Date/Time
2016/12/08 to 2016/12/09 - All Day

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BRIEFING

Steve Jobs led Apple to become the world’s most profitable company not only through technological innovation but by being one of the most powerful presenters of our time. Using role play, multimedia, cooperative learning, total physical response and other accelerated learning methods, this seminar will equip staff at all levels with essential elements to deliver powerful presentations. This valuable skill is closely linked with good leadership, team motivation, influence and sales success. Whether delivering an in-house report to management or a sales pitch to a top-tier client, excellent presentation skills have a direct impact on your business’ bottom line.

BENEFITS

With two seasoned instructors, this one-day session is tailored to give each attendee individual coaching and feedback, thus ensuring behavioral change. Through this dynamic, highly-interactive session each participant will learn and put into practice the following key skills:

• Powerful Introductions
• Closing Strong
• Highlighting the key message
• Mastering Pitch, Power, and Pace of Voice
• Using Body Language to Influence
• Presenting with Confidence

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Staff of all seniority and experience who want to improve their influence, persuasion, and presentation skills should attend this seminar.

PROGRAM OUTLINE

DAY 1

PREPARING FOR A PRESENTATION

• Identifying your key message
• Identifying your audience and knowing what to do with that information
• Planning & organizing techniques – mind mapping & brainstorming
• Grouping information into key points
• Cultural Approaches to Presentations
• Structure of a good presentation

OPENING AND CLOSING YOUR PRESENTATION

• Opening Strong with the 3I’s
  • Using Stories, Quotes, Anecdotes, Facts
• Highlighting the benefit for audience
• Closing in Style with the 4S’s

GUIDING YOUR LISTENINERS

• Understand effective ways to structure your presentation though the process of ‘signposting’
• Use key expressions to help you recover from any communication issues you experience in your presentation

VISUAL POWER

• The importance of visuals to a powerful presentation
• Advantages of various types of visuals
• Learn rules of effective visuals
• Identify mistakes in the PPTs they are currently using
• Four Rules to Powerful PPT’s
• Designing PPT example

Selling your idea

5:00 PM – Day 1 Session Ends

DAY 2

ADDING POWER WITH YOUR VOICE

• Understand how to effectively apply key voice techniques such as stress, intonation, articulation
• Apply pausing techniques to sound more natural
• Develop an appropriate speaking speed when giving presentations

ADDING POWER WITH YOUR BODY

• Understand the importance of body language
• Know how to use their body to influence their message
• Know basic Do’s and Don’ts of Body Language
• Identify signals sent by the audiences Body Language
• Control signals being sent by your Body Language

INTERPRETING DATA

• Know various ways of interpreting figures
• Choose the best option for interpreting figures for the presentations they give
• Learn language associated with describing trends accurately
• To not overburden their graphs, charts, etc with needless information

ADVANCED INFLUENCE SKILLS

• Using Rhetoric to impress a point
• Using Contrast, Similes, & Illustration
• Understanding the signals that your audience sends and knowing what to do with that information
• Crafting questions to engage your audience
• Leading them to the right conclusions while overcome mental blocks

DEALING WITH QUESTIONS

• Categorizing questions
• Effectively dealing with difficult questions
• Redirecting and effectively neutralizing situations

ROLE PLAY AND VIDEO FEEDBACK

5:00 PM – Day 2 Session Ends