Excerpt:
Ever hear about maintaining “eye contact” with the
audience?
The way that 99% of us learned public speaking
leads to
not only increased fear and anxiety, but also robs us of our
ability to focus on our thoughts and delivery, too.
Instead, discover the simple presentation skills
that bond you to your audience while
delivering your message with razor-sharp precision.
Welcome to a whole new approach
to communications skills training.
In
as little as 1/2 day, you can acquire "The
Skills".
Discover how the
Lock,
Talk & Pause
method not only eliminates anxiety,
but
keeps audiences hanging on your every word.
Say
goodbye to fear, sweat, and "practice, practice,
practice"!
All
great speakers share a common trait:
Theylearnedto be great by
studying those that went before them.Although we are
sometimes enamored by the oratory skills of public figures, none was born with the ability to persuade or
inspire.
Instead,
what makes them good is their common desire to study and
learn the basic skills that set great speakers apart. JFK studied FDR and Churchill and
then put his own very human
stamp on their style. Bill Clinton studied Kennedy and
Martin Luther King; Obama studied them all, and when he
shares stories from his life, (and not using the tele-prompter!) you can even hear
tones of Ronald Reagan.
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Speaking
well is not about genes. Unlike basketball or the violin,
no inborn talent is required. Speaking well is a skill, comprised of
physical behaviors, learnable by anyone who cares enough to
succeed.
"And
now for something completely different..." -
John
Cleese
Forget
everything you’ve heard from your public speaking education
about eye-contact, body language, and voice - it’s likely
either old-school, or just plain wrong. Now, in one very
entertaining, interactive class, you will see and hear for
yourself what has been imprisoning the excellent presenter inside you,
and how you can finally break free of the common chains that
have limited the advancement abilities of so many businesspeople
for generations.
Participants come away from this
class knowing exactly why each of the behaviors they
employ when speaking causes a
specific physiological result, and how by modifying those
behaviors, they can change the way their bodies and minds
respond. We don't use pep talks. We don't tell you
to 'imagine' that you're feeling something that you're
not. We don't droll on about the power of positive
thinking, or tell you to "just relax". You learn that although you can't change the way
your body responds to certain stimuli, you can certainly change
the behaviors that create and magnify the stimuli in the first
place.
"We
show people how to look good, sound good, and
look
confident & comfortable just being themselves."
More
good news: you can also forget what they’ve always told you about “practice,
practice, practice”. Who today can follow “rules”
such as “For every minute you speak, spend 60 minutes
practicing”? A
presentation designed and delivered with our 3-Step method never
needs to be scripted or memorized. Instead, using our proven system
of public speaking that you will
learn-for-life, you will have the skills to look and sound like an expert, even the first time out of the
box! At the end of the day, participants deliver a
presentation they've never given before, yet look and sound like
experts doing so. Really quite empowering!
Have
a group to train but just can't get them out of the office for a
day?
Or looking
for professional presentation skills training just for yourself?
You
may wish to explore enrolling in our self-paced systems.
Work at you own pace with the knowledge-transfer components of the training, and then
enjoy the opportunity to perform the delivery segments live, via our proven
two-way
interactive video system, either alone or together in small
groups. Courseware includes the book
and DVDs above.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are
tasked with choosing amongst numerous presentation skills training firms,
here are some Non-Frequently Asked
Questions you should definitely be asking of your
potential vendors (and
writing down their answers):
1) How many years experience actually delivering business
presentations does our instructor have, not including simply instructing this course?
2) What techniques do you
teach to reduce speaker anxiety? (hint: if their answer includes
advice such as "just relax", or "imagine yourself
on a tropical island...",
we suggest you might want to look elsewhere - quickly!).
3) What personal involvement
does our particular instructor have in creating and revising
the course materials?
4) What is the copyright
date on the workbook? (We suggest having their fax the
copyright page, right now.)
5) When delivering, how far
ahead in the presentation should the speaker be thinking?
6) What is the Number 1 rule
for obtaining and maintaining audience engagement?
7) What do you see as the
relationship between slide design and delivery skills? (give
examples)
8)
Describe what makes putting on a live presentation different
from a webinar, and what special techniques do you train to make
webinars engaging?
9) Can you supply a list of
clients by whom our instructor has been invited back at least
five times? OK, how about three times?
10) How do you maintain the
attention of our participants throughout the training day? (If
the answer involves any form of sugar - or group aerobics - again,
you may wish to check elsewhere).
Bonus Question: How do you
handle participants for whom English is not their native
language?
We would be happy to
answer all of these questions, and more, at your earliest convenience.
