THE SKILLED PRESENTER™ — TYPICAL 2-DAY AGENDA (MODULES 1- 16)

Our presentation skills workshop typically includes the following modules, along with a large amount of practice and written/verbal feedback.

Module 1: Getting Your Mind In Gear

• Organization, performing skills, appearance, voice

Module 2: Participants Deliver Warm-up Presentation

Module 3: Turning Nervousness Into Energy

• Includes taking The Skilled Presenter™ Confidence Test, and analyzing the results

Module 4: Ways to Practice

• "Speed-talking" to help your memory
• Focusing on timing during practice runs
• Evaluating yourself on DVD

Module 5: Learning About Your Listeners ("7-Question Game™")

• Addressing your listeners' perspective
• Methods to find out how your audience sees your topic (pro and con)

Module 6: "3 + 1" Presentation Format

• Organizing for structure, analysis and movement
• Sticking to the "Rule of Threes" when crafting your content
• Separating basic from advanced information

Module 7: Intros and Endings

• How to start and end succinctly
• "Announcing" and "recapping"
• Ending with a story, joke or striking phrase

Module 8: Participants Prepare 10-minute Presentation

Module 9: Keeping Eye Contact

• Eye contact as a powerful persuader

Module 10: Gestures

• Accenting your points with gestures
• Avoiding distracting movements

Module 11: Stance and Movement

• Standing tall, and moving with a purpose
• Showing confidence

Module 12: How to Dress

• How clothing and personal image send non-verbal messages
• Tips for media appearances

Module 13: Speaking to Listeners from Different Cultures

• Appreciating your listeners' cultural traits
• Adjusting your presentation to listeners not fluent in your language
• Explaining idioms

Module 14: Participants Deliver 10-minute Presentation

• Videotaped practice
• Includes receiving and interpreting feedback

Module 15: Involving Your Audience

• Polling the group
• Conducting "serial take-ups"
• Deferring to the audience
• Using quizzes and games to increase impact and retention

Module 16: Fielding Questions

• Techniques to "bridge" from questions to answers
• Identifying and preparing for commonly asked question
• Handling tough questions
• Dealing with interruptions or hecklers
• Ways to say "I don’t know"
• Drills on answering questions quickly and clearly when under fire