TC 342 - Professional Presentation Techniques

• Use rhetorical strategies of audience analysis and storytelling to create high-stakes presentations
• Identify several patterns for organization
• Apply effective design techniques to maximize presentation effect

• Fundamentals of public speaking: language, voice, diction, gestures, and body movement
• Basic understanding of organization, development, support, and delivery of a chosen topic within a specific time limit
• Familiarity with techniques for reducing speech anxiety

• Paradigm shift in professional presentation techniques: Presentation Zen (Garr Reynolds), Made to Stick (Heath), Presentation secrets of Steve Jobs, Duarte design (4 classes)
• Thinking like a designer. Creating ideas, not slides (2 classes)
• Why resonate: rhetorical appeals, audience analysis, and storytelling (2 classes)
• Lessons from myths and movies: story, hero, journey (4 classes)
• Creating diagrams and displaying data (4 classes)
• Using visual elements: background, color, text, and images (4 classes)
• Creating movement (2 classes)
• Governing with templates and interacting with slides/visual aids (2 classes)
• Create a S.T.A.R. and P.U.N.C.H. moments (2 classes)
• The five theses of the power of a presentation (2 classes)
• Boardroom vs Ballroom Presentations (4 classes)