Beyond the Basics: Powerful Presentation Skills to Make the Mundane Compelling. 

 

Whether the goal is to make sales, develop rapport with customers, or persuade an audience, the ability to present your ideas in a compelling manner that calls people to action is essential to career success. This workshop is designed to help you communicate with more confidence, persuasion, and in a manner that creates a powerful human bond between presenter and listener.  

You’ll learn:

 

•      The “psychology” of successful presenting.
•   How it’s an inner game: what’s going on in the mind of the presenter  makes all the difference in his/her success.
•   How your self-concept regulates your performance.
•   To unearth any self-defeating attitudes and replace them with positive  expectations.
•   Way’s to boost your self-confidence and self-esteem.
•   To use visualization to put yourself in a positive frame of mind.
•  How to deal with trembling hands, butterflies, and other nervous  symptoms.
•  Transform the emotion of fear and anxiety into enthusiasm.  

•  Advanced “Mind Mapping” techniques to structure, organize and recall the content of your presentation.

•  Waking up the audience and keeping them interested.
•        Eliminating monotones.
•        Put enthusiasm and energy into the voice.
•        Use proper pacing and vocal variety.
•        The power of proper pausing.
•        Incorporate advanced breathing techniques to maximize
     the quality of voice and perception of confidence.
•        Understand how using vivid, emotional, and imaginative images can
     influence the audience and their decisions.
•        Advanced verbal filler (uh, you know, like) eliminators.
•        Incorporating humor into your presentation.

•       Creating a human bond with the audience.

•        Techniques to overcome the internal objections to opening yourself up
     and divulging personal information.
•        When to open yourself up and when not to.
•        How to develop rapport with your audience and use common
     experiences.
•        Mention what you know they care about and demonstrate that you care    enough to understand their situation.
•        Understand the powerful effect of smiling.
•        The best ways to maintain direct but appropriate eye contact.

•        Using stories
•  Being memorable: why people only remember the stories you tell them and not the “meat” of the presentation.
•  The best ways to use personal stories that effectively make your points
  and create an emotional bond with your audience.
•  How to find your own stories.
• How to make your stories funny. 
  

•       Being persuasive and compelling:
•  The secrets of the sales masters.
•  Understand enthusiasm- the transfer your enthusiasm about your product or service into the heart or mind of the other person.
•  Show the audience what it cost’s them if no action is taken.
•  How to call the audience to action.

•  Video taping and expert analaysis also available

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