Presentation as a Management Tool


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
A major part of your job description as a business professional or manager is to run meetings, coordinate group think tanks, facilitate training sessions, and hold group discussions. Each task has its own set of unique challenges. This course is designed to show the procedures to follow to properly conduct a meeting. You'll also learn how to strategise training sessions to maximise the participants' learning benefit, as well as the techniques you'll need to facilitate a group discussion effectively. Finally, it will show you how to use presentation methods in presenting problem-solving discussions.

Target Audience
Experienced business professionals and managers

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Conducting a Meeting

  • recognise the value of using presentation skills in conducting a meeting.
  • identify the pre-meeting strategies that contribute to a successful meeting.
  • identify the success-building actions to take during meetings.
  • select post-meeting tactics that add to the effectiveness of presentations.

    • Training for Success

  • recognise the value of training.
  • identify the process for evaluating training needs.
  • identify the components of an effective training plan.
  • identify the procedures required to do a training presentation.

    • Gaining through Group Facilitation

  • recognise the value and benefits of group facilitation.
  • identify the characteristics of facilitation.
  • identify the basic qualities and skills of a facilitator.
  • categorise group members' behaviour as functional, dysfunctional or neutralising.

    • Presenting in Problem-solving Discussions

  • recognise the value of facilitation skills in problem-solving discussions.
  • identify the missing steps required for group problem solving in a given scenario.
  • identify ways to demonstrate leadership roles within problem-solving groups.
  • identify the steps required to produce an action plan.

    • Course Number:
    COMM8326