Overview

What are powerful speaking skills? It’s not how loud you are or how much information, slides or charts you present. Rather it’s how quickly you can engage the audience; keep their interest throughout your presentation; and most importantly, be able to communicate important ideas, positions, or viewpoints in a way that your message, not only informs, but also motivates and influences people to take action.

However, powerful speaking skills do not come naturally to most people. And, even gifted speakers, follow a formula or roadmap: It’s called the “5 S’s” for Success.” These 5 speaking essentials are key for delivering impactful, insightful, and informative presentations. 

• Strategy: Understand your audience, who they are, what they need, what’s important to them
  
• Structure: Prepare your content: Title, introduction, key points, evidence, summary, ending
  
• Style: Deliver the content: Focus, body language, energy, word choice, pace
  
• Spark: Quickly build rapport, credibility, enthusiasm, with the audience
  
• Self-confidence: Project calmness, confidence, and competence
  
  

Why add storytelling?! Think of the last presentation you sat through, either in the room with the presenter, or over a video call. Now, try to recall the key points from that slide deck. Hard, isn’t it? But if the presenter told a story that highlighted and brought to life these key points, you would likely be more engaged and therefore better able to remember the speaker’s message.

This webinar will focus on each of these “Five S’s” and well as how to include simple story telling in your presentations. It will also provide practical speaking techniques to help the anxious beginner, who wants to be the best presenter they can be, as well as the more experienced, who wants to gain some new tips to incorporate their future presentations. 

Why should you Attend

Being able to deliver an effective presentation is a critical leadership skill to be successful in today’s workplace. It could be speaking to a large group of peers or employees; or addressing a major client or prospect; or even influencing senior management to fund a project; or some other situation that can impact your credibility as an effective manager or leader. While hard work and good ideas are essential to success, the ability to communicate those ideas as well as influence others to respond positively is even more important. 

That’s why great presentations incorporate storytelling techniques which make them especially engaging and impactful. Learn simple and effective story telling framework to inform, persuade, educate and inspire your audience

However, if giving presentations or speeches make you nervous, you are not alone. Jerry Seinfeld tells a hilarious joke about how many of us are so terrified of public speaking that we would rather be in the casket at a funeral versus delivering the eulogy. 

The “Good News” is you can quickly develop the skills to present yourself as a speaker who is prepared, poised, and projects that you know your “stuff”. 

This webinar will provide you with winning tips and techniques to conquer your nervousness; or the fear that someone might stump you with a hard question; or the anxiety that you may come across as a boring speaker who puts the audience to sleep; or other challenges that are holding you back from making effective presentations. So, instead of just talking to the audience, create great presentations that incorporate storytelling to become a great speaker.

Areas Covered in the Session

This highly interactive webinar is beneficial for anyone who wants to improve their speaking skills so that they can be a more effective leader and influencer. These 7 objectives will be covered.

• Recognize the most common mistakes speakers make and how to avoid them
  
• Examine the 5 S’s or building blocks of an effective presentation that will give the maximum impact
  
• Grab the audience’s attention, right from the start, with 6 proven and easy to use introduction techniques
  
• Learn how to organize your presentation with an impressive opener, then the essential main points, and a memorable ending
  
• Discover how to use appropriate stories to emphasize key points and maintain the audience’s interest
  
• Handle with ease those tough or “gotcha” questions, or unexpected situations, or difficult people who can distract both you and the audience
  
• Review 7 tips to enhance your presentation style, to lessen your nervousness, as well as build your self-confidence 
  

Who Will Benefit

• CEO's
  
• COO's
  
• VP of Human Resources
  
• Chief Learning Officer
  
• Directors
  
• Project Managers
  
• Operation Managers and Supervisors
  
• Team Leaders
  
• Human Resources Professionals

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