Present with Impact Training

In the digital age, presenting can become a mass of data within a mass of slides. Indeed, the problem of lots of slides is made worse by the modern problem of lots of data.

This worsening of presenting potential is damaging for the business aims of presenting. Presentation aims can range from decision making, to sharing knowledge so new meaning and ideas flourish, or presenting to communicate expertise, or performance KPIs.

Our QA point of view on presenting is it presenting style and content needs to be fit for the modern digital age.

As customers become more demanding, environments more uncertain, ambiguous and complex, and organisations more agile and data driven to meet these demands, presentations need to reflect this high performing way of working.

Presentations need to tell a story; a story backed by data and insights drawn from the data. For agility to shine through, presentations need to integrate multiple perspectives.

If the aim is decision making, the have all functional areas been represented and are insight combining data from those perspectives?

If new meaning making is the aim, can all stakeholders access the language of the presentation?

If communicating performance is the aim, are the performance figures understandable in terms of the broader organisational and sectoral context?

Often the emphasis of presenting courses can be confidence and style of the presenter. Whilst a worthy case and included in this course, we have a dual focus on presenter and business value of the presentation.

Asking learners to track their presenting back to business value allows the presentation to be refined and gives the presenter the confidence to present.

If an audit trail of data to insights to recommendations can be developed … or an audit trail from technical language to business language to performance can be developed… or SME expertise to new and developing ideas can be developed that are customer centric – then you have a presentation that has impact.

It has impact because the value to the organisation is clear.Presenting with impact is about communicating to drive value.

It is focused on context by providing the opportunity to present a business agenda with feedback from peers and the facilitator, and to present again, demonstrating the improvement in communicating the business aim and value.