Speaking and Presentation Skills Training

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Using a combination of proven methodologies, this customised program enables participants to achieve exceptional presentation performance while maximising individual presenter strengths and personality.

In this 1-2 day workshop, participants will learn to:

• Be confidently prepared as they shave hours off their preparation time to produce the most effective speeches and presentations
• Remember their presentation without using notes
• Grab the audience’s attention with powerful introductions that gets the audience engaged, thinking and interested
• Never be phased by difficult questions
• Powerfully conclude their presentation to influence with power.

Target Audience

This course is designed for those executives who are in positions where influencing and speaking skills are key to their role (leaders, managers, sales team, delivery and relationship managers, teams and client facing executives).

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this program, you will:

Exude presence and authority:

• Power your leadership presence; establish credibility, trust and authority.
• Use your body language as a powerful and interactive tool.
• Control the space and environment to facilitate the audience’s journey.

Demonstrate control and confidence:

• Overcome nervousness, anxiety and distracting mannerisms.
• Take the stage with confidence rather than fear.

Engage your audience with purpose, power and influence:

• Your nonverbal communication equals 93% of the audience’s perception of you. No more distracting body language.
• Create an atmosphere through movement by using your body language, eye contact and gestures purposely for results (drive change, influence, or sell).
• Use posture, presence and body movement to reinforce your message.
• Adjust to the needs of the audience and personality types and cater to all learning styles, not just the smallest portion of our population (like most speakers).
• Project your voice confidently with charisma.
• Use silence like a pro.
• Create a clear structure for your audience to follow and to assist in the development of context for greater recall of your message/content.
• Have your audience wanting more content, more product, more from you!

Influence your audience through language:

• Change your listeners’ world through storytelling, using metaphors and anecdotes.
• Use a four-step approach to plan, design and deliver a speech or presentation to influence your stakeholders.
• Maintain interest and keep your audience fully captivated at all times as you bypass conscious resistance.
• Enhance articulation, pace and fluency.