture circuit utilize to hone their skills. This seminar will share those techniques with you. We will teach you to be an effective presenter, to utilize humor, to answer the tough questions easily and comfortably. Take a look at some of the other things you will learn from this session…

Who Should Attend:

- Project Managers
- Program Mangers
- Newly appointed managers
- Sales and marketing Professionals
- Engineers

Program Benefits:

- Learn the skills that make the professional trainers and lecturers successful, as well as comfortable in front of an audience.
- Learn to effectively handle an audience and keep their attention – and interest
- Learn what to say, and what not to say during a presentation
- Learn to read body language to enable you to “shift your presentation on the fly”
- Learn to use humor professionally with different audiences
- Learn to develop professional presentation materials and to effectively utilize several media during the presentation to increase audience and interest in what you have to say
- Learn the importance of “interactive” presentation styles to increase comprehension and interest, while making the presentation fun for your audience
- Learn the common barriers to understanding in adults, and how to address them through the development and delivery of your presentation materials
- Learn how to be open, warm, approachable, and most of all, believable
- Learn how to professionally handle the “trouble makers” in the audience
- Learn how to answer tough questions, and when to say “I don’t know”
- Learn the essential platform skills that make the difference for professionals in the field

Your Participation:

Yes, your participation! This is a training class, not merely education. To learn these essential skills best, you must practice them. And, that’s exactly what we will do in this session. You will select a topic. You will prepare a 5 to 10-minute presentation using multimedia tools and materials. You will give your presentation to the class and/or the instructors. And, you will have it all on videotape for your own critique after the session.

Don’t let this scare you away. It is actually fun. And we guarantee that you will walk away with a new confidence in both yourself and your own presentation skills and abilities. That’s a win-win for you and your organization: a true return-on-investment for both.

Course Agenda:

I. Developing Professional Presentation and Training Materials
- Determining the presentation objectives
- Developing a results-oriented approach
- Establishing and maintaining focus
- Anticipating questions and answering them in your presentation
- Setting the target for the presentation
- Developing the materials – purpose, movement, and color
- Tools and techniques for effective presentation and training materials
- The three rules of every visual
- Using computers to build and deliver the script

II. Preparing Yourself for the Presentation
- Key preparation techniques to ensure that your are ready
- The 25 point checklist to test your presentation skills
- Rehearsal
- The room, the equipment, the audience, and you
- You…your attire, your body, your voice

III. Show Time! You’re On Stage
- The first 90 seconds…setting the stage for success
- Overcoming nervousness and fear…”never let them see you sweat”
- Body language…yours!
- Podium are poison, lecterns are lethal
- Creating warmth and trust
- Effective use of your voice
- Reading the audience…eyes, body, language, verbals
- Communicating with your audience
- Talk to individuals
- Changing on the fly
- Answering questions in a way that saves the day
- What “no questions” really means
- Dealing with negatives
- Maintaining control…it’s your show
- Delivering an effective close…the wrap-up and securing of the contract

IV. Now, It’s Your Turn
- Preparation of individual presentations
- Presentation of individual presentations
- Instructors’ comments

Study Materials:

Each attendee will receive Professional Presentation Skills for Project Managers, a valuable reference manual filled with techniques, helpful hints, tools, and strategies for implementing world-class project management processes within your organization. The manual provides you with the details of the seminar in a convenient format that facilitates note taking, and serves as a handy reference guide for later use. The manual is printed in color to demonstrate the impact of color in professional presentations. These professionally prepared materials make an excellent addition to your library.

Your Instructor: Michael Termini, PMP

Michael J. Termini is a certified Project Management Professional and is President and CEO of The Consulting Alliance Group, LLC, a multinational consulting and training organisation specialising in the fields of strategic planning, strategic supply-side management, strategic project management, and numerous engineering and technical disciplines. An exceptionally talented author, consultant, lecturer, and senior executive, Mr. Termini has demonstrated an expansive, exemplary record of achievement in positions up to and including president and chief executive officer levels for both public and private sector corporations. A highly accomplished business executive and management consultant, Mr. Termini has successfully combined over 30 years of pragmatic business experience with a solid academic base of knowledge to formulate and implement effective operational strategies that have dynamically and profitably expanded each organisation under his leadership. An astute problem solver and decision maker with an innate talent for absorption and analysis of situational dynamics, Mr. Termini has consistently produced outstanding results for both his public and private sector clients. His extensive international experience and success in mergers, acquisitions, facility start-ups, and supply base development have led to his recognition as a conspicuous player in the European and Latin American markets.

An internationally recognised lecturer and author, Mr. Termini conducts over 50 training classes annually for many of the major US universities and trade associations, as well as for his client base of Fortune 500 organisations. In addition, Mr. Termini conducts global satellite training through NTU to sites in both the domestic and international venues on far ranging topics such as strategic planning, strategic project management, organisational transformation strategies, innovation, and management skills for technical professionals, to name just a few.

Mr. Termini holds an MBA in marketing and finance, and a BS in aerospace engineering from the University of Missouri. He is an author of works on strategic planning, strategic supply-side management, administrative cycle time management, project and advanced project management techniques, risk management, concurrent engineering, agile manufacturing, and business process reengineering. His book, The New Manufacturing Engineer - Coming of Age in an Agile Environment, hit SME's bestseller's list shortly after its release in 1997. His book, Strategic Project Management - tools and techniques for planning, decision-making, and implementation, also reached SME’s bestseller’s list soon after its publication in June, 1999. His latest book, Management Skills for Engineers and Other Technical Professionals, is due for release this year. In addition, Mr. Termini is an active member of Who’s Who among America’s Executives.

Cost: US$795... we accept Mastercard, VISA, and American Express or Company Cheque in US or TT
Discounts: Groups of 5 or more receive US$50 off per person; Returning Students receive 5% discount

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