Discover essential presentation techniques

Need to deliver an important presentation at work?

On this two-week course, you’ll discover techniques to organise your ideas, communicate a cohesive message, and identify the right tools to deliver your presentation.

Whether you’re presenting in an interview, meeting, or with customers, you’ll learn how to clearly articulate your ideas.

Improve your storytelling techniques and calm your presentation nerves

You’ll identify the tools and techniques you can use to build your confidence and improve your presentation.

You’ll learn storytelling skills to create a memorable presentation and discover mindfulness tips for managing your nerves so you can deliver your message with ease.

To help improve your delivery style, you’ll learn how to create effective slides that support your message in what could be a high-stakes situation.

Learn from industry professionals and the University of Leeds

Supported by experts, you’ll gain top insights into what makes a standout presentation.

By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to take complicated information and turn it into a clear and confident presentation.

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Skip to 0 minutes and 6 seconds Adeseye Lowal-Solarin: How do you create a memorable presentation? What can you do to manage your nerves when delivering to the audience? This course will help you find out how. Presenting your Work with Impact is one of three courses exploring collaboration, communication, and remote work. From exploring storytelling techniques, to tips on managing your nerves through mindfulness, you will hear from industry professionals about improving performance. And learn how to communicate with confidence. This course is part of our portfolio of professional and digital skills courses from the University of Leeds, in association with the Institute of Coding.

Skip to 0 minutes and 46 seconds Whether you’re new to the world of work or forging a new career for yourself, we look forward to sharing your journey into the fast-moving digital space. Join us online now.

What topics will you cover?

Storytelling in presentations
Creating stories and narratives
Creating slide decks to support presentations
Exploring mindfulness techniques for self management
Practising presentation delivery techniques
Applying presentation skills to your own presentation

When would you like to start?

Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.

Available now

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Explore how storytelling techniques can be used to communicate an idea
Apply the art and science of crafting content
Develop a visually-led deck
Explore mindfulness techniques to communicate with confidence
Apply presenting and delivery techniques
Reflect on the development of skills in the course

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for people who have some digital skills but would like to build on them. You may be looking to improve your career prospects or you are established in your career and want to boost your confidence in using digital technology in the workplace.

Who will you learn with?

Jennifer Rosen

Hi! I'm a Lead Educator for a few of the Future Learn courses. I'm a communications specialist and filmmaker. I'm also a certified integrative health coach and yoga teacher.

Who developed the course?

University of Leeds

As one of the UK’s largest research-based universities, the University of Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and a centre of excellence for teaching.

Click Start

This course is part of Click Start, a nationwide training programme developed by the Institute of Coding (IoC) , a national collaboration of universities, employers and charities and funded by Nominet – the public benefit company and guardians of the .UK namespace.

Institute of Coding

The Institute of Coding (IoC) is a national collaboration of employers, universities, and charities, on a mission to provide people from all walks of life with access to digital learning and career opportunities.

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What's included?

University of Leeds are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:

Unlimited access to this course

Includes any articles, videos, peer reviews and quizzes

Tests to validate your learning

A PDF Certificate of Achievement to prove your success when you’re eligible

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate

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