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Presentation Training

Presentation Training is provided across the United States and Canada. Participants have three options to attend and participate in our presentation training. Presentations are delivered via public open enrollment courses in all major metropolitan areas and are also available to be delivered on-site via private courses. The 3rd option is to attend Online Webinar Presentations Skills Workshops. Our face to face Presentation Training can be provided as off-the-shelf sessions, ready to be delivered to a diverse audience or can be customized to provide a tailored and personalized presentation training approach based on client needs. All presentations courses are limited to a maximum of twelve participants so as to increase presentation course effectiveness and provide the individual level of face to face or online coaching and interaction that is associated with the Presentations Training Skills Center.

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Business Presentation Skills Workshop - From 70 Slide Bore to Engaging Presenter in an Hour

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If you want to learn how to build engaging presentations fast, this could be the most important article you will read this year. Question: have you ever been asked to sell an idea or a concept to a bunch of executives who thought they had nothing to learn, or felt they had better things to do? It's not only frustrating it's depressing, isn't it? Most presenters think that adding content and jokes will improve the presentation situation; they won't. If you want to get better at selling your ideas you should first learn structure.

Eight years ago I was asked by CEO of a large blue chip organization to present my ideas on change management to the executive team of the business. I spent weeks, really, preparing and ended up with 70 slides for 45 minute slot.

Within about 10 minutes or the presentation starting I could tell that the audience were bored. Very soon after some of them started to take phone calls, and then they simply got up and left. My big opportunity was gone, and as you can imagine the CEO never called me back.

I didn't know what went wrong. I subsequently spent a lot of time learning presentation tricks and trying to be clever, but for the next three years I continued to bomb. Then I got lucky and bought a twenty dollar product from the internet, it was by no means complete but it taught me that my problem was structure.

It was as if someone turned on the lights. I started to learn, practice and develop my own systems for overall presentation structure, how to open presentations, how to structure stories, conclusions even individual slides. I soon realized everything was about structure.

I threw myself back into presenting, I now do around 80-100 presentations, including speaking at conferences per year. Here's a comment from last week.

"Thanks for speaking, I hope we get a chance to work with you again, you were inspirational."

I'm not that good at speaking but I always have a crystal clear structure, it makes me appear better than I am. Here it is:

1. Open with a controversial hook: "Most housing associations deliver poor service yet they have no idea how to fix it."

2. Pose 3 questions: "Today I want to address 3 questions:
a. What is the standard of service in housing association?
b. Why it's happening?
c. What can be done to fix it?"

3. Provide three answers for each question

4. Under each answer provide one piece of evidence "This graph shows it takes 212 days to complete a repair."

5. Highlight the implications of the evidence "Taking so long to complete a repair means extra costs are incurred to deal with additional phone calls."

6. Summarize and close with a call to action

I can now build most of presentations even those that are loaded with data, numbers and analysis, in less than an hour; and typically I get a great reaction from my audience. Maybe one day I will even get another crack at that CEO, if I do I will be sure to choose structure over style.

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