Powerful Presentations for Engineers and Technical Professionals
Summary
Master the essentials of speaking to groups. Prepare entertaining and informative presentations that drive action. Confidently present your ideas. Gain credibility throughout your organization.
How You Will Benefit
- Avoid boring your audience
- Deliver entertaining and informative messages that your customers and management will remember
- Rapidly prepare powerful presentations
- Speak confidently
- Think on your feet
- Know when and when not to use Microsoft PowerPoint to reinforce you message
- Apply proven techniques for capturing attention
- Organize your materials to logically build your case
- Provide the emotional content to engage your audience
- Effectively present a call to action
- Understand how to customize PowerPoint to rapidly achieve a winning look
- Dress the part
- Gain a reputation for communicating clearly and concisely
- Effectively answer questions and objections
- Abbreviate your message when pinched for time
- Sell your ideas
- Persuade others
- Improve your credibility
What You Will Learn
- Proven theories that get to the root of persuasive communications
- How the human mind works
- How groups think and behave
- How individuals communicate
- Learning styles and how to use them to your advantage
- The power of words
- The power of pictures
- The power of music and other sounds
- The power of motion and action
- The power in stories and metaphors
- How to set emotional tone and drive emotional gradients
- The 7 steps to preparing powerful presentations
- Steps to understand your audience
- Criteria to determine your message
- Methods to quickly collect and screen materials
- How to focus your theme
- Techniques to construct logical progressions and design emotional gradients
- The 10 features of great PowerPoint slides
- How to establish your brand
- How to determine the appropriate number of slides and material content for each slide
- What text fonts, color, photographs, clip art, graphs, tables, and motion diagrams work best for which audiences
- The 5 steps of preparing yourself and the room
- Why practicing your presentation is so essential
- How to achieve the best effect with dress and grooming
- A simple check list to line out the room and your equipment
- Methods to survey your audience
- How to take charge of any communication situation by capturing attention
- How to best present your material to make your point
- Easy methods to summarize effectively and make a call to action
- The 7 elements of your voice
- The importance of a smile
- The 12 non-verbal elements of your presence
- How to best use room lighting, props, and devices
- How to use and not use a pointer
- Methods to field questions, handle criticism, and hot tempers
- Insight into how to prepare effective handouts
- When to use PowerPoint and when to totally avoid it
Course Format
The Powerful Presentation seminar will include instructor led training and one-on-one coaching. Each student is expected to present a 10-minute talk or presentation and receive extensive evaluation from other students and from the instructors. This course is team taught by two instructors, and enrollment is strictly limited to 20 students.
Who Should Attend
Engineers, technical professionals, and managers seeking to elevate the effectiveness of business presentations. Professionals seeking a hands-on workshop to heighten the impact of verbal communications. Engineering professionals seeking to improve their credibility and needing to drive decision making and action through powerful presentations.
Schedule
Have us contact you for the next scheduled Presentations course
Accelerated Learning
Towering Skills combines a full suite of modern learning tools to accelerate your learning. We present the material using visual, audio, and kinesthetic elements so you see, hear, and experience the ideas and concepts. Our teacher’s toolbox includes the Socratic method, problem solving, simulations, role playing, debriefings, storytelling, music, ritual, imagination, and more.
You will enjoy the energy, knowledge, and wit of our instructors. They possess the towering command of their disciplines so they can personalize the instruction to fit your needs.
This course includes a pre-class and post-class assessment. You also enjoy the support of on-line resources that support your application of the material when you return to your office or jobsite.
What People Say about The Instructors
"A very good communicator. Keen attention to detail."
—— Vice President of engineering
"Well presented material."
—— Engineer
"Witty and entertaining."
—— Engineer
Instructors
Charles Maxwell has made countless presentations in his professional and private life. His 30-year engineering career includes work in operations, maintenance, research and development, business development, quality management, project management, and organization development. He presents high-energy, entertaining courses that provide the leading-edge techniques and tips. You can immediately apply these skills to your work.
Pre-course Preparation
You will be given access to an on-line pre-assessment tool, which will require roughly 15 minutes to complete.
Please bring the draft of a talk or presentation you will make in the near future. You can use PowerPoint slides or you can talk totally free of visual aids. Your presentation should run 7 to 10 minutes. The material should be important to you, but it should not contain confidential or sensitive information that you cannot share with people outside your organization. If you are having a difficult time deciding what to present, please contact us.
Bring
Please bring a laptop personal computer with Microsoft PowerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2007, or OpenOffice Impress. If you have other questions concerning computer hardware or software, please contact us at TechSupport@ToweringSkills.com
Seminar Hours
8:00 am to 12:00 noon
2:00 noon to 1:00 pm lunch
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Food
Complimentary beverages will be provided. The course will recess mid-day for students to find their own lunch at the many locally available establishments.
Dress
Business casual is appropriate.
Travel and Accommodations
If you need assistance with your travel, please contact us at Travel@ToweringSkills.com
Cancellation Policy
Because attending a seminar represents an important investment of your time and money, please contact us as soon as possible, if you need to change your reservation.
If you cannot attend a seminar, you always can have another person attend in your place without a penalty. However, please let us know. Also, please transfer any preparation materials to your replacement.
You can cancel a course up to 3 weeks prior to your seminar and receive a full refund or credit for another course. Cancelations made between 3 weeks and 1 week prior to the course will incur a $500 fee for complete cancelation or a $300 fee for rescheduling to a later course. If you cancel less than 1 week prior to a course or fail to attend, you will be charged the full seminar fee.
On-Site Delivery
We are eager to provide customized training for you at your site. Contact us at OnSiteSeminars@ToweringSkills.com
Satisfaction Guaranteed!
We guarantee your satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied with a seminar, Towering Skills will give you credit towards another seminar or we will fully refund your fee.
Cost
$1,495 for 2 days of intense training
$1,350 per student for 3 days of intense training for 2 or more students from the same organization attending the same event
Registration
Have us contact you for the next scheduled Presentations course