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Practice how to develop, design, and deliver a persuasive presentation

Number of people: Individual attention so maximum of ten participants

2008 Dates: June 24 and 25

Location: Boston by the TD Banknorth Garden

Presented by: Claudyne Wilder, President, Wilder Presentations

What You'll Take Away from This Seminar

• Confidence: Look and sound much more confident and sure of yourself.

• Less prep time: Save hours of time by using formats for presenting: for example, strategy recommendation, selling a product, convincing people of a problem, project update.

• Persuasive slides: Receive help revising your presentation slides.

• Increased audience participation: Learn to interact and engage with your audience.

• Improved personal style: Accentuate your unique strengths and learn to project conviction and enthusiasm.

• Excitement: Be excited about creating and giving a presentation—it’s easy once you use outlines for organizing your thoughts and templates for your slides.

• Excellent Laptop Presentation: Learn some tips and trick when presenting with a laptop.

Materials You Receive: Retail price of materials is over $180

Two books by Claudyne Wilder: Point, Click & Wow! A Quick Guide to Brilliant Laptop Presentations and The Presentations Kit: 10 Steps for Selling Your Ideas.

Job aid card: Laminated card summarizing the 10 Steps and 10 Formats from The Presentations Kit.

One CD: Slides That Win: Your Roadmap to Success. Receive over 200 before-and-after PowerPoint slide examples.

Participant Workbook: Over 150 pages of checklists, presentation tips, “10 Steps to Success” slides, and much more.

Videotape of your seminar presentations, including personalized comments from both Claudyne and seminar participants. You’ll give between seven and eight talks.

Action Plan: Claudyne’s personalized action plan will help you continue creating lively, persuasive, results-oriented, and dynamic presentations.

Redesigned PowerPoint slides: If you bring slides, we’ll help you redesign them. You redesign your slides for more audience impact and then practice with them.

Special PowerPoint images: You get arrows and shapes to use in your presentations.

BizPresenter: Special offer for BizPresenter’s photos and images. (See www.bizpresenter.com for what they offer)

Pre-work. Because colleagues and managers fill out pre-work questionnaires, you start the seminar knowing your strengths and areas for improvement.

Authenticity. You learn how to enhance your presentation style, not to copy a formula. Consequently, you come across as authentic and natural to an audience.

Visual secrets. You discover how to develop and design visuals that enhance and support your central message, making it readily understandable and acceptable to your audience.

Real-work practice. You give “real-life” presentations and discover how to use your unique personal style in the different types of presentations you give.

Organizing formats. You learn to systematically put together presentation content. Our formats save hours of data organization, freeing up time to customize presentations and rehearse.

Focus on you! You get lots of practice time. Claudyne models various presentation techniques, but you do all the presenting.

Ten Steps to Successful Presentations

The seminar is based on the 10 Steps to Successful Presentations, from Claudyne’s definitive text, The Presentation Kit: 10 Steps to Selling Your Ideas.

Step 1 Channel your nervousness. Practice ten techniques to project confidence.

Step 2 Define your objective. Use specific business organizing formats to save time.

Step 3 Organize everything. Sustain audience interest by cutting out unnecessary data.

Step 4 Create and use effective visuals. Use visual checklists to create focused slides.

Step 5 Energize yourself. Look, sound, and act like a pro in front of your audience.

Step 6 Motivate your listeners by establishing rapport.

Step 7 Conclude with conviction—and convince your audience.

Step 8 Manage questions. Use the six response techniques to answer difficult questions.

Step 9 Recommend next steps. Be specific and confident when recommending actions.

Step 10 Take the leap from excellence to art. Maximize your personal presentation style.

Seminar Activities

• Introduction Presentation. Use responses to your pre-work questionnaire to introduce yourself and identify the skills and knowledge you want to learn. Use a flipchart.

• General Format Presentation. Deliver a five-minute structured talk that teaches you how to make points in a meeting, write e-mail, or convince someone during a hallway conversation. Present the talk sitting down, using notes.

• Ten steps: Present a portion of the “10 Steps to Successful Presenting” speech using a laptop with a remote mouse.

• Ten organizing formats. Put together and give a presentation using one of the organizing formats. Choice of overheads or laptop.

• Dealing with questions. Deliver different segments of a work presentation and practice responding to questions and objections.

• Action steps. Share the next steps to continue developing presentation skills. Summarize Claudyne’s personalized action plan and the verbal and written feedback you received.

• Visual makeover. Use checklists to evaluate a presentation’s visuals. Make messages clear and concise by changing ineffective screens to message-oriented ones.

• Company presentation do-over. Discuss and revise a presentation given by a specific division. For example, revise the Marketing Department’s new-product presentation.

• Work presentations: Give various five-minute segments of a work presentation and receive feedback on your style and your slides.

Cost

$850, including all seminar materials and lunch both days.

Registration

To sign up, please send a check to Wilder Management Services or call or e-mail Claudyne Wilder. Also, feel free to call with questions about the Winning Presentations Seminar.

Follow-up

For an additional $250, you receive three hours of individual consultation time with Claudyne. You choose how to use it-whether individual coaching or slide redesign.

Claudyne Wilder, Wilder Presentations
57A Robinwood Avenue, Boston, MA. U.S.A. 02130
Tel: 617-524-7172   Fax: 617-522-0617
Claudyne@wilderpresentations.com
www.wilderpresentations.com

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