This one-day workshop targets professional staff in business, industry and government. It provides an intensive and hands-on study of presentation skills supplemented with video and audio examples, and uses videotaping of participants in presentation situations.

Topics Include

• Understanding Your Audience
• Getting the Audience on Your Side
• Developing a "You" attitude
• Preparing the Presentation
• Impressive Beginnings, Middles and Endings
• Delivering the Presentation
• The Nine Keys for Effective Delivery
• Masking Signs of Nervousness
• Using Visual Aids to Advantage
• Impromptu Speaking
• How to Speak Well on a Moment's Notice
• Using Brain Patterns of Association
• Keeping the Presentation on Topic
• Audience Reminders, Focus Questions, Repetition
• Handling Questions and Answers
• Seven Steps to Fielding Questions

There will be many opportunities for participants to practice and discuss their presentation skills and each participant will be able to keep his/her own videotaped presentation.