Mastering Presentations

Course Length: 2 days

Mastering Presentations is a two-day advanced skill-building course for technical professionals who are called upon to make formal or informal presentations or communicate complex data. The ability to present information and ideas effectively is clearly a critical success factor in business. The challenge becomes more difficult when dealing with highly technical information or when communicating to diverse audiences, knowledge levels, and technical expertise. The emphasis of this course is on identifying and developing each participant's individual communication style.

Highlights:

  • 10 major learning exercises (video-recorded; 6 interactively coached)
  • Practice developing and delivering a complete 5-7 minute presentation, including 2-5 PowerPoint slides
  • Best practices for online presenting
  • A personal DVD for each participant with eight to 10 of his/her own presentations (up to 30 minutes)
  • 12-participant maximum ensures personalized attention and coaching
  • Facilitated group feedback on content clarity and memorability, presentational style, interaction & difficult questions, expectations and listener awareness issues
  • "Mastering the Art of Communication" manual
  • Customizing presentations for intended audience

Key Topics

The following issues will be addressed in depth:

Command of Behavioral Skills- comprehensive conceptual coverage is reinforced with 6 interactively-coached video practice opportunities. Students will learn to do the following:

  • Conquer stage fright
  • Project confidence and conviction
  • Use effective eye contact and gestures
  • Eliminate distracting idiosyncrasies

Organize Content for Clarity & Impact

  • Customize presentation for intended audience
  • Optimize opening and closing statements
  • Make key information memorable
  • Adjust detail and technical levels for various listeners
  • Ensure clarity of key information or requested action
  • Use humor, quotes and data effectively
  • Create and use visual support - complete module on PowerPoint design and delivery, including dedicated, interactively-coached and videotaped exercise
  • Use notes skillfully

Manage Audience Interaction

  • Cultivate/encourage interaction
  • Handle difficult questions and challenges, using the "ART" model
  • Defuse hostility
  • Demonstrate good listening skills
  • Keep conversation moving in a seamless way
  • Stay on track, and reinforce key messages
  • Generate energy, emotion & enthusiasm

Cultivate Listener Awareness

  • Practice using the "DNA" (Demographics, Needs, Attitudes) analysis model to appropriately build presentation for target audience
  • Understand communication styles

Instructors

 Corine Anders

CORINE ANDERS has experience in training, facilitating, coaching, public speaking, seminar design and customization, sales and management. Over the past 20 years, she has trained and consulted with thousands of executives, managers, sales people, technicians, support staff and new recruits.

Her expertise is wide sweeping. It includes high stakes presentations, private consultations, business writing, sales communication, interviewing and management skills. Corine played a key role in leadership development programs at the General Electric - Jack Welch Education Center, Cisco Systems, UBS Warburg, and Yale University. She has worked with the United Nations and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. She has conducted seminars across the United States, Europe, Canada and Mexico.


 Barbara Brocklebank

BARBARA BROCKLEBANK has over 15 years experience as a consultant and corporate trainer. Barbara works with executives at all levels helping groups and individuals prepare for important presentations and business communications. She has conducted hundreds of skills development programs for a diverse group of industries including: technology, financial, health care, pharmaceutical, legal, scientific and consumer products.

She believes that compelling speakers are created, not born and that all executives can improve their natural speaking style to inform, motivate or inspire their audiences.


 Michael Heim

MICHAEL HEIM has been a trainer, speaker, consultant and course designer in the areas of presentation skills, cultural diversity and interpersonal communication for over 17 years. He has spent several years designing and conducting programs in Presentation Skills, Interpersonal Communication Skills, Team Building, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, Cultural Diversity and Customer Service.

He has consulted for many companies including Apple Computer, AT&T, Bank of America, Pacific Bell, National Semiconductor, Cirrus Logic, Kaiser Permanente, Intel, and many other Fortune 500 companies.


 Debbie Hildebrandt

DEBBIE HILDEBRANDT provides training and coaching to individuals seeking to improve their spoken communication skills. Over the past nineteen years she has coached executives in a variety of industries including accounting and professional services, pharmaceutical, financial, health care, communications, commercial real estate, and technology. Clients include senior partners at Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, and Cushman & Wakefield. Additionally, Debbie has conducted group-training sessions at Mattel, Johnson & Johnson, Bell Atlantic, Tufts Health Plan, Fidelity, Fleet, Nextel Partners, Microsoft, Weyerhaeuser and Fujitsu. Private sessions vary from improving one-to-one communications to preparing and rehearsing a major presentation or speech. Group sessions include communication skills for meetings and presentations.

In addition to her corporate work, Debbie has been a member of the Training and Development staff at Brown University, where she designed and delivered programs on management development, presentation skills, conflict resolution and team building. While an instructor in the University of Hawaii system, she taught courses in both the speech and business education departments.

Debbie has also served as a Director for Kaplan Test Prep, an international education company, where she was responsible for statewide sales, marketing implementation and instructor training.

Debbie resides in the heart of Boston and enjoys travel and running. She holds an MBA and undergraduate degrees in both education and psychology.


 John Prince

JOHN PRINCE is an expert in personal and public communication. Since 1987, he has provided training and consulting expertise to people at all levels of the business world, from the newly hired to upper management. He has shown these individuals how to remove barriers to effective communication and enabled them to deliver their messages powerfully and effectively in public as well as in personal forums. Equally comfortable in working with small and large groups as well as with individuals, he has helped people gain the confidence and skills necessary to strengthen and improve themselves and ultimately, their organizations.

John has developed and managed training and consulting staffs and designed and delivered training programs nationally and internationally. He has worked with groups and individuals from various disciplines such as sales, marketing, administrative, customer service and management from a variety of industries, including banking, high-tech, pharmaceuticals, clothing, insurance, entertainment and public utilities.

John has also held positions in the hospitality industry and as an outside salesperson. He has served as a captain in the United States Air Force and worked in the Theater as well as Radio. He holds a B.A. in Spanish from Grove City College in Pennsylvania and currently resides in Sausalito, California.


 Peter Rosselli

PETER ROSSELLI has been a speaker, consultant, trainer and course designer in the areas of presentation skills and interpersonal communication for over 20 years. As a program manager for Decker Communications, a recognized leader in the Communications Consulting industry, Peter designed curricula and trained a staff of thirty-five consultants to deliver training programs internationally.

He has spent several years designing and conducting programs in Presentation Skills, Interpersonal Communication Skills, Team Building, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, Cultural Diversity and Customer Service. He has consulted for many companies including Apple Computer, AT&T, Bank of America, Pacific Bell, National Semiconductor, Cirrus Logic, Kaiser Permanente and Intel.


 Lora Stenard

LORA STENARD has over 20 years experience as a senior executive consultant with exceptional business acumen, interpersonal skills, and communication expertise.

Lora sees her mission as an opportunity to contribute to great leadership, the development of high performance teams, and the production of outstanding results for corporations. She provides coaching and training in spoken communications skills to professionals and executives at the CEO level. She has coached and trained thousands of people helping them develop and enhance their communications skills in presentations, sales situations, and business communications. She has helped them recognize their own personal style, enabling them to present themselves in a genuine, confident and compelling way.

Ms. Stenard spent over eleven years with Decker Communications as the Director of Training and a senior executive consultant designing and developing programs.


Onsite Delivery

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