Configurable Training Modules For:
Effective Preparation

Confrontational Questions

Many business professionals feel that dealing with confrontational questions is among the most difficult of all presentation challenges. To overcome this we use positive messages, body language, using cushions to soften resistance, applying a good news format to create a positive slant, and exploring different response options.
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Planning Presentations

Professionals have to be confident when presenting to a buying team, executive decision makers, cross functional or intact teams, peers and subordinates. Planning elements include understanding the foundational elements of presentations, creating a template for planning effectively, incorporating attitude control principles to deal with anxiety, and analyzing and appealing to different audiences and audience members.
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Present to Gain Input

Many business presentations today are less about talking and presenting, and more about listening and gaining input. As the scope of your responsibility increases, as well as your number of clients, suppliers, and team members, you are more and more dependent on your ability to get your team partners to freely exchange their knowledge, ideas, experience, and opinions.
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Present to Inform

Presentations to inform are the most common type of business presentation, including training sessions update meetings, employee orientations, and briefings up, across and down. Informative presentations should include knowledge of the audience, convincing evidence, clear message, visual impact, and soliciting feedback.
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Present to Persuade

Most business professionals give presentations to persuade, either formally or informally. You find yourself in situations where, as a business professional, your goal is to persuade your audience to take action. Many individuals underestimate the amount of time that they spend in persuasive presentations. One of the goals of this module is to help every participant see how often they are persuading others to take action. Your ability to be persuasive in formal and informal presentations can be a significant factor in expanding your career opportunities in management, sales, or other leadership positions within your organization.
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Presenting with Visual Impact

With advances in presentation software and projection technology, creating visuals has become flexible and easy. Creating real impact includes selecting the right type of support, effective use of graphic design, using the power of color, and understanding the foundations of creative visual presentations.
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Team Presentations

Team presentations often include confusion, conflicting priorities, lack of focus, and problems with consistency. You will address establishing common purpose, audience analysis, visual factors, openings/transitions/closings, Q&A sessions, debriefing, and planning a team presentation.
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Vocal Skills and Body Language

Voice inflection, facial expressions, and body language can make up over 90% of your message. Presentations are strengthened when you improve vocal range, such as projection, diction, pacing, and pitch; and body language including, posture, gestures, facial expressions, and purposeful movement.
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