High Impact Presentation Skills

Workshop on High Impact Presentation Skills

The power of the presentation is not in the Powerpoint. IT IS IN YOU.
Your mind, your knowledge, information, analytical ability and the ability to build a value paradigm for your listener.

When required or called upon to make a presentation, more and more of us have started thinking in the language of slides and tools - data, statistics, pie charts, graphs, pictures, photographs.
Then what is the role of the one making the presentation? Is he or she a redundant appendage, reading out texts, flipping charts, pointing to figures and pressing 'Enter'?
The presentation is a medium. The engineering of the message and content is the heart of the matter. And that calls for identifying and honing thinking skills that manifest into communication skills.
Communication is generated by thought.It intends to enlighten, inspire, clarify, inform, provide insights, incise, analyze, theorize and of course, philosophize. Such processes are possible only by the power of the mind, intellect, reasoning, envisioning and wisdom.
Does a training need analysis in existing presentation skills reveal shortcomings in one of more of the following areas?

1. Consciousness of what the listener is to take away from the presentation - concept of value.
2.Identifying specific values generated for listener.
3. Identifying measures of value.
4. Thinking in terms of a structure - objective / content / formulation
5. Formulating a delivery on any subject in terms of a print ready paragraph or passage. Essaying a topic.
6. Finding the appropriate word or turn of phrase.
7. Repetition - dwelling on and repeating a point.
8. Excessive elaboration. Rambling.
9. Voice.
10. Expression.
11. Pronunciation / accent.

Goals & Objectives of the workshop:
1. Understanding that poor communication is a limitation of thinking, not communicating.
2. Understanding language, its role as the creator and facilitator of the mind. Language a medium of thought, analysis and conceptualization.
3. Realizing that vocabulary reflects intensity and sensitivity of life experience, not knowledge of words.
4. Developing the ability to formulate precise conceptual and functional definitions.
5. Distinguishing between the reactive and proactive dimensions of the mind.
6. The nature of mental space - visual,aural, emotional and language driven.
7 The manner of receiving data through the senses, especially visual. Quality of present moment and space awareness.
8. Distinguishing data, information, knowledge and wisdom.
9. Understanding the process of converting base data, information and knowledge into secondary level of 'mental essays'.
10 Understanding the concept of value.
11 Identifying value for the listener and for oneself.
12 Identifying measure of value.
13 Formulating an appropriate heading or title as an anatomical formula for the body of the delivery.
14. Randomly enumerating points relevant to parts of the exposition.
15. Connecting the elements into a structure by connecting, sequencing,eliminating and prioritizing to generate value.
16.Arriving at a final structure for expansion. Placing points as 'chunks' in mind's eye as a guide for expansion and memory aid.
17.Expanding through complete sentences into a perfect, print- ready delivery.
18. Focusing on delivery elements -
a. Voice - How to access power, clarity and focus from within the body. How to use the voice on the telephone, conference call, microphone and public speech without amplification.
b.Intonation - Understanding the behaviour, semantic value and expressive value of rise and fall of pitch and accentuation of syllables.
c. Articulation - Understanding the phenomena of phonemes and their production. Identification and correction of deviations from norm. Articulation, accent and clarity.
19. Understanding body language as a function of being.
20. Managing fear.
21. Listening.
22. The power of inviting questions.
23. Understanding the power of an interactive style.

Registration- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM