Sharpening Your Presentation and Speech Skills
This hands-on workshop is designed to help professionals, executives, salespeople, teachers community leaders and others learn the art of speaking effectively. All sessions focus on creating, organizing, editing, rehearsing and delivering presentations. Group work in a supportive atmosphere helps each participant deliver clear persuasive messages to any audience. In-class exercises and videotaping help polish performance while reinforcing the student’s ability to command and hold the audience’s attention.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
• Explore thinking skills essential to giving good presentations
• Shift from self-awareness to audience awareness
• Develop new methods of creating presentations quickly
• Create value-added visuals
• Discover new methods of presenting material
• Practice those methods in on video tape
• Transform nervousness into power
• Get feedback in a supportive atmosphere
• Learn to be comfortable in the spotlight
• Learn to tell a compelling story
EACH CLASS INCLUDES
New concepts in presentation preparation
Practice with those concepts
Goal setting
Presentation pre-work
Breathing and movement exercises
Rehearsal
Video taped presentation
Peer evaluations
Self-evaluation
Business Writing,Period.
Internationally known writing consultant shows you how to vanquish procrastination, wordiness and time pressure while writing at school or on the job. The book covers:
tactics that get you writing immediately
strategies that help you write effortlessly
guidelines that tell you where to start and how to finish
questions that help you know your reader
methods that keep your reader reading what you’ve written
ways to organize your material
concepts for writing things people read and remember
tricks that help you polish what you’ve written quickly and easily
grammar you never learned in school
Writing well is easier than you think.
Business Writing, Period. is the book that proves it.
Misuses of PowerPoint
Avoiding the common presentation mistakes helps you deliver more effective presentations.
You'll learn to:
design audience-friendly slides
use special effects to your advantage
keep the focus where it belongs
If you like
Misuses of PowerPoint and want to practice your presentation skills, e-mail me at ktmaclay@gmail.com for up-to-the-minute information on private, semi-private and group classes.
