High-Impact Presentations with VR
Learn how to execute important presentations, then practice your delivery in self-paced and instructor-led VR training.
Enroll NowCourse overview
Online with VR
Cost: $680
60 lessons
Live Training in VR
10+ VR scenarios
English
What you will learn
How to build confidence in highly pressured environments
How to leave your audience with a message that really resonates
How to deliver presentations in difficult scenarios and settings
Deliver important presentations more effectively
High-stakes presentations require more than just basic presentation skills. They require professional-level delivery techniques and the confidence to deliver at the highest level in any business setting.
In this practical course, you'll learn by taking the focus away from what you present and instead on how you present.
You'll learn how to build confidence in highly pressured environments, how to open and close presentations convincingly, interact with a natural and composed demeanour, project confidence and enthusiasm, and how to leave your audience with a message that really resonates.
What makes this course unique?
Two parts of the course make it unique compared to other presentation courses:
- Live training in VR: Practice delivering a presentation in realistic virtual reality scenarios with a trainer in the same virtual room as you. The trainer gives you feedback and asks you questions at the end of your presentation.
- Self-paced training in VR: Practice your presentation in over 10+ VR scenarios at any time and receive AI-powered feedback on your performance.
Who should take this course?
If you're preparing for high-stakes presentations, such as presenting to senior executives, updating important clients on a project, pitching for a large contract, or speaking at high-profile engagements, then this is the course for you.
Online learning, done differently
We combine online learning with VR for a unique learning approach. At certain points throughout this High-Impact Presentations course, you'll be prompted to practice what you've learnt in VR.
Learn in online classes
Complete a series of videos, quizzes and case studies through our online platform - available to access at any time.
Practice in realistic VR
Practice what you learn in realistic VR scenarios. Delivering presentations is just like any other skill - you need to practice to improve.
Improve with feedback
Receive feedback on your performance to help identify areas you need to improve to become an effective presenter.
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Course curriculum
- Overview of the high-stakes presentations course and our VR app. We explain where to download the app and how VR can help you practice your presentations.
- Course guide and resources
- Welcome to the course
- VR and the VirtualSpeech app
- Many of us feel anxious when giving important presentations. This section provides anxiety management techniques and methods to reduce your nerves before the big presentation.
- Anxiety management techniques
- Example: Nervous presenters
- VR Preparation: Prepare a conference presentation
- VR Training: Presenting in a TEDx styled theatre
- Cognitive reframing techniques
- Audience based anxiety
- Quiz: Anxiety management
- A clear presentation structure helps your audience follow along more easily. Learn how to prepare your structure, start and end a presentation, include statistics and more.
- Why structure is important
- Monroe’s motivated sequence
- Analysing your audience
- Be in service of your audience
- How to start a presentation
- VR Preparation: Presenting to senior executives
- VR Training: Practice your presentation intro
- Example: Good and bad introductions
- Exercise: List the goals for your next presentation
- How to end a presentation
- When used effectively, nonverbal presence helps keep your audience interested in your presentation. This section covers tips for improving your body language and eye contact, which you can then practice in VR.
- 8 elements of confident body language
- Importance of eye contact
- Example: Poor body language
- VR Training: Improve your eye contact
- Quiz: Body language
- Speaking rate, pauses, volume and pitch have a great impact on your presentation. This section covers how you should deliver your content, with examples from well-known speakers.
- Average speaking rate for a presentation
- Example: Good speaking pace
- Exercises to warm up your voice
- Your vocal toolbox
- Example: Vocal range
- Using pauses in your presentation
- Are you telling a story? Giving an elevator pitch? Presenting while seated? This section explains important delivery techniques, including best practices for designing slides and using transitions.
- First impressions and credibility
- Tell a story with your presentation
- Example: Great storytelling from Jack Ma
- The art of the graceful recovery
- Presenting while seated
- VR Training: Lecture hall presentation
- Best practices for designing slides
- Transitions: words and phrases to use
- High-impact product demonstration
- Practice your presentation skills in high-stakes VR scenarios. A trainer will be in the same virtual room, providing feedback and asking questions.
- How to present to senior executives
- Presenting last minute
- Pitching to investors
- Updating important clients on a project
- Pitching for a large contract
- Speaking at high-profile engagements
- The Q&A session at the end of your presentation plays an important role in delivering your message. Learn how to handle difficult questions and then practice thinking on your feet with our VR scenario.
- Guide for handling questions after a presentation
- Handling difficult or hostile questions
- Example: Answering tough questions at a press conference
- VR Training: Impromptu presentations
- Exercise: Write down possible audience questions
VR Training: Live remote as well as self-paced training
Live remote training
Meet inside VR scenarios with a VirtualSpeech trainer for two 45 minute sessions. Practice your presentation skills in a range of scenarios, getting feedback on your performance from the trainer, who can also ask questions at the end of the presentation for a more challenging practice session. Learn more about live training
Pick any of the VR scenarios below to practice in with our trainer.
You'll receive 90 minutes of live training, split into 2 x 45 minute sessions. If you choose, one of your sessions can be with other course participants, who can provide additional feedback and pressure while practicing.
Self-paced training
Practice in our VR scenarios at your own pace, where you can load in your own slides, receive feedback on your performance from our AI system, and much more.
Conference presentation
Learn to deal with speaking anxiety in our large conference room, styled after a TEDx theatre. Receive feedback on your presentation and identify areas to improve.
Impromptu presentation skills
Practice your presentation skills with our quick-thinking impromptu scenario. Speak about the contents of a random slide for 30 seconds, before being shown the next one.
Presenting to senior executives
Present to a room of senior executives in a virtual boardroom. Receive feedback on your delivery and load in your own presentation slides to practice with.
Improve your eye contact
Track where you are looking when delivering a presentation to identify areas of the audience you are neglecting. Build a better connection with your audience.
Lecture hall presentation
Deliver a short presentation in a lecture hall styled environment. You can also practice this presentation in the live training part of the course.
Elevator Pitch
Practice your elevator pitch in a virtual elevator. You'll have 30, 60 or 90 seconds to pitch yourself, your company or your product.
Additional VR rooms for general practice
You'll also have access to these general training rooms, which you can practice presentation skills in at any point during the course. You'll find many useful features inside them, from speech analysis to listenability scores on your delivery.
Boardroom presentation
Practice a pre-prepared presentation in this small meeting room to an audience of 11 people.
Conference presentation
Deliver a conference presentation in our popular training environment to around 100 people.
Your instructor for the live training in VR
Julian Mayhew
Julian has a vast range of soft skill and system based training experience. He is CIPD qualified and uses full-cycle training methodology to design and deliver effective interventions. Julian has successfully run the 'High-Impact Presentations' course to various global clients.
Having worked for the British government overseas, he is familiar working with diverse participants in an international environment and fluent in English, Spanish and French.
350,000+
Learners in VR
4x
Faster than classroom training
6
Learning awards
Improve faster with our VR features
Our app is full of useful features to help you grow your presentation skills.
Add your presentation slides
Practice public speaking with your own slides in the virtual room with you.
Presentation analysis
Receive instant feedback on your eye contact, pace, filler words and more.
Need a VR headset?
A headset is required to use the VR training. Our live training currently runs on the Oculus Go and Oculus Quest headsets. You'll need one of these two headsets to use the live training part of the course.
Course Review
Presentation Skills Course
$680
- 5 hours of online classes
- 8 presentation case studies
- 10+ VR training scenarios
- 2 x 45 minute sessions in VR with a trainer
- Roleplay in VR with a trainer
- All VR features
- Quizzes and assessment in VR
- Earn a digital course certificate
- Flexible, self-led format
- 12 months access
VR Headset
You'll need an Oculus Go or Oculus Quest headset for the Live Training. If you don't have one, purchase one here (link to your local Amazon store).
Total: $680 USD
Buy NowBuying for a team? Click the 'Enroll Now' button and select the number of courses you require.
If you're part of an organization and would like to use your own trainer for the live training, contact us.
