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Designing and Delivering Engaging Business Presentations

Improving your design and delivery of presentations to increase audience engagement

Created byGarth Sheriff
IntermediateUpdated May 18, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleHow to understand your audience and what’s in it for them (WIIFT)
  • check_circleWhat goes wrong with presentation design?
  • check_circleApplying the latest research in instructional design to improve your presentation including storytelling techniques.
  • check_circleUnderstanding the challenges of public speaking

About This Course

Delivering impactful business presentations requires more than just confidence—it requires smart design and strategic delivery. In this engaging, research-based program, you'll learn how to craft presentations that inform, persuade, and resonate with your audience. The first half focuses on the latest insights from instructional design research, helping you build content and visual aids that support and strengthen your message.

The second half equips you with SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) tips and tools to enhance your presentation delivery, from body language and pacing to audience engagement techniques. Whether you're new to presenting or looking to sharpen your skills, this course provides actionable guidance to elevate your impact in any business setting.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Apply instructional design research principles to build presentation content and visual aids that support and strengthen their message.
  2. Structure presentations that effectively inform, persuade, and resonate with a target audience.
  3. Use SMART tips and tools to enhance delivery through body language, pacing, and audience engagement techniques.
  4. Demonstrate greater confidence and strategic intentionality when presenting in any business setting.

Course Content

2 activities • 2 videos • duration: 43m

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Designing effective presentations-Part11 videos • 21 min
  • videocamDesigning engaging presentations
    Duration 21:05
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Delivering engaging presentations-Part11 videos • 22 min

Your Instructor

Garth Sheriff

Founder of Sheriff Consulting

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I am the founder of Sheriff Consulting which specializes in the development and delivery of accounting, auditing and foundational skill courses and workshops. Teaching and working with professionals in diverse and dynamic learning environments has been my passion and experience for over 10 years. As a qualified Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and U.S. Certified Public Accountant (CPA), I work with finance and accounting professionals in both the U.S. and Canada to meet their training and development needs. My goal has always been to create an engaging and interactive learning environment. To help my own path of continual improvement in achieving this goal, I have also received training and worked as a professional actor. I am a member of ACTRA (the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists) and a graduate in improvisation from the Second City Training Centre. http://sheriffconsulting.com/

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.5 out of 5
Student's Choice
103 reviews
  • DG
    Denise G.
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    Great presenter!

  • BD
    BEVERLEY D.
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    easy to follow, obvious note points, engaging, and happily, useful :)

  • AR
    Antonio R.
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    Very informative.

  • KL
    Kris L.
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    Great tips for engaging the audience

Frequently Asked Questions

We are a registered provider with 300+ associations and regulatory bodies worldwide. We operate across 27 global markets including Canada, the US, Australia, and the UK. Every course page clearly displays its specific accreditations. Upon completion, you receive a professional certificate that can be validated online. Our certificates include all necessary accreditation details, credit hours, and completion dates, and are formatted specifically to meet the submission requirements of most global regulatory bodies.

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