No matter how good your idea is, if you can't present it effectively, you won't be able to sell it. This is not just any old presentations course and you may already be using PowerPoint, but ineffectively. Slides alone are not enough and too much PowerPoint puts people to sleep.

Date: Four days
Candidates: CEOs, managers, communications personnel, facilitators and consultants public, private and civil society sectors - anyone whose work depends on presenting projects and ideas to audiences
In a nutshell: No matter how good your idea is, if you can't present it effectively, you won't be able to sell it. This is not just any old presentations course and you may already be using PowerPoint, but ineffectively. Slides alone are not enough and too much PowerPoint puts people to sleep. This highly practical course, facilitated by expert communications trainers, will show you how to understand audiences and use slides strategically to take them to where you want them to be.

Course outcomes - by course end you'll be able to:
• Establish a specific objective before designing your presentation
• Understand the starting point of your audience
• Designing a presentation for maximum impact
• Calculate how to take your audience from point A to point X
• Make appropriate PowerPoint slides using graphic devices to illustrate your presentation
• Deliver a powerful presentation applying principles of voice and body language
• Captivating your audience

Venue

Date: 29 July 2008 to 01 August 2008
Location: IAJ Parktown, Johannesburg
More info: 9 Jubilee Road
Parktown
Johannesburg

Contact: Gugu Ndaba
Company name: Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ)
Telephone number: 27 11 484 1765
Email address cmtu@iaj.org.za