Dynamic Presentation Skills

In the Dynamic Presentation Skills workshop, you will learn techniques to improve the spoken messages you deliver at work, with a focus on achieving results. Participants learn how to give more memorable, dynamic talks by motivating and persuading the audience. The course emphasizes extensive practice exercises

Participants are typically videotaped for self-analysis, with instructor feedback. Developing a plan for action or improvement follows.

Benefits

You will learn to:

• Overcome typical anxieties
• Control voice and image projection
• Use visual aids
• Define message content
• Develop a presentation planning form
• Structure the delivery
• Establish eye and ear appeal
• Draw listeners in
• Eliminate emotional "deaf spots"
• Energize your presentations

Topics

Critical Communication Skills

• The oral message: your "final product"
• Overcoming typical fears
• Defining the appropriate communication
• Targeting your audience

Objectives and Strategy

• Idea significance (fact versus opinion)
• Script practice
• Vocal intonation and inflection
• Using visual aids
• Energy, vitality, gestures
• Personal appearance

Preparation Process

• Research ("frontloading")
• The mechanics and psychology of spoken messages
• Defining the tone
• Rehearsal
• Dynamics of storytelling

How to Establish Eye and Ear Appeal

• Maintaining interest
• Pacing—why, when, where to be specific
• Retaining humanity and warmth
• Interest inhibitors
• Drawing the listeners in
• Movement and posture

Delivery

• Individual videotaping sessions

Evaluation

• Self-critique
• Measuring results (response checklist)
• Barriers to two-way communication
• Emotional deaf spots
• Doing it better next time
• Videotape analysis

Who should attend

Executives, project managers, project leads, team leaders, proposal managers, engineers, sales personnel, and anyone who wants to improve their presentation skills.

Instructor

Tom Stapleton