Public speaking and

Presentation skills training

communicate and influence

presentation and public speaking skills training

for greater confidence, engagement and influence.

Your team knows what to say, but struggle when saying it.

The three most common reasons why people have problems with presenting and speaking in public are:

53% of people report lacking confidence

22% don’t think they are engaging

19% say they lack influence

I show people how to build the skills to be an engaging influencer.

Poor influencing skills from the front of the room show in a range of ways including:

  • People reading slides to the room

  • People speaking super fast

  • Obvious nervousness

  • Staff taking to long to prepare simple presentations - and killing productivity

  • Super smart people not speaking up in meetings

  • Speakers delivering a data dump

These issues have big problems for your business. The first is cost. The opportunity cost of bringing your team together can be significant. If those speaking are boring, the audience won’t remember the message and it will have been a waste of everybody’s time.

The second is confidence. You want your leaders to feel confident when they stand to speak. When speaking, it’s their job to be a leader. They need to be engaging. If they are not, the audience will pull out their phone and engage on there. If the speakers are boring, they won’t be seen as a leader and the audience won’t follow them.

The final cost is reputation in the market place. When pitching for business it is critical that the speaker is engaging. If they are not, why would the customer listen? The customer has lots of problems requiring their attention and a boring sales person is not high on the list. After all, no customer has ever been bored into being.

 

The solution.

My Position | Engage | Influence presentation skills training program fixes these problems. It will show your team how to position themselves as a leader so they can engage the audience to influence them to their way of thinking.

This program is ideal for sales teams, leaders and industry influences who need to influence the market.

There are three areas of focus of the course:

  • The Speaker. The person at the front of the room. Do they know their message? How do they get their mindset right, control their nervousness and how do they position themselves as a leader others will listen to?

  • The Message. What are you going to say? What structure will you use if you are selling an idea or product as opposed to inducting a new member into your team? How do you tell stories? What should you put on the slides?

  • The Audience. Who’s in the room? When you know what their hot buttons are, you can put the right wrapping around your message so they want to open it and listen.

 

When you focus on the Speaker, Message and Audience, you connect with your audience in a manner that is congruent with who you are and with a currency the audience cares about. This makes presenting easy to prepare, easy to remember, easy to deliver and easy for the audience to receive. This is how speaking becomes easy for you and your team.

The final cost is reputation in the market place. When pitching for business it is critical that the speaker is engaging. If they are not, why would the customer listen? The customer has lots of problems requiring their attention and a boring sales person is not high on the list. After all, no customer has ever been bored into being.

 

Key take-aways of the day include:

  • Process to eliminate nervousness

  • Techniques to build engagement with any audience

  • Strategies to increase influence

  • A step-by-step plan for creating engaging presentations

  • Ways to stop using PowerPoint incorrectly

  • Strategies for handling questions

  • A process for thinking on the spot.

  • Hard copy of my book 'How to Write a 10-Minute Presentation in Under 2 Minutes'

  • Much much more.