Presentation Training Skills

Presentations Skills Training Classes

Presentations skills training classes are provided across the country via public open enrollment classes in most major metropolitan areas throughout the US and Canada and can also be delivered on-site via private presentations classes. Our presentation skills training classes can be provided as off-the-shelf seminars, ready to be delivered to a diverse audience or can be customized to provide a tailored presentation approach or in house presentation training classes based on client needs. All presentations classes are limited to a maximum of twelve participants so as to increase the presentation training class or classes effectiveness and provide the individual level of presentation coaching and interaction that is associated with the Presentations Skills Training Center.

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A Complete Plan For Your Business Presentations Classes

Planning your speech or presentation involves putting specific information or content into your Presentations speech Development System. Together the System and the Planning steps create a modular approach to speech or presentation writing.

Before you open your slide software to begin your presentation or speech planning--STOP! You may choose to use slides as part of your plan, but the planning is not linear from first slide to last. To be successful, you can't do the planning through the software.

The planning/writing part requires that you use a writing surface and writing instrument. Paper and pencil/pen works, or a whiteboard and markers, or a flip chart and markers. You may like sticky notes to put on a wall. This is your choice.

My Presentations speech Development System has four parts: Call-to-Action, Key Points, Leading Materials and Attention-Getting Opening.

Call-to-Action: this is what you inspire your audiences to do after they have listened to your speech or presentation. Think external action, not internal mind-shifting. Every presentations speech must lead to an action that will resolve or address the audience's main problem. It should be artfully written and delivered with impact.

Key Points: these are straightforward statements that drive to your key point. They are short sentences that the audience could tick off their fingers later. When they are chosen well, the audience is totally ready for your Call-to-Action.

Leading Materials: this content makes up the meat of your speech or presentation. Included in the Leading Materials (LM) category are quotations, statistics, props, handouts, exercises, and visuals of all kinds, stories of all kinds, references to movies, music and other popular culture. They are called Leading Materials because you share them with the audience in advance of making a key point.

The sequence is LM 1, LM 2, LM 3, Key Point. When done well, the leading materials make the Key Point clear and indisputable. This is the opposite of stating a key point then following it up with justifications, which only makes you feel like you're climbing out of a deep hole.

Leading Materials give you the opportunity to captivate your audiences, keep things interesting, create a little intriguing mystery, and deliver very artfully.

Attention-Getting Opening (AGO): You grab the attention of the audience and keep it by getting off to a fantastic start. No boring "thank you" or "I appreciate this opportunity"--the audience wants to hear you speak about them immediately.

Here are 3 AGO options:

· "Imagine you are/have/need..."

· "Did you ever want to..."

· "There you are (in a setting) and X happens. What would you do?"

Make handwritten notes for each of these 4 parts. Write and re-write the notes until your plan takes solid shape. By notes I mean a few words that serve as a trigger for more elaborate thoughts you will need later. Right now you're focusing on the highest level content and order and flow.

Make sure your AGO ties into your Call-to-Action. Think about how the key points drive to the Call-To-Action. Sift through your mind and make notes for ideas about the Leading Materials--an image, a quote, a statistics, etc. You will insert the leading materials before each of the Key Points.

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