Are you making the most of the presentation medium to influence people and win their support for your ideas? In half a day learn to put together better presentations, faster. Join me for Make An Impact: Five Steps to Persuasive Presentations. This workshop will give you a system to plan and organize your talk and match it with simple, powerful visuals.
You’ll leave this fast-paced session ready to
- Act strategically in choosing your content
- Pour your content into a five-part template to give your talk a solid structure and smooth flow
- Be persuasive in moving your audience towards a conclusion or decision;
- Create visuals worthy of a graphic artist
- Make your key ideas sticky in the minds of the audience
- Meet the special needs and demands of executive audiences and
- Put together great handouts that people will actually find useful.
Plus, you’ll take away
- A manual filled with templates, checklists, guidelines, articles, tips and reading and viewing resources
- A laminated Presentation Writer’s Checklist
- A certificate of completion
- A subscription to Pen & Podium, a monthly e-newsletter that will help you stay current on speech and presentation trends
Who should attend this workshop?
- Anyone who writes, contributes to, manages or delivers presentations
Your workshop leader
Wendy Cherwinski writes presentations and teaches people to put together dynamic presentations. She has also lead workshops on presentation design at Macworld/iWorld in San Francisco and at the Ragan Speechwriters Conference in Washington.
Activities & Tools
Wendy illustrates points with real life examples, encourages questions and discussion and conducts hands on exercises to allow you to learn through practice.
When Can I Register for Make an Impact?
Watch this space for the date for the next public session. (Most likely Fall 2013) Or subscribe to Pen & Podium and be among the first to know.
Why wait? Book Make An Impact for your organization and I’ll bring it to you and your colleagues. Contact me for details
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Make an Impact: Create Persuasive Presentations - Full-day version
Do you spin your wheels when you’re trying to organize your thoughts or decide what to put on your slides? Do you fall into the trap of telling people all about a subject when you should be moving them toward a point of view? Would it help if you had some templates and guidelines to make it easier to produce a terrific presentation every time? If so, register for Make an Impact. You’ll come away knowing how to create engaging scripts and compelling slides that work together to move people to decision or action.
During this daylong session you’ll learn how to:
- Analyze your audience and use the information to make a meaningful connection with their interests
- Define your purpose and use it to choose the best content
- Give your script a structure so that it’s easy for listeners to follow, absorb and remember important points
- Create simple, compelling visuals using text, images, graphics and charts
- Use persuasion to move listeners towards a decision or action
- Make your presentations flexible enough that you can quickly customize them to suit different audiences and time constraints
Who should attend this workshop?
- Anyone who writes, contributes to, manages or delivers presentations
Your workshop leader
Wendy Cherwinski has many years experience as a presentation designer and workshop leader. She has also presented variations of this session at the Ragan Speechwriters Conference in Washington and at Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
Activities, Tools & Takeaways
Wendy illustrates points with real life examples, encourages questions and discussion and conducts hands on exercises to allow participants to practise what they learn.
Each participant also receives
- a manual filled with templates, checklists, guidelines, articles and other resources
- a laminated Presentation Writer’s Checklist
- A certificate of completion
- A subscription to Pen & Podium, a monthly e-newsletter that contains short articles for speech and presentation writers
Contact me to bring Make An Impact into your organization.