Presentation Skills & Public Speaking

Public speaking classes are the very essence of building stronger communication skills in NYC. Improving presentation skills and overall spoken communications brings greater clarity to your communications.

Clear communication leads to increased customer and job satisfaction, more productive employees, an increased potential for advancement, and a public perception of greater expertise.

Introduction to Public Speaking

an eight-hour training session for up to 10 participants

Make a difference in how you communicate with others.

Learn how to improve public speaking and use the power of the spoken word to move others. Through practice, speakers develop polish and finesse. As a result, their confidence builds. The focus is on how to organize ideas and communicate clearly, enabling participants to speak in a concise manner with conviction.

Master skills that are necessary in today’s competitive business environment. Learn to speak in a way that elevates you with increased confidence and enthusiasm.

Attendees will be able to:

• Manage public-speaking fears;
• Increase self-esteem;
• Become better at thinking on feet;
• Discover and minimize self-defeating habits;
• Connect with people, building a professional network; and
• Share ideas, inspire others, and impress the audience.

Advanced Presentation Skills

an eight-hour training session for up to 6 participants

In this session, you are in front of the room, giving your own presentation.

As you deliver this information, you are coached to improve your public-speaking style in these (and a few other) areas: body language, posture, word choice, confidence, eye contact, verbal tics/filler words, and volume.

You will be coached to overhaul your content and visual aids (frequently PowerPoint) used during the presentation. Consequently, you will learn stating your purpose clearly, reducing the amount of text on slides, making messages more user-friendly, and choosing the best graphics to support your message.

Attendees will be able to:

• Increase ability to motivate the audience by delivering organized and engaging presentations;
• Gain more efficiency by crafting carefully-worded, streamlined messages, free of verbal tics and filler words;
• Increase enthusiasm through focus on body language and stage presence
• Convince listeners with strong evidence presented in speech and visual aids.

Executive Presentation Skills

a four-hour training session for up to 4 participants

Executive Presentation Skills is designed for senior leaders who must present at the executive level.

The course provides a review and reinforcement of how to create, structure, deliver, and revise powerful and memorable presentations that emphasize storytelling and presenting with visuals. That is to say, this interactive program focuses on professionalism in communication.

You will be video recorded and coached using material gathered during group discussions as well as class learning materials. Coaching ensures elimination of presenter distractions.

Attendees will be able to:

• Present organized (technical) information clearly, concisely, and persuasively;
• Engage the audience in the most polished and professional manner;
• Use compelling media and visual aids effectively; and
• Accept questions with ease and respond with appropriate, well thought-out answers.

Sales Presentation Skills

an eight-hour training session for up to 6 participants

In our Sales Presentation Skills we combine our abilities to ask, listen, and solve for our existing and potential customers.

Sales and trade exist because people need and are looking for that which is better than what they have. Sometimes, they don’t even know that they have a need.

The critical piece of this process is “connecting the dots.” We must demonstrate that we have listened respectfully, and, as experts, show how the needs are tied directly to our answer. Just because they have a need and we have a solution doesn’t mean that it’s a guaranteed sale.

Connecting their needs to our solution is precisely what the Sales Presentation Skills class is all about.

• Research and understand each unique customer to demonstrate expertise;
• Conduct productive meetings to discover useful information to formulate the most effective solution(s);
• Propose plans that are fully aligned with the target’s situation and needs;
• Increase abilities to engage and motivate the prospect/client through compelling presentations;
• Convey emotional intelligence, enthusiasm, and sincerity to get client buy-in;
• Strengthen professionalism through dynamic story-telling, elevating the level of rapport; and
• Create positive messages even from negative, modeling a problem-solving, can-do attitude for the audience.