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Presenting with Impact for Executives

How often have you had to endure a presentation where the presenter just gave a lecture while you were expected to passively listen and perhaps take notes? Most people think this style does not really teach, inspire, or motivate an audience. Add the pressure of C-suite executives, governing boards, or a large audience of knowledgeable colleagues or experts, and the expectation for a polished and impactful presentation increases greatly. Anything else would fall short.

An effective presentation aims to change the audience and get them to think or act differently. The presenter should be able to engage them with a clear, focused message, logical arguments, and compelling visuals. Add a passionate delivery that evokes emotions, and your presentation is sure to impact your audience forcefully.

This two-day program is tailored for presenters looking to elevate their presentation skills, and polish their public speaking delivery, for greater impact and influence with their audience. It provides a guiding framework to design, develop, and deliver compelling, high impact presentations. Participants will be challenged to evaluate current skills in all presentation areas, and then use simple, innovative concepts to improve and enhance presentation structure, content research and selection, use of visuals, message delivery and presence, and engaging the audience.

Program Benefits

By the end of this training course participants will be able to:

  • Describe and apply the three core principles behind every high-impact presentation.
  • Structure a presentation and its visuals for focus, clarity, and impact, from the opening line to the close.
  • Visualize, build, and deliver a presentation with genuine engagement and passion, not just polish.

Content Structure

  • Hours: 15 / CEUs: 1.5
  • Self-discovery and critique
  • Group exploration and facilitator led discussions
  • Practical exercises
  • Public speaking and presentation delivery practice
  • Best practice theory exploration
  • Personalized 1-1 coaching

Who Should Attend

  • C-suite and senior leaders
  • Conference speakers
  • Anyone facing an expert room
  • Module 1: Presentation primer
    • Open with a 5-minute presentation on a current business topic — something you've given before
    • Review your self-assessment and identify your development focus for the program
  • Module 1: Presentation basics review
    • Ethos, Pathos, Logos (character, emotion and logic)
    • The three principles of presenting: focus (one core message per presentation and per slide), contrast, and unified messaging
    • Storytelling and why it matters, using the SOAR method
  • Module 2: Preparing your structure
    • Getting to the point, and knowing your audience
    • Researching your topic — citing sources, spider diagrams
    • Building the arc: a beginning that starts with a bang, a middle that introduces each key point, an end that closes with a powerful signoff
    • Visualizing your ideas: consolidate, edit, group, and link transitions
  • Module 3: Preparing your slides
    • What a slide is actually for, and why fewer words and more images wins
    • Backgrounds, fonts, and contrast
    • Bullets, quotes, and using animation with restraint
    • Complex vs. complicated — communicating hard concepts and simplifying data
    • Practical slide design tips
  • Module 4: Preparing yourself
    • Owning the room as the expert in it
    • Rehearsing, and planning for the questions that will come
    • Dealing with nerves, and looking the part
    • Attitude, skill, and knowledge — the profile of the perfect presenter
  • Homework from Day 1
    • Prepare a 3-minute review of a Day 1 topic, assigned in class (your second presentation)
    • Prepare a 10-minute presentation plus Q&A — 15 minutes total — on a role-specific topic for a target audience identified in class (your third presentation)
  • Review presentations
    • Review of Modules 1–4
  • Module 5: Delivering your presentation
    • Passion, proximity, and participation
    • Beginning with a P.U.N.C.H.
    • Building rapport and handling questions in the room
    • The charisma recipe
    • Closing with a powerful ending
  • Now it鈥檚 your turn: individual delivery
    • Each participant delivers a full ten-minute presentation
    • Every other participant scores it on a common scoresheet
    • Sessions are recorded so you can review your own delivery afterward

Instructor

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Amy Bandalos, CEC

Amy is an executive coach and certified talent optimization consultant with Workplace Synergistics, a management and organizational development consulting firm, working with small and mid-size businesses. She is a Human Resources professional, leader, and consultant with 30 years of experience working in large healthcare and service industry organizations including Vistana Resort, Nemours Children’s Care, and Florida Blue and its parent company GuideWell. Her career has been dedicated to helping companies develop and advance strategies for culture and team environment, leadership and employee development, high-potential talent development, and talent planning and succession. Amy is committed to helping leaders and employees achieve their maximum potential for today, tomorrow and beyond.