How do you master communication? How do you cultivate an empowering voice? How do you influence others to embrace your ideas and act on them? How do you inspire, motivate and achieve positive results while honouring other people's values and needs?

In many situations today, you are required to present - on the telephone, to your boss, to clients, to your peers, to your staff. If you want to do this effectively and get the right results, this is the programme for you.

If you want to influence and inspire others, you must think their thoughts, feel their feelings and speak their words. Once you can do this, they will become drawn to your ideas and influenced to act on your message.

This intensive, practical, two-day workshop is specially designed to meet all these aims. Designed for maximum skills practice, this programme is for anyone who needs to make presentations and communicate confidently. The techniques and strategies you learn will help you to move your audience - whether it's one or many - towards action and results!

Who should attend?

Business, technical and speaking professionals, executives and managers, CEOs, COOs, VPs, and anyone else who needs to communicate and present effectively.

Workshop methods

Discussions, Q&A, individual exercises and group work. There will be individual presentations, group presentations, role plays, selected recording on DVD, coaching and feedback from peers and the facilitator.

Workshop objectives

• Organise and give a confident, powerful presentation
• Construct, craft and charismatically deliver your presentation
• Reduce your fear and anxiety when presenting to groups large or small
• Create memorable hooks to attract attention
• Manage your presentation effectively from start to finish
• Add marketing appeal to your material
• Win over your listeners with a compelling message
• Acquire effective speech, voice and body language when presenting
• Re-ignite your career and gain a superior advantage
• Graduate from an ordinary to a powerful communicator

Day One

The Content and Structure of Presenting

• Open your presentation with energy, argue convincingly, and close conclusively
• Manage fear when presenting
• Discover and address your audience's needs and desires
• Plan and construct your message effectively
• Use examples to illustrate your ideas
• Structure your points logically, and get straight to the heart of your message
• Create a storyline that turns 'dull' into 'dynamic'
• Connect with your audience and be memorable
• Uncover your worst presentation habits and correct them
• Be an enthusiastic speaker who motivates and inspires
• Use relevant examples, analogies and personal insights
• Use a three-step model of problem, solution and benefits

Day Two

Delivery and Influence

• Add characters and dialogue to make your presentation come alive
• Use sight, sound and feeling words to enhance your message
• Increase your influence through vocal persuasiveness
• Be relaxed and controlled in your communication
• Use logic and language to make your message vivid and memorable
• Develop credibility, improved presence and authority
• Eliminate gaps and weaknesses in your communication
• Move your audience towards action
• Use visual imagery and storytelling to influence
• Make your voice more interesting and engaging
• Correct pronunciation, articulation, projection and speech problems
• Use confident body language