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Presentation Skills and Beyond
In this intense, individualized workshop, professionals as well as nervous novices learn and practice presentation skills. Video recordings show growth as you move from planning to writing to choosing words to using visuals and gestures. You'll even acquire strategies to do powerful critiques of your own work and coach others. Benefit from private consultations with a director, an audio-visual expert, and a language specialist. (3 days)

Learn how to:

  • Overcome crippling fear and anxiety
  • Plan for timely, complete presentations
  • Use gestures and body language to convey confidence
  • Prepare and use different kinds of scripts
  • Create powerful visuals
  • Style for successful presentations
  • Receive expert critiques on video tape

Advanced Presentation Skills
An intensive, custom seminar in which experienced speakers refine and sharpen advanced skills. Topics include subtleties of gesture, languages of leadership and critique, image, rhetorical devices, visuals, timing, formal and informal talks, persuasion. We tape you several times and offer detailed critiques and suggestions. Includes in-depth script analysis, private consultations with a film director, an audio-visual expert, and a language specialist; follow-up video critique; and extensive materials. (2 days + follow-up)

Learn how to:

  • Consult with film director, drama coach, stylist
  • Analyze transcripts of actual presentations
  • Use the body language of power
  • Use various kinds of scripts effectively
  • Overcome individual presentation concerns
  • Gain power with rhetorical skills
  • Start on time, avoid rambling
  • Inspire a shared vision
  • Persuade friendly and unfriendly audiences
  • Give voice to ideals and values
  • Integrate the verbal and nonverbal languages of power
  • Offer humane critiques
  • Plan, time, and deliver formal and informal speeches
  • Use rhetorical and structural techniques for brevity and clarity

Presentation Skills for Women
Women hesitate to present: they're too shy, they're edgy about appearance, they were taught to keep quiet, they get too nervous. Yet presentation skills stand high on the list of career tools: women must learn to present well. Learn to overcome fear and anxiety, prepare and time every sit-down or stand-up presentation, gain confidence, shed weak language and gestures, style yourself for success, open and close strongly, and handle difficult audiences. See yourself as others see you, on videotape with supportive critiques and consultations. (3 days)

Learn how to:

  • Overcome reticence, fear, and anxiety
  • Benefit from consultations with film director, language specialist, stylist
  • Flower in a safe, supportive, delightful setting
  • Plan and control timing, language, and rhetoric
  • Use powerful, confident body language
  • Deliver varied talks in formal and informal settings

Presentation Skills for Senior Level Women
Skilled presenters learn to use language to convey a powerful, humane female persona, lead with charisma, motivate others, foster community and morale, inspire a shared vision, gain trust. Through extensive videotaping and individual consultations, you'll see yourself as others see you, deliver strong and kind critiques, shape a powerful image, craft talks and speeches that work for varied audiences, speak with and without scripts, design clear visuals, break through individual barriers. (2 days)

Learn how to:

  • Style yourself for leadership and success
  • Open and end major talks and speeches
  • Persuade others to follow you
  • Inspire a shared vision
  • Add powerful rhetoric, gestures, and body language

Presentation Media Custom Seminar  - Call for Information
Dogged by dreadful slides? Haunted by horrendous visuals? Stunted by stultifying presentations? Take one day to create concise, clear, convincing visuals that don't cost a mint and look professional, A global leader in audiovisual equipment and design teaches skills that will serve you well, no matter what medium you choose. Get a critique on your old visuals, and practice the new skills on an actual presentation. (1 day)
  

Learn how to:

  • Benefit from confidential critique of your visuals
  • Apply the principles of clear presentations
  • Design clear, compelling visuals
  • Select and handle different types of equipment