Live workshopWorkforce Development training for teams
Presentation Skills for the Workplace
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Presentation Skills for the Workplace
- Duration
- Half Day (4 hrs)
- Tuition
- $395.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
The slides were fine. The room still didn't move.
A presentation is one of the most expensive things your organization does. Twelve people in a room for an hour is twelve hours of payroll, and most of them leave without a decision. That is not a slide design problem.
This workshop treats presenting as structure and delivery rather than confidence. Confidence is a result, not a technique. Participants learn to build toward a single ask, cut everything that does not serve it, deliver without hiding behind the deck, and handle the question that derails most presenters.
HR and learning and development leaders use it for teams that present to executives, boards, funders, or clients, where the presentation often is the decision. Operations managers use it where capable people undersell good work. This covers you in the room; the deck itself is Microsoft PowerPoint training. Content and scenarios are built from the presentations your team actually gives.
Content, scenarios, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This workshop is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other workforce development workshops for teams.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led half-day workshop
- Practice presenting on your feet, with feedback, using your own material
- Structural frameworks built around a single clear ask
- Techniques for handling hard questions, interruptions, and going off-script
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
The session opens with the ask, because a presentation without one is a status update wearing a costume. Participants identify what they need the room to decide, then build backward from it. Most discover half their material was there to prove they had done the work rather than to move the decision.
The middle is structure and delivery. Participants learn to open in a way that earns the next ninety seconds, sequence so a distracted listener can rejoin at any point, and deliver without reading. They practice on their feet, with feedback, using their own material rather than a canned exercise.
The last stretch is the part most training skips: what happens when it goes wrong. The hostile question, the executive who interrupts on slide two, the technical failure, the answer you do not have. Participants practice each, and learn to close on a decision rather than let a presentation trail into nothing.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Identify the single ask and build the presentation backward from it
- Open in a way that earns a busy room's attention
- Sequence content so a distracted listener can rejoin at any point
- Deliver without reading from your slides
- Handle hostile questions, interruptions, and answers you do not have
- Close on a decision rather than trailing off
- Cut material that does not serve the ask
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop. It is appropriate for professionals at all experience levels. Teams that also need to build the slides themselves can pair it with our Microsoft PowerPoint training.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$395.00 per participant
Presentation Skills for the Workplace is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $395 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
Colorado state agencies, higher education institutions, cities, counties, school districts, and certified nonprofits may purchase this course directly through our State of Colorado Price Agreement. Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Workforce Development training
Workforce development training for employees
The skills that make teams work are rarely taught: clear writing, communication, time management, prioritization, customer service, handling conflict, and presenting with confidence. DWC workforce development workshops teach them live, with practice built from your workplace.
Use them as an onboarding series for new hires, a refresher for a team under pressure, or a development step for employees who are ready for more.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Can these workshops support onboarding for new hires?
Yes. Communication, time management, customer service, and business writing workshops can be combined into an onboarding series for new employees.
Do you offer customer service training for employees?
Yes. Customer Service Excellence and Quality Assurance and Service Excellence are built for front-line and support teams, with scenarios drawn from your own customers.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.