BUILD INFLUENCE & DRIVE IMPACT
Presentation Skills Training
Learn how to present your ideas powerfully and persuasively, without relying on slides so you can engage and influence your audience with confidence.
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Your Team Knows What to Say, But Struggles When Saying It
The three most common problems people have when presenting and speaking in public are:
19% say they lack influence
22% don’t think they are engaging
53% of people report lacking confidence
My Presentation Skills course equips your team with the skills they need to become engaging and influential presenters.
The Impact of Poor presentation skills
Poor presentation skills from the front of the room show in a range of ways including:
People reading slides to the room
People speaking super fast
Obvious nervousness
Speakers delivering a data dump
Staff taking to long to prepare simple presentations - and killing productivity
Smart people not speaking up in meetings
These issues cause big problems for your business. The first is cost. The opportunity cost of bringing your team together can be significant. If those speaking are boring, the audience won’t remember the message and it will have been a waste of everybody’s time.
The second is confidence. You want your leaders and experts to feel confident when they stand to speak. When speaking, it’s their job to be a leader. They need to be engaging. If they are not, the audience will pull out their phone and engage elsewhere. If the speakers are boring, the audience will be bored, and no one has ever been bored into buying.
The final cost is reputation in the marketplace. When pitching for business, it’s critical that those presenting are engaging. If they aren’t, it becomes hard work for the audience to listen and pay attention. This makes selling harder than it needs to be.
THE SOLUTION
My Presentation Skills program fixes these problems. Ideal for sales teams, leaders and industry influencers who need to impact the market, this program helps position your team as thought leaders who can engage their audiences and influence their way of thinking.
The Art of Influence is Three-Fold
The Speaker. The person at the front of the room. Do you know your message? How do you get in the right mindset and control your nerves? How do you position yourself as a leader others will listen to?
The Message. What are you going to say? What structure will you use if you are selling an idea or product, as opposed to inducting a new member into your team? How do you tell stories? How do you bring dry data to life? When should you use slides, and when do you leave them out?
The Audience. The people in the room. Who are they? What do they want? When you know what their interests are, you can put the right wrapping around your message so they want to open it and listen.
When you focus on all three elements, Speaker, Message and Audience, you connect with your audience in a manner that is congruent with who you are, and with a currency the audience cares about. This makes presenting easy to prepare, easy to deliver, and easy for the audience to receive.
This Presentation Skills Course Will Give You:
Processes to eliminate nervousness
Techniques to build engagement with any audience
Strategies to increase influence
A step-by-step plan for creating engaging presentations
Effective ways to use PowerPoint for impact
Strategies for handling questions
A process for thinking on the spot
A hard copy of my book 'How to Write a 10-Minute Presentation in Under 2 Minutes'
