Speak Like A Leader - Public Speaking & Presentation Skills

This program teaches participants how to Speak Like a Leader & less like a technical expert, a trainer, or a sales representative. Designed for leaders (CEOs, presidents, senior executives, business owners, self-employed entrepreneurs) & for managers...

Course Outline

This program teaches participants how to Speak Like a Leader and less like a technical expert, a trainer, or a sales representative.

Audiences

This program is designed for leaders (CEOs, presidents, senior level executives, business owners, self-employed entrepreneurs) and for managers who are being groomed (or who are grooming themselves) for leadership positions.

Secrets To An Interesting Presentation

To become successful, hard work and experience are important, but they can take a person only so far. To be a leader in an industry or profession, you must be ready to assume a speaking role. In survey after survey, the number-one skill for leaders is communication.

Attendees will learn:

    * The strategies and techniques to speaking like a leader
    * How to instantly focus the room with a powerful presence
    * Tips for developing audience-focused speeches and presentations that win buy-in

This program includes a lecture-only seminar in the morning. Then the participants will be asked to deliver two presentations.

Each presentation will focus on further developing: stronger verbal communication skills, structure, building persuasive arguments, closing, style, humor and timing. Participants will receive coaching in a group environment, with specific feedback on areas for improvement.

Partial topics covered:

How to Persuade and Influence Your Audience
    * Match material to human attention patterns
    * Answer the one question that matters most to an audience
    * Reduce nervousness and be a more confident speaker
    * Five steps to focus the room - every time
    * Learn breathing and relaxation techniques
    * Improve listener buy-in and close the sale
    * Gain a blueprint to quickly design any presentation
    * Learn to use evidence, logic, emotion and stories
    * Key words that tap into motivation patterns
    * Present persuasively, clearly and concisely
    * Increase your confidence and self-esteem

Delivering Dynamic Presentations
    * Learn to be more interesting when you present
    * Learn to use movement and gestures to influence
    * Create dynamic introductions and conclusions
    * Move your audience to action
    * Dramatically improve your presentations through storytelling
    * Persuade more skillfully by using metaphors and visual images
    * Learn powerful techniques for question-and-answer sessions
    * Speak to be remembered and repeated
    * Create and deliver a presentation that is on target
    * Speak as an authority
    * Control fear when speaking and presenting
   

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

Certificates offered

Cancellation Policy

All sales are final, cancellations more than 72 hours in advance will receive a credit to be used towards a future training class.

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We would have liked if the course covered Outlook as well as the other Office programs. In our first 2 online classes, there were problems with the audio and the teacher would sometimes cut out, or fast forward, and she could barely hear us at all so all quesitons had to be typed in the chat.

Reviewed by Jennifer P. 2011