Inspiring Presentations & Influencing

The art of presenting is one of the most feared activities that human kind can do. Actually public speaking is feared more than death itself! We all know however good we are at presenting we could get better and most of us don’t get enough practice to perfect the art.

There are a number of key elements in designing and delivering an excellent presentation whether you are looking to get a message across, influence thinking and behaviour, build enthusiasm for an idea, get commitment to buy a product, idea or person, build leadership status and credibility, demonstrate expertise or just share knowledge and understanding.

Presentations can be done in a number of ways and we all know the ones that work and the ones that don’t! There are a number of critical elements that can make public speaking easier to deliver, more impactful and a lot more enjoyable. We look at a number of theories to help prepare and plan presentations including the concept of “narrative intelligence” by Stephen Denning, well known structure and planning techniques used by public speaking agencies as well as NLP techniques to build on the impact of delivery. We work with a number of highly skilled graphic designers to create the look and feel of the most highly professional presentations once the creative content has been built if this is also what you need.

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There are some critical steps and we look at 3 key areas:

Planning and preparation

  • Inspiring Goal
  • Structure
  • Concepts
  • Messages

Engaging an audience

  • Story telling
  • Grabbing the attention of the audience
  • Getting a desired response and action
  • Reinforce with reasons

Design and Creativity

  • How to design and create the right messages and concepts together

Engaging Self

  • Confidence
  • Impact
  • Voice

Who is this for?

  • Anyone looking to design and deliver successful and impactful presentations OR develop facilitation skills. Whether you are a leader looking to develop credibility and influence or a sales person looking to increase your sales. The skill of presenting is critical for success in most roles.

Why is it important?

  • This is a critical skill as it demonstrates confidence, competence as well as the ability to communicate effectively and influence others. Once mastered this gives you the ticket to a whole new world of success, performance and results.

How does it work?

  • This programme can be rolled out organisationally, within teams or on a one to one basis. We have had huge success and results with this programme.

Expected Outcomes and Success Measures

  • A significant increase within any chosen area within the programme e.g. ability to influence, confidence, engagement of audience etc. We would expect to see increases of up to 100% in some areas – measure through questionnaire pre and post programme
  • An increase in success as a result of this new skill being implemented e.g. more units sold, higher success rate of agreements to proposals, behaviour of customers changed