Get Noticed & Promoted - Excellence in Presentation Skills - Open Workshop

Get Noticed & Promoted
Attention-Grabbing Presentation Skills
Full Day Workshop:

Get Noticed & Promoted!

• Have You Set Your Personal Development Goal For 2012?
• Do You Need PDU's or CM Points etc.?

Workshop Primary Benefits:

• Reduce presentation development time by over 50%
• Deliver information audiences grasp
• Convince people to agree and act
• Present with confidence
• Turn data into visual information
• Develop effective slides
• Use stories to clarify points
• Learn memorization methods
• Manage Q & A effectively

What You Will Learn:

Developing Content

• Quickly develop the outline of a presentation and get focused
• Understand the value of storyboarding your presentation
• How to find your own stories and to gather others
• Understand the power of a story and how to maximize its value
• Understand the power of dialogue in stories
• Structure your business presentations to maximize effectiveness
• Develop an effective introduction that gives you credibility
• How to open or close a speech or presentation with maximum impact
• Development of clear, smooth transitions
• Handling the Q & A session and avoiding the common pitfalls
• PowerPoint success strategies
• Humor development techniques
• Understand why jokes sometimes fail
• Deliver dry, technical information successfully with pizzazz
• On-Line tools for speech development (word tools etc.)
• Customizing your content to your audience
• Copyright photos/videos
• PowerPoint - video and photo coordination
• How to succeed with Net Meetings
• Getting the interactive audience

Delivery Skills

• Incorporate purposeful movement
• Comprehend distractions such as filler words and nervous gestures
• Use notes successfully
• Learn techniques to maximize the delivery of stories and humor
• PowerPoint - incorporating videos successfully
• Understanding the room layout - pros and cons
• Use of a microphone
• If you have a strong accent
• Using props
• Understand voice projection

Success Strategies

• Memorization techniques
• How to deliver emotional content
• How to keep an audience's attention
• Energize online Net Meetings
• Dealing with anxiety
• Maximize your voice projection
• Use group exercises in the most effective way possible
• Use the presentation style best suited for the situation
• Understand non-verbal audience feedback
• Delivering unpopular information
• When things go wrong - survival strategies
• Cost effective means to practice and hone your skills
• Room Layout - preparation and considerations
• Develop evaluation feedback forms
• Understanding cultural considerations
• Developing and delivering humor

Full Day Workshop Includes:

• Course materials
• Free 6 month membership to a Toastmasters public speaking club
• Free access to my monthly presentation skills articles & training videos
• My home phone number to answer your presentation skills questions