EPO training
As the diagram above shows, our expertise can be divided into three main areas that are all closely related. When designing modules with you, we can include elements from all three to create a programme that suits your specific needs.
Presentation technique
The power of body language
This training introduces participants to rhetorical tools that will help them master a natural, convincing body language. Participants learn to identify their own personal strengths and work to improve them. During exercises, participants also learn how to provide feedback to presentations, which will improve the long-term training culture of the group. Rather than seeking to instruct participants to present in a uniform way, this module gives the participants the tools they need to identify their own individual strengths and to develop an authentic presentation style.
Handling nervousness
Standing in front of an audience that is waiting for you to give a presentation makes most people nervous to some extent. But while being nervous is natural, it is not, as we often hear, necessary for giving a good presentation. Nervousness typically manifests itself in the form of negative thoughts about your presentation. During this module, participants are introduced to methods for shifting their focus away from their negative thoughts and onto the presentation they are fully prepared to give.
Credibility
In a lot of organisations, there is an assumption that making a good presentation only requires knowledge and experience. These are indeed essential components, but it is not enough to be credible in the eyes of their audience. In order to establish credibility, a presenter must focus on three specific things that can be improved on with practice. The participants learn how to appear credible in their PowerPoint material as well as their delivery.
Workshop facilitation
Facilitation is a skill that takes practice. During this module, participants learn how to organise and hold workshops. Participants are introduced to models they can use when organising workshops and learn what it means to be an effective facilitator. Participants receive a playbook they can refer to when designing and planning workshops.
Virtual presentation technique
The emergence of the virtual meeting changes everything we know about making good presentations. The principles of effective face-to-face meetings are well-understood, and some of them can be adapted to the online environment. In other cases, we must learn entirely new ways of engaging our audience, and this is exactly what this module reveals.
A flying start
Your introduction is the key to making a good presentation. If you lose your audience early, you’re probably never going to get it back. During this module, we introduce participants to a basic, six-step method that is guaranteed to get you off to a strong start.
PowerPoint
PowerPoint design
Like it or not, the slides you show to your audience say something about the person who created them. Most presenters aren’t – nor do they need to be – designers, but, by the same token, amateurish slides suggest a lack of overall professionalism. During PowerPoint-design training, participants learn a few quick tools they can use to create slides that raise the quality of their presentations, rather than detract from it.
Storyline
Storyline and structure are essential for maximising the impact of your presentation, and they are two of the areas where you can do most to improve . During the module, participants learn various types of storyline techniques and a simple, but highly efficient, four-step approach to develop presentations with.
Storytelling
If you ask someone what they remember about a presentation, rarely do they highlight a specific fact that was communicated or an explanation of something abstract. What they remember are examples and anecdotes. Whether it is a prestigious TED talk or a mundane workplace presentation, if you want your audience to remember what you say, you need to apply the nature of a story. During this module, we train what constitutes a good example and how storytelling can be used in presentations.
Best practice PowerPoint
This module serves as the backbone of all of EPO’s training programmes. It is unlike any sort of presentation-training participants will encounter elsewhere. It begins with the philosophy that most presentations are essentially ineffective. Whether the topic is a firm’s quarterly results, a status report, research results or a sales meeting, the supporting PowerPoint must meet certain, scientifically developed, standards if it is to serve its purpose. EPO is Denmark’s leading PowerPoint consultancy, and participants come away from training sessions with the tools they need to be able to create effective and impressive presentations. This is not a technical PowerPoint module – it is about communicating effectively using PowerPoint.
Credibility
In a lot of organisations, there is an assumption that making a good presentation only requires knowledge and experience. These are indeed essential components, but it is not enough to be credible in the eyes of their audience. In order to establish credibility, a presenter must focus on three specific things that can be improved on with practice. The participants learn how to appear credible in their PowerPoint material as well as their delivery.
Workshop facilitation
Facilitation is a skill that takes practice. During this module, participants learn how to organise and hold workshops. Participants are introduced to models they can use when organising workshops and learn what it means to be an effective facilitator. Participants receive a playbook they can refer to when designing and planning workshops.
Audience focus
Most presentations are more complicated than they need to be. Presenters have a tendency to provide more information than their audience can process. Presentations also tend to fall short because presenters fail to consider the audience’s perspective with internal terminology. The rhetorical pyramid identifies the five basic considerations that a presenter must take into account to make an impact.
A flying start
Your introduction is the key to making a good presentation. If you lose your audience early, you’re probably never going to get it back. During this module, we introduce participants to a basic, six-step method that is guaranteed to get you off to a strong start.
Virtual Training
Virtual readiness
Whether you are a specialist or an executive, today’s workplace requires you to be able to communicate virtually. Most people, however, only consider preparation as downloading the right program and putting on a decent headset. The reality is that being able to communicate well in a virtual environment and increasing the quality of the outcome requires a lot of extra preparation and attention to detail.
When to go virtual?
With the exception of certain, exceedingly rare, situations (like a pandemic, for instance), the decision about whether to hold a virtual meeting requires a thorough understanding of the strengths and weakness of various methods of communication. During this module, participants are introduced to seven factors that can influence whether you move your meeting online, and what you need to watch out for if you ultimately do.
10 virtual principles
Our 10 virtual principles are based on the findings of scientific studies of how people interact during online meetings and our own extensive experience with the format in practice. Our 10 principles are proven to improve virtual presentations, and this module teaches participants how they can be applied to any type of virtual interaction.
Effective virtual meetings
In our book, The Skype is the Limit, we suggest a new approach to holding virtual meetings and presentations. Participants in this module are introduced to this approach, which we believe allows facilitators and presenters to share complicated information in a far more effective manner than simply by paging through a pile of PowerPoint slides, as has become the norm. Firms that have rolled out the approach in their organisation report seeing results from one day to the next.
Audience focus
Most presentations are more complicated than they need to be. Presenters have a tendency to provide more information than their audience can process. Presentations also tend to fall short because presenters fail to consider the audience’s perspective with internal terminology. The rhetorical pyramid identifies the five basic considerations that a presenter must take into account to make an impact.
Virtual presentation technique
The emergence of the virtual meeting changes everything we know about making good presentations. The principles of effective face-to-face meetings are well-understood, and some of them can be adapted to the online environment. In other cases, we must learn entirely new ways of engaging our audience, and this is exactly what this module reveals.
A flying start
Your introduction is the key to making a good presentation. If you lose your audience early, you’re probably never going to get it back. During this module, we introduce participants to a basic, six-step method that is guaranteed to get you off to a strong start.
