The Art of Persuasion Presentation Skills

Are you losing sales because of your inability to get your point across? Is your presentation engaging your listeners or are you reading a script from your PowerPoint slides with your back to the audience? Does you body language convey confidence and authority or does your non-verbal communication shout "I'm terrified and I don't want to be here"? Do you look and act the part, but lose your audience shortly after you begin to speak? Do any of these scenarios resonate with you?

The fact of the matter is, support for your project, idea, proposal, or even a budget approval can be won or lost based on your ability to present with credibility and to deliver your thoughts with style, confidence & authority.

Let’s face it; most jobs in today’s corporate world involve presentations – be it to clients, colleagues or to the management. As much we’d like to believe otherwise, the truth is, just as a book is often judged by its cover, we are more often than not, judged by how we say things rather than what we say.

 While making presentations to clients, management or staff may seem daunting, there is good news. Every person has the ability to become a great presenter. That means you too. Presentation is not just about standing at the podium and running through the slides. It is about engaging the audience and presenting your ideas in a clear, concise and persuasive manner. Having superior presentation skills will not only make you a more effective communicator, but will also enhance your credibility at your workplace. 
 
  In The Art of Persuasion, Present with Power, Confidence & Authority we cover all facets of the presentation process so that your audience will be open and eager to hear what you have to say.
 
We know that the fear of public speaking is big issue, so we start there first by giving you the techniques to overcome your fear, build your confidence and know how to take and address questions from the audience. Then we look at the content of the presentation. 

Put yourself in the audience's place. If the presentation is boring to you, it will be boring to them. Your role as a Manager, Senior Executive, Salesperson, Department Head or as an Entrepreneur is to motivate and incite the audience to act, think and feel differently as a result of what you've said so they will take some form of action. A persuasive presentation should change the emotional state of the audience so that they believe and feel that a decision must be made…..right now. We show you how to do this by teaching you the key motivators that get people to take action. 

 Then we look at how to deliver an engaging presentation. This means rethinking how you normally prepare your slide presentations. Moving away from slides filled with bullet points that become a crutch for you. PowerPoint should give you a different type of support and we’ll show you how to do this with visuals.

The next part of the delivery involves your personal style. Your non-verbal communication represents up to 55% of the message being communicated, so we address the base posture and what to do with your hands, how to use gestures as your travelling visual aids and how to use your voice for impact.
 
Your content, your personal delivery, your posture, your facial expression, voice, pitch, pace, diction, pronunciation of English words – these are the aspects which can make a real difference for professionally delivered presentations.

Start today. Take the first step to putting your staff members on the road to success to becoming great presenters. With new potential business at stake, can you afford not to take this step? Let’s talk. Call us at (65) 62419834. Let’s identify the gaps within your organization and work out a plan of action for making your employees great presenters. 

Everyone wants to hear the words, ‘Bravo. Well done’ at the end of their presentation.