Powerful Presentation Skills

Top-notch presentation skills allow you to have confidence regardless of the presentation setting and, most importantly, to ensure you inform and persuade in a way that guarantees your audience is receiving the message you intend to send.

Presenting effectively means success beyond the speech given at a conference or meeting. It means talking about your company’s strengths and strategy with customers, giving an answer that diffuses a hostile question at a business meeting and persuading your vendors to provide improved service at a reasonable cost. In all these situations, and others, your success depends upon how well you present yourself, your company and your needs. Top-notch presentation skills allow you to have confidence regardless of the presentation setting and, most importantly, to ensure you inform and persuade in a way that guarantees your audience is receiving the message you intend to send.

Your employees may need theses skills if:

• Presentations often take longer than expected without achieving their goals.
• Audience members seem distracted soon after a presentation has begun.
• Presenters lack the confidence and poise needed to interact with customers well.
• Audience members take over any discussion or presentations.
• Nervousness and nervous habits cloud otherwise effective presentations.
• Persuasive presentations end without a specific call to action.

Program Outcomes:

• Use body language to send powerful and intended messages.
• Create and deliver informative and persuasive presentations.
• Organize presentations in ways that create lasting impressions.
• Manage and channel nervous energy.
• Ensure each presentation has a specific purpose.
• Manage audience participation using a communication cycle of speaking, checking and listening.
• Use a variety of presentation equipment.
• Handle difficult audience members.