Running a Design Business: Presentation Skills

Convey your ideas with confidence and clarity to get the approval needed to move your project forward.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Exercise files

1. Getting Ready to Present

• Thriving within the parameters
• Establishing the goal or purpose of your presentation
• Knowing your audience
• Choosing the ideal format
• Understanding timing
• Making the most of the location

2. Crafting a Message

• Presentation styles and storytelling
• Authority and persuasion
• Using research

3. Developing Visuals and Using Technology

• Tips for design and delivery of digital presentations
• Using boards, mockups, and prototypes
• Tips for using technology
• Effective virtual presentations

4. Delivering Effective Presentations

• Tips on nonverbal communication
• Coping with nervousness
• Refining your verbal communication

5. The Close

• Concluding your presentation
• Averting disaster and bad decisions
• Getting approval
• Facilitating a formal Q&A

Conclusion

• Ongoing learning