Polish Your Presentation Skills  (1 Day)

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This dynamic workshop is intended for experienced instructors, facilitators, and speakers who want to sharpen their presentation skills. Polish your most critical skills and develop new ones during 3 videotaped presentations. Receive instant feedback and discover your strengths in a highly-supportive, non-threatening environment.

For experienced instructors, facilitators, and speakers who wish to sharpen their presentation skills.

NOTE: If you already consider yourself a good public speaker and you wish to become even better, this workshop is for you.

• Gives you the opportunity to focus exclusively on your presentation skills.
• Provides concentrated practice of your speaking skills in a supportive, non-threatening environment.
• Provides extensive practice so you will leave with polished presentation skills.
• Helps you become the best speaker you can be.
• Gives you direct, personalized feedback from a group of experienced speakers (including our course leader).
• Self-diagnose your current skill level.
• Gives you a personalized action plan for improvement of your skills.
• Allows you to share your expertise with others (and theirs with you).
• Learn by observing, analyzing, and discussing the skills of other experienced speakers.
• Provides you with a comprehensive job aid of speaking skills to assist you in your own development after the workshop.

• Create a personalized feedback checklist of presentation skills.
• Identify the traits of experienced speakers.
• Apply verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Monitor your personal characteristics of voice, eye contact, mannerisms, and expression.
• Diagnose your personal characteristics for areas of improvement.
• Identify techniques to improve your presentation skills.
• Create a personal action plan for your continuous improvement.
• Evaluate your presentation skills against personal and professional standards.

• Receive a detailed performance checklist of presentation skills that includes items on eye contact, voice, gestures, mannerisms, movement, and facial expression.
• Create your own individualized feedback instrument.
• Select key skills to work on and develop during the workshop.
• Deliver 3 presentations during the day to the group.
• Receive feedback on the skills selected for improvement from the other participants and from the course leader.
• Receive feedback on other presentation skills from both the participants and course leader on other items that may have been observed.
• Be videotaped during each presentation.
• Receive a videotape that includes the presentation, the group's feedback and the discussion that follows for all 3 presentations.
• Self-diagnose all 3 of your presentations immediately after each speaking opportunity using the videotape and feedback instruments.
• Receive written feedback from the group on all of your presentations.

• Focus on your current skill level.
• Concentrate on polishing your current skills and developing new techniques.
• Assist you in becoming a self-assured public speaker.
• Provide you with tips and techniques to create a confident presence in front of a group.
• Focus in-depth on your non-verbal skills.
• Concentrate on areas where you have the greatest potential for improvement.
• Provide you with a true "learn-by-doing" experience.
• Create a non-threatening supportive and congenial learning atmosphere.
• Instruct you only on the skills that require improvement.
• Offer suggestions for your further development after your final presentation.
• Provide a 1-year follow-up service for you to send us a videotape of yourself instructing. We will give you detailed feedback to assist you in reaching your potential as a speaker.

Take part in 3 videotaped presentations. You'll leave with a videotape of yourself instructing, PLUS recorded video feedback about your instruction, PLUS feedback sheets filled out by your peers and our instructor. Class sizes are limited to ensure maximum participation.