If you want people to
Care about your work
Invest in your ideas or your company
Sense your mastery
or
Change their minds…
You must engage your audience with your clarity, passion and presence.
This workshop enables you to:
• Quickly engage and connect with an audience of 1 or 1,000
• Tell compelling stories
• Use your voice and body language to energize a room
• Strengthen your language and eliminate verbal mush
• Compose and structure a presentation without pain
• Overcome nervousness
• Deal with difficult questions (there are always difficult questions)
• Be memorable
How it works
• Workshops are highly immersive and tailored to your company’s needs.
• Each session consists of a short learning segment that participants try out in front of the group.
• Actionable feedback is provided.
Syllabus
FAST STARTS
AKA HOW TO GET THE AUDIENCE OFF THEIR PHONES IN 10 SECONDS
•Question
• Story
• Problem
• Quote
• Surprising fact
• Contrarian opinion
COMPELLING STORYTELLING
• Use drama and telling detail
• Evoke emotion
• Surprise: Give your audience what it needs but not what it expects
• Arresting visuals or props
• Bumper sticker ending
THE QUICK PITCH
TELL YOUR STORY IN LESS THAN 1 MINUTE WITH THE S-O-C METHOD
• Solution: What problem/s are you solving?
• Opposition:
Anticipate and preclude any possible objections
• Commitment: Close the deal by requesting a small commitment
DELIVERY
USING YOUR VOICE AND YOUR BODY TO HOLD THE ROOM
• Mindful movement
• Word emphasis
• Vary your volume and your speed
• Dramatic pausing
POWER UP YOUR LANGUAGE
• Eliminate filler words, uptalk, and jargon
• Make statistics/numbers dramatic
• Use metaphor instead of long winded explanations
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS
• The ATM (Answer-Transition-Message) Method
WRITING YOUR PRESENTATION WITH LESS PAIN (There is always some pain)
