Presentation Skills: How to Present Your Ideas with Power, Punch and Pizzazz
Presentation Skills is a time-efficient way to help your team members become more proficient presenters. A 60 minute overview of tips, secrets and principles will help even the most frightened presenter feel more confident the next time they represent the company at an industry meeting. A full day program, depending on the number of attendees, can give them a bit of practice using the skills and a thorough understanding of how they can connect with their listeners, and compel them to act. Whether they present to 2 or 2,000, this session will help them to present more powerfully.

Addresses these challenges (each program is designed to accomplish your specific meeting objectives):

• How to open a presentation with confidence
• How to connect -- even with a "hostile" audience
• How to be more persuasive and professional -- even if you're shaking in your boots!
• How to end powerfully
• How to keep the audience involved with your presentation
• How to use humor successfully
• What to avoid doing to avoid humiliating yourself and your organization

Participants will:

• Learn the fundamentals of a persuasive presentation
• Reframe the way they present information using the "communication inversion" model
• Stop self-defeating behavior
• Distinguish between closing and concluding
• Feel more confident and comfortable when presenting to 2 or 2,000

Who Should Attend Presentation Skills?

Everyone will learn something. After presenting for over 20 years, Sue has great "learning experiences" that she shares so no one will ever make those same mistakes. Sales people, managers, operations, field people... anyone who has to present their ideas to a colleague or customer benefits -- and profits -- from feeling more confident about their skills. A career booster and a strategic "weapon" to increase company earnings.

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High Impact Presentation Skills™
Enhance your influence and transform the way you communicate! This high energy and high impact workshop gives you the tools you need to feel more confident, be less fearful, and stay in total control when you are called upon to speak to a group. Whether you're presenting your ideas to 3, 30 or even 3,000, these advanced presentation tips will boost your ability to connect with your audience, handle yourself professionally, and -- most important of all -- get the results you want from the presentation! You'll leave this session energized with new methods to electrify your speaking abilities.

At the end of this session, you will:

• Use easy-to-apply stress busting ideas to conquer speaking fear
• Create a presentation that compels your audience to listen
• Open and close with power and professionalism
• Eliminate the nagging distractions that destroy credibility and audience trust

High Impact Presentations: Speaking to 2 or 2,000
Would you rather do almost anything than present your ideas in public? Have you ever wondered how you could enhance those presentations, overcome your fears, and truly connect with your listeners? You'll leave this fast paced and energetic presentation with over ten specific techniques to feel more confident in every speaking situation (whether to two or two thousand). Discover how you can present your ideas in a professional, powerful, polished manner and get the results, respect and recognition you deserve. Be ready to laugh while you learn how to never let them see you sweat!

At the end of this session, you will:

• Disarm even the most hostile audience member with one simple technique
• Use professional speaking secrets to calm fears and exude confidence
• Compel your audience to listen through the use of a power position
  and clear focus

Presentation Skills:  High Impact Tools to Deliver Your Message with Substance and Style
Have you ever prepared a presentation that bombed? Have you ever felt foolish or less than prepared even though you knew your topic? Have you ever given a sales presentation and lost them – and the sale? If so, take heart! You aren't alone, and there are strategies and processes to help you overcome any fears or failures. Attend this fun and fast-paced workshop to uncover the secrets of dynamic presenting. Whether you have to present to 2 or 2,000 people, you'll learn what you must do to be in control – and what you must never do! Learn to align your message with your listener's needs so that your next presentation not only accomplishes your goals – but makes you look as good, as smart and as accomplished as your are!

Attendees will:

• "Let go" of fears, concerns, and challenges that keep them from presenting with power
• Use principles of influence to compel listeners to listen and act
• Identify at least 3 self-defeating behaviors that destroy credibility and professionalism

"Sue, Thank you for coming to New Orleans and encouraging us to do something different. I have used your techniques in three presentations so far ... it really works! And you will be happy to know that instead of our boring blue power point intro slide, I used a beautiful photo of beignets and cafe au lait. The audience loved it and all wanted to share their stories and love of New Orleans food. You are the best! Thank you!!!"
Kelly Schulz, Vice President, Communications and Public Relations, New Orleans Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau, Inc.

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