Domain:
Communications & Stakeholder Engagement
Who Should Attend:
You are a Singapore Public Officer who wants to gain a better understanding of presentations and improving your ability in presentation.
Programme Overview
As a public officer, preparing and giving presentations could be an important part of your work and this could range from impromptu sharing of your opinions to official presentations in team or department meetings.
In this programme, you will learn techniques of translating thoughts to speech and speaking confidently, and the fundamentals of preparing and delivering presentations to different audience effectively. You will acquire and apply key principles and techniques to be more confident when speaking and delivering presentations, conveying messages across clearly with structure, and managing questions during presentations. You will also experience peer learning as you will apply your newly acquired presentation skills in the class.
There will be pre-programme e-learning and presentation practices in this course.
Learning Outcomes
- Structure thoughts into writing for presentations
- Deliver clear and effective messages to various situations, including presentations
- Speak confidently with flow
- Employ anxiety management strategies in presentations
- Understand the differences between face-to-face and virtual presentations
- Apply the skills and techniques to presentations
- Manage the Question-and Answer segment professionally
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This is a two-day blended programme.
Pre-programme E-learning
- Managing Presentation Anxiety
- "Method” framework for organising thoughts and ideas
- Assignment
- Considerations for both In-Person and Virtual Presentations
Day 1 (Virtual Zoom Class)
Module 1 – Managing Presentation Anxiety and Developing Confidence
Module 2 – Action Based Learning Activity: Structuring Thoughts to Speech
Module 3 – Introducing the concepts of presentation structure and organisation of ideas
Module 4 – The Fundamentals of Effective Non-Verbal Communication
Module 5 – Presentation Practice: The Delivery
Mid-Programme E-learning
Preparing and Handling the Q&A Segment
Day 2 (In-person Class at Civil Service College)
Module 1 – Techniques to Better Engage an Audience
Module 2 – Preparing and Handling the Q&A Segment and Practice activity
Module 3 – Final Individual Presentations and Presentation Skills Assessment Exercise using video playback