Presentation & speaking skills
Learn the mechanics and rhetoric to win any audience
Persuasive Presentations
This workshop is designed especially for people who need to present in front of a multicultural group. However, the techniques we will study are universal and will apply to any business culture.
The training is rather hands-on “technical” in nature: we will practice the nuances of vocal usage, non-verbal language and rhetorical techniques, all designed to attract the audience, focus them where we want, and keep their attention. With these techniques and a healthy dose of self-control, anyone can learn how to be confident and persuasive in front of a group, even those with stage-fright.
The trainer focuses on revealing specific points for individual improvement and repeating correct behaviors. After completing this workshop, you will have all the tools necessary to speak confidently, persuasively, and motivate your audience to action.
Program Benefits
Enhanced self-confidence of speakers by proper preparation, calming the nerves, increased concentration and rhetorical skills. The goal is to appear pleasant, authoritative and, thereby, motivating. You will learn more than just public speaking; you will be a better communicator overall.
Program Contents
- Individual video-camera work with analysis and feedback
- Vocal hygiene and the 4 vocal elements of persuasive speech: Inflection, Intonation, Pauses, Word emphasis
- Introduction and Conclusion — the most important parts of your speech
- How to build rapport and credibility with your audience
- Gaining and keeping audience attention
- Visual aids: how to use them and how not to!
- Body language — how to emphasize and/or play down your points to maintain focus and rapport
- Effective words and phrases used in presentations
- How to handle a hostile audience
- How to handle audience questions
- Overcoming nerves: cure the jitters in 1 minute!
- Optional third day follow up (usually 1-6 months later): making sure all skills have been maintained, plus expanded techniques for rhetoric and persuasion
Training Methods
This is a highly interactive workshop, training the verbal and non-verbal skills necessary to deliver any kind of presentation (informative or persuasive). Techniques and activities will demonstrate and practice everything needed to perform a public-speaking task — and to make it compelling. Participants give short presentations on camera, with subsequent trainer analysis, peer feedback, and corrections. The second round of presentations invariably reveal clear improvement, often significant.
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