Delivering Powerful Presentations

Polished and Painless Public Speaking

Whether it’s leading a small brainstorming meeting for a staff of 5, or giving a keynote speech to an audience of 5000, confidence and competency is essential for business success. Unfortunately many people feel uncomfortable and even afraid when it comes to standing up and delivering a presentation.

“As always, your humorous and thoughtful approach to the presentation made this not only a learning experience, but enjoyable as well. All of the feedback that I have received has been very positive.”

Lora Colflesh,
VP Human Resources
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Polished, Painless Presentations is a fun, interactive and power-packed training program that teaches any executive, public covermanager or individual twenty powerful ways to make their presentations professional, polished and painless. Inspired by Keith Bailey and Karen Leland’s popular, new book, Public Speaking In An Instant, 60 Ways to Stand Up and Be Heard, and t aught in an upbeat and engaging style the topics covered include:

  • Analyzing your audience by assessing who you’re speaking to, the core working style of the audience and adjusting your content to fit the group’s needs and goals
  • Preparing your talk by addressing the key talking points you need to cover in a presentation and in what order
  • Going beyond the facts to a more fleshed out presentation that creates visual images for your audience as appropriate including using stories and examples to illustrate your points
  • Utilizing the top seven body language and tone of voice skills that help get your message across
  • Avoiding the mistakes that promote a negative message
  • Integrating technology and tools into your presentation to enhance your talk rather than to hide behind
  • Creating audience rapport through pacing and leading to engage and involve your listeners
  • Integrating Interactivity with five key activities to get your audience more actively involved in any presentation
  • Dealing with a Difficult Audience including a six step process to work with a doubter or disrupter in your presentation

This program is available in any of the following formats: half-day live training, keynote speech, or webinar.

For a detailed program description, click here to download a pdf.